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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2913" data-source="post: 445934"><p>Trying Parted Magic on HBCD.</p><p>Set Controller to AHCI in BIOS.</p><p>Selected Parted Magic on HBCD.</p><p>On reaching desktop, Disk Health - RightClick & selected perform test - There were few tabs on the window. One of the tab had kind of disk summary that mentioned good health. Selected perform test tab - It had 2 options short & extended test. Short test mentioned 2 mins duration - Started short test - it stucked on 90% with 0 secs remaining for long time so aborted.</p><p></p><p>Trying disk eraser on desktop - double clicked disk eraser - a windows opened with few options - dont know what are the options but first option was selected by default so clicked ok - next window mentioned block erasing or something available select the disk from the option - selected Hitachi & clicked ok - command prompt like window opened - it mention will close upon command completion & few things are mentioned & mentioned warning sector size not probed, assuming 512 & at the bottom I guess disk erasing is going on with GB size increasing with app 40MB per sec & eta 2 hours.</p><p></p><p>Is the above fine?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2913, post: 445934"] Trying Parted Magic on HBCD. Set Controller to AHCI in BIOS. Selected Parted Magic on HBCD. On reaching desktop, Disk Health - RightClick & selected perform test - There were few tabs on the window. One of the tab had kind of disk summary that mentioned good health. Selected perform test tab - It had 2 options short & extended test. Short test mentioned 2 mins duration - Started short test - it stucked on 90% with 0 secs remaining for long time so aborted. Trying disk eraser on desktop - double clicked disk eraser - a windows opened with few options - dont know what are the options but first option was selected by default so clicked ok - next window mentioned block erasing or something available select the disk from the option - selected Hitachi & clicked ok - command prompt like window opened - it mention will close upon command completion & few things are mentioned & mentioned warning sector size not probed, assuming 512 & at the bottom I guess disk erasing is going on with GB size increasing with app 40MB per sec & eta 2 hours. Is the above fine? [/QUOTE]
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