Re: hard drives dying

From: "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Hello.
| Can a virus render a hard drive 'useless'? So that you can't boot WindowsXp
| or recover with any bootdisks?
| And can it be totally undetected?
|
| My laptop suddenly switched itself off and after numerous attempts just
| comes up with
| "No hard drive detected"
| A week later my son's tower PC (winK) was playing up, then one day would not
| reboot, saying disc sector corrupt. We had to pay an arm and a leg to a tech
| to recover all his work and get a new hard drive.
| Now my beloved PC is gone weird. Everything to do with start-up, taskbar and
| system is taking around 10 minutes. It's not hanging, it's like in slow
| motion.
| It takes 40 minutes to reboot.
| I am paranoid that it's also going to go. BUT the laptop was very old, my
| son's PC not as well taken care of, Both those machines were running McAfee
| 9 but new subscription were 2 weeks overdue.
| Whereas my machine is a year and a half old, it is treasured and has ALL
| the right protection, McAfee security suite, SpyDoctor, MSAntispy, (which
| have all come up with 0 when doing scans)
| I can't believe that it can be coincidence.
| But if I have all this protection, how can it be a virus!!?
| Any advice please,
| Jen
|

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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