HDD health

[europanorama]

hdd health of panterasoft.com is telling me that health is critically low( 1%).
diamand max plus 9 120gb-ata 133
are there alternative programs to countercheck?
maybe mirroring the drive to a 160 gb-drive would be wise. i have a second 120gb-drive and had the idea to synchro the two(using winmerge) and use the "bad" one as copy. this new situation changes all my tactics.
nb: i still have three 160 gb-drive-systems using one at a time in a ide-raid. all have win2k. 320gb-drive is waiting for xp-setup-also in a ide-raid with external swap-drive (80gb). thank you very much, friends.

[Sterling_Aug]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/

Try Seatools first and see what it says.

[Midknyte]

go with the manufacturer's diags first. This goes for just about any situation. Who knows better about their product than the guys that made it?

[europanorama]

i could repair 8 of 9 errors/faults with seatools. and i am now cooling it.... was 70 centigrade celcius! very hot.
forget the program i listed. its not reliable. others confirmed. when changing the to administrator-account: completely different output.

[BipolarBill]

If it's running that hot, it probably has a bearing failure and should be disposed of.

[Train]

70 C tells be a bearing is well on its way to the graveyard. Get a new hdd.

[europanorama]

which reliable hdd health-program do you recommend? hddhealth is not the right one.

[BipolarBill]

The one from the manufacturer is best - Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi or Samsung.

No program will be able to detect and report a bearing failure. You have to use your brain to do that. Errors and excessive heat makes my brain say "bearing failure".