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Existing hard drive diagnostic vs. new external
External backup for 2 Win7 home computers.
Prices are currently at a premium for a 2T 2 1/2" USB 3x external backup drive.
I will retire the XP machine soon that is being replaced by the new Win7 machine. The XP machine has 2 drives--one of which is slower than molasses and you can hear the thing churning away when nothing should be going on (indexing off).
I've never had much luck with diagnostic software--in particular PC Doctor when it was shipped with Lenovo systems.
Given the costs involved buying the software makes little sense.
Is there, in particular, hard drive diagnostic software that really can diagnose a problematic drive?
If I knew which drive was bad then I'd put the good one in a container and use it until the USB 3 externals come down in price.
Mark