I suspect one of my hard drives has degenerated. How can I get a log?

[Ravanx]

I suspect one of my hard drives has degenerated. I know I can check with chkdsk.Beginners Guides: Diagnosing Bad Hard Drives - PCSTATS.com

But how can I get a log of the problems? A humanly readable one. Not a log in machine or code language.

I don't believe that chkdsk can fix my hard disk physically. All it is doing is recovering data that has already been corrupted isnt it?

I want to prevent corruption in the first place by finding out if my hard disk is failing... and discarding it away if it is.

 

[Bill2]

Hard drive diagnostic tools.

Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.