need a program to scan usb hard drives for defects.

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Hey Guys.

I need a good program that will scan usb hard drives for defects quickly. The windows scandisk thing scans the disc in like two seconds and says its good. I doubt its doing anything but reading the smart log. If you do the search for bad sectors thing, it takes over an hour per drive. (200gb externals).

Anybody know of a free program that works better than windows scandisk and faster?

Thanks,
J

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what OS, XP? Scandisk has a surface scan, that usually works pretty well.

I just use this dell/EMC array scanner, I don’t know of what else to use, sorry.

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yep its for xp…

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if you can obtain Norton’s disk utility it will perfrom much more thorough scans. But for a 200gb drive expect it to take forever. Thats a lot of sectors to check individually.