Comments on: 4 Tools To Predict and Prevent Hard Drive Failure

By: Windows 7 data recovery

Windows 7 data recovery — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:55:56 +0000

You have provided efficient tool that help predict and prevent data hard drive failure but still it is not completely inevitable, so use of Windows 7 data recovery software sometimes becomes essential in order to get the deleted or lost data back.

By: Tokey

Tokey — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:26:03 +0000

Peter, just because hard drives CAN fail without warning, doesn’t mean that its at all common. While SMART is indeed unreliable and you should ALWAYS backup, for the most part, hard drives do give warning before failing (clicking, slow response time, etc). The only time, actually, when you likely wouldn’t have any warning is in the event the HDD’s control board failed. As control board failure is probably the most unusual HDD failure mode, i personally find it prudent to use these tools.

By: windows 7 tutorial

windows 7 tutorial — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:44:50 +0000

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windows 7 tutorial — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:43:43 +0000

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By: Many

Many — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:20:55 +0000

Very helpful!

By: chaplain

chaplain — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:16:57 +0000

thanks it worked to fine out if its ok and it was thanks=chaplain

By: Spuffler

Spuffler — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:27:35 +0000

Sad to say this, Seatools USED to fit on a floppy disk.
Then, it seems that in what may have been one major revision, Seagate, in a moment of sheer insanity, not only abandoned the small sized executable to create a larger Windows program, but Seagate also forces you to have a fully functional .NET environment as a prerequisite for using the new Windows executable. The change to Windows executable was, by itself, enough of a major blow against storage on floppies, but also forcing twenty odd megs of .NET as well? Where am I going to fit THAT monstrosity? On my hard disk? How many PCs have more than one hard disk? Not too many, so the very drive that is going to be tested is going to host this huge test suite because Seagate ‘updated’ these tools. And what consumer starts testing BEFORE the drive starts acting up? So lets put this scenario in order: I wait until I suspect hard disk is acting up. I download Seatools because I own a Seagate drive. Seagate says I also have to install Microsofts .NET framework, so I install .NET first, then install Seatools. By now, the hard disk has over 60 megs additional software (2 downloads, then 2 installed programs), and NOW I can start testing. Used to fit on a floppy.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:56:18 +0000

Thanks for the info

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:48:48 +0000

that’s to dumb
just do a a checkdisk and pay atention to the results, that’s all
do it every week and your hdd will be happy and run a bit faster
you can also use it in dos just do chkdsk drive letter:\

By: MrJim

MrJim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:14:03 +0000

SpinRite works really well for offine maintenance and recovery. Intended to run from boot meda and small enough to fit on a floppy. Runs on any x86 based system. (Win, Linux, OSX, TiVo, …) Doesn’t even need to understand the filesystem. Been around for years and it just works.