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HardDrive check/test software that actually works?

Sep 26, 2011 6:41AM PDT

I was recommended by few people that Microsoft's disk utility test software is the best to use, but I did a test with it it didn't find any error or problems but I have files and folders that don't want to get copied because they got corrupt or something.

which software actually finds the problems on hard drive? both files and physical hd

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Possibly two different things.
Sep 26, 2011 9:23PM PDT

A corrupt file or folder is different to 'bad sectors' which is what the Windows Check Disk utility checks for.

So first of all I would look for other causes. It's difficult to say what though because you give no details of your system or of the problem.

Mark

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Want to see something really scary?
Sep 27, 2011 4:39AM PDT