[TriLUG] Re: hard drive error/meltdown imminent

Shea Tisdale shea at sheatisdale.com
Mon Dec 1 17:32:20 EST 2003


The maxtor program is available with as a boot floppy...and it even uses
a Non-MS version of DOS...

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm



> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Kojetin
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:26 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Re: hard drive error/meltdown imminent
> 
> quick question ... is there a linux-friend program for checking hard
> drives?  or a way to boot from a windows boot disk or windows XP
> install cd to run the maxtor hard drive checking program (it turns out
> my drives are maxtor drives).
> 
> thanks,
> doug
> 
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