How To Check Brand New Hard Disk

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mwvirk

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Hello friends,

I got some doubt and need your help to find out some solution:

I want to buy an additional HD for my desktop C2Q.

My friend is giving me 1500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 32MB cache HD on just half of the actual (market) price.

He said he brought it and somehow his PC was not supporting this HD and he need money and wants to sale it.

I’m little bit confused and not sure. Sometime thinking that there might be some problem and he just wants to get rid of this.

I want to know how I can check if this HD is new and was not used at all.
Or if he used it then how I can check that HD is 100% ok and reliable and it will not give me any problem.

At last I will say that my friend is giving me as a brand new HD but for some reason I cannot take any risk and want to be sure before I take it and use it.

NOW:

>>> i only want to know if this hard disk is 100% free of all fault/errors.

>>> i was reading in another forum that seagate 1.5tb & 2tb drive are having some problems and its freezing - seagate later release some firmware updates to fix this problem.

Need your help. Thanks.
 
I know the 2TB seagate drives brick at times and they just released a firmware to help that.
You could try HDTune and see what it gives you.
But it is strange his computer won't take it...never heard that unless someone was trying to raid...
 
You can download the software at Seagate. click support. it will check.
Then again if there is doubt then leave it alone then just buy a new one.
unless your saving money.
 
hey, get your friends hard drive. Plug it into your computer. Run a program that tests for errors and other stuff. Because I bought a hard drive locally one time and it came out to be a bad one. It was a 160gb raptor for $30. :mad:
 
tremmor said:
You can download the software at Seagate. click support. it will check.
Then again if there is doubt then leave it alone then just buy a new one.
unless your saving money.
Click to expand...

Yep, SeaTools is a great little program to diagnose Seagate HDs
 
Huh.. I just assumed that it would be proprietary software and ignore drives other than Seagate, but that's what I get for assuming. Good to know.
 
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