testing hard drives

[Heeter]

Hey all,

I would like to know if there is something out there that I can test the health of my two 320gig seagates.

I downloaded their seatools iso from their site, and burned up a cd, but sadly realized during the process that seatools requires PS2 mouse/keyboard. I tried my little usb2ps2 connectors and it wouldn't work.

I would need something to boot from cd like memtest86 because I have no OS's on the HD's and I am building a new Linux workstation for myself.

Thanks

Heeter

 

[LordOfLA]

strange - I can use seatools for dos with my usb keyboard and mouse... get a hold of hirens boot cd and use the tools on that

 

[Heeter]

Great thanks for the recommendation.

I have heard of Hirens boot cd, but never had a chance to try it.

Heeter

 

[Xie]

I use USB mouse/keyboard (through a KVM even) and "SeaTools for Windows" works just fine (don't have to leave Windows). I've also used the CD version with USB mouse/kb and it worked fine.

 

[X-Istence]

The Ultimate Boot CD is good too, it contains all the various tools on the CD and I have never had issues running any of the tools using a USB keyboard!

 

[Heeter]

Maybe it is just this M2A-VM Asus board that I have.



Heeter

 

[Dark Atheist]

check in the bios, i had to turn on usb for dos on one board i had windows it was fine

 

[American Zombie]

Some older boards do not support USB in dos unless you load the driver.