Hard drive test?

I've got a hard drive on a laptop that has failed once but started
working again. That gave me time to do a backup.

I've got 30 days left on my warrantee and I'd like to get it to fail
permanently if it is going to do so.

Is there a good drive stress test that includes some sort of retry
counter that I could use for this?

tnx
jim

On 9 Jul 2006 16:35:43 -0700 in comp.periphs, jim (AT) jtmiller (DOT) com wrote:

I've got a hard drive on a laptop that has failed once but started
working again. That gave me time to do a backup.

I've got 30 days left on my warrantee and I'd like to get it to fail
permanently if it is going to do so.

Is there a good drive stress test that includes some sort of retry
counter that I could use for this?

Power cycles and surface tests may be your best bet if there's no way
of reproducing what caused it to fail before.

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