Drive manufacturer furnish diagnostic software for checking their drives. For example, Seagate has SeaTools and Western Digital has Data Lifeguard Tools.. If you did not get a disk containing such tools when you got your drive, Go to the Support section on the manufacturer?s web site and download them. The download file should contain instructions for their use.
Modern drives include S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. If your system also supports this, and it is turned on in your BIOS, you should be warned of impending hard drive problems. You may want to check on this. You will still need the manufacturer?s tools for through checking if a problem is reported. These will probably include a utility for checking the SMART status of the drive.
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Frank
i am on winxp pro have 2 drives 1.3 ghrz emachine upgraded my powersupply 6 months ago evry now and then for the past 6 months my computer makes this shutdown sound like one of the drives is shutting down i used to have a drive that did that but it would freeze up ect. just that im not freezing up i dont notice any lagg or hang and it happens at anygiven time when i download torrents,playing games to when i have nuthin runnin but the basics processes. i was also wondering because i have an os on both drives winxp pro. could the powerschemes option on my slave,to shutdown the hard drive after x amount of hours. could my slave be shutting itself off or anyother ideas it might be... also i just replaced the drive ribbon and cd&dvd drive ribbon
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