testing a hard drive with command line

[Maze]

hello dear php-experts


how to testrun a drive with command-line?

note: i had several blank screens during the last week

does this somewhat have to  do with the hard-drive?

which tests can be done?

[QuickOldCar]

Sure is not power saving mode or screensaver?

You can set them all to never in advanced power settings, this goes for harddrives or any other device as well.

 

Blank screens usually indicates a power issue or video problem.

If you unplug the drive the machine should boot and see something on screen.

 

Unplug all additional devices plugged into the motherboard and see if can boot it.

Test one memory stick at a time

If you plug something in such as a cdrom or harddrive and pc suddenly fails you found your issue.

 

You can try doing a check disk on a drive

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd637756.aspx

 

You can't run this on a drive that is currently in use

Try pressing F8 while booting and select Commannd Prompt

This is a good command that can repair messed up os or lost files, tries to repair and fix bad sectors.

chkdsk /r C:

you can also try this within windows

search for cmd (command prompt)

right click the icon and select "run as administrator"

type:

sfc /scannow

A lot of times smart status fails on a drive, you can disable smart status checking in bios

Edited January 1, 2015 by QuickOldCar

[Maze]

hello dear quick old car

 

many many thanks  great to hear from you!!!

 

find it great to see your hints

welll - heard about the smartmontools

 

quick old car: i will test your tipps -

 

probably i can also test smarttools - btw: Is this shipped with the openSUSE-linux?

[QuickOldCar]

What I suggested was for windows, not linux.

 

To troubleshoot the pc on boot can unplug any devices and check still.

 

For linux harddrive tools

sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | less