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Ontrack Easyrecovery Warnings
Name: Atom222 Date: January 19, 2006 at 07:19:45 Pacific OS: WinXP SP2 CPU/Ram: PentiumR 4 CPU 1.70G, RA
Comment:
Anyone using this software to test hard drives? Both my three year-old 40gb HD were tested to be having critical structure errors and this was one of the reasons why I bought a new 160gb Hitachi. Out of curiosity I used Easyrecovery to test the partitions and to my surprise, it also warned that all the partititons in the new Hitachi drive failed and have critical structure errors. Can the results be trusted? This caused me to run drive further tests with Hitachi test tool and also Spinrite and both reported nothing wrong with the disk. Now I'm wondering which to believe.
Name: Stryker Date: January 19, 2006 at 15:21:04 Pacific
Reply:
If spinrite says it’s ok, that is the one to trust over the other. Also, since the manufactures test tools say its ok and spinrite says it’s ok, I’m willing to bet the drive is fine.
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Response Number 2
Name: lukeles Date: January 20, 2006 at 00:17:48 Pacific
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En , I trust Hitachi test tool. EasyRecovery can only examine generic problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: Atom222 Date: January 20, 2006 at 01:23:27 Pacific
Reply:
Okay, I'mn going to junk that Easyrecovery. I've only got a few more summers to live. Not going to waste more precious time, booting and reboting and chkdsking too. :-)
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Flash utility version?
