Here's the thing. A friend gave me a hard drive, it's sort of old, but we think it works. I want to make a clean install of my windows, and I wanted to try it on this new, bigger disk. However I don't know if it's bust or if it will gimme the blue screen of death, if it has bad sectors and etc... Is there a program I could use to test this stuff out, bad sectors, reliability, read speed, etc, and make sure I'm not gonna regret installing my OS on it? Thanks Aphis
download the hd's manufacturer diagnostic software. also format the hd will tell you if have bad spots or not but do full format not quick format.
