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Corrupt Vista files, System Restore does not work, Tweaking hangs at Start

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Boggin:
I have Toshiba laptops and have never had much faith in the built diagnostics.

Go back to Reply #2 where you will see I've already linked you to a HDD diagnostic tool which includes a tutorial - Seatools for DOS.

Shane:
Those tests never show what condition the drive is actually in. I just helped a user who had a pass as well but when we looked at the smart status on each drive it showed the drives where having horrible problems and going to die soon. But because the drives where still working they got a pass, even though they where on their last leg.

I used ASTRA32 for Windows from here
http://www.sysinfolab.com/download.htm

When I used it on the users machines i went to the drives and looked at the smart status for each one, seen a ton of bad sector relocations and that the smart status of the drive was very poor.

See if that tool can give you the missing information about how the drive is doing that the test did not give you :wink:

Shane

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