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Subject: HD Benchmarking - from a bootCD
From: Jon
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:52 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt

All,

Can anyone recommend a hard dsik testing utility that I can run from a 
boot CD?

The hard drive in question is making more noise than I think it should, 
windows XP took over an hour to install on a 2.6GHz machine with 2Gb of 
RAM (memtested to 20 passes, no errors).

When I hooked the suspect drive up to my machine via a SATA>USB2 adapter 
it kept stuttering every second. When I tried to copy a 1Gb file to it I 
started getting warnings about "delayed write fail, the data has been 
lost" in the system tray. Never seen that before but it doesn't sound 
very promising!
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Regards
Jon

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