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It prompted me once for each sector, and, after a few of those and not wanting to press Skip thousands of times, I pressed Skip All. During cloning Acronic identified some sectors that were bad and couldn’t be copied. I have cloned the disk to a new WDC WD20EADS-00SB0 (SATA) using Acronis TrueImage downloaded from WD. I have backed up all my personal data, so that is not a concern. This drive holds my boot sector, C: drive (OS and personal data), and D: drive (factory system image).

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Some of those files are in the Windows and System32 folders. Event Manager describes several instances of repeatedly trying to access certain files.LifeGuard Extended Test finds bad sectors.

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I suppose I would rather be at Linustech.I have a WDC WD10EADS-65M2B0 (SATA) drive that is experiencing problems: The reason I ask here rather than Googling is because I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that there are many other people like me who either fix and build computers for a living, or have a lot of experience with testing drives and could give an answer based on years of experience with drives. If you have been using something better that can do the same (no WIFI quick fitness, performance test)- I welcome your suggestion. I believe I asked for a suggestion, rather than a rhetorical question. I am not a perfectionist.įor the remaining 15% - I need a couple of other similar reliable programs. Whether it's great or not depends on whether you are a perfectionist or not. I have found it to be highly accurate in predicting which drives are good and which will soon fail. Speedfan (I used it for years) can examine 85% of drives I plug in via SATA USB adaptor without the need for WIFI (online tools). Well then it’s not such a great utility is it I could really appreciate if other members could brainstorm this too. Maybe it's because they have no solution, after all - I usually can solve 95% of problems on my own - ones I can't probably either have no solution or are very counterintuitive which may need more people to look at them to maybe have that 'aha' moment. Normally - I very rarely get my inquiries solved here. So another question I have is:Ĭould it be the way I formatted this drive prevents it from being detected by Speedfan/Toshiba Utility? Would it perhaps need some kind of altered formatting? What do you think? Please bear with me, I really need to get to the bottom of this. Refreshing in Device Manager doesn't work.

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Trouble is - it's hard to do this every time because I go through a bunch of drives, and with my motherboard I need to restart the PC every single time I connect a drive through SATA directly. It is entirely possible that I would have to connect the drive through SATA directly to my board to test it with Toshiba utility. If you know of any such program - I would appreciate a suggestion.Ģ. Returning items to the store every time is very costly when your time begins at $35/hr, you lose clients by not being able to respond quickly enough. I really need this figured out because I desperately need a quick method for testing drives I buy IN THE STORE the way Speedfan does it. test that detects all or most drives without the need for WIFI. Something similar to Speedfan quick S.M.A.R.T. characteristics for all drives, not just Seagate or WD or Hitachi or Toshiba. This is why - in both my questions I asked, it is imperative that I find a good freeware generic program besides Speedfan to test the S.M.A.R.T. But the strategy of just buying and installing it could easily backfire. The Toshiba utility is like that too - in the past it failed to detect a number of perfectly good Toshiba drives which I later installed on my customers' laptops and had nothing but good reports from them over the years). It doesn't with some drives, I have no idea why. My problem is just that Speedfan does not detect it. (I have a couple, I fix PCs for a living). My cables are fine, I already thought of that, and tried another SATA to USB connector. It came from sealed bag un-formatted and I formatted it in MBR. I quote myself earlier: 'Why is it not being detected when Windows and BIOS can see it just fine?' Yes. I don think you understood me correctly. If it doesn't see that drive either, probably a bad drive although you should test the power and data cables just in case.ĭoes the drive show up if you open a command prompt window and type diskpart, and then list disk? It should show up under diskpart even if it uses a format that is Windows incompatible or corrupted. The SeaTools for Windows that I linked in your post for testing your Seagate external will work on it and is free.