hard disc health checks

[Steffen Kluge]

Hi,
in addition to what others have said, I'd like to point out a disk test
utility I stumbled across the other day and found quite nice. It's made
by Hitachi and is called Drive Fitness Test. You can download a bootable
floppy or CD image from
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm.

It requires booting the image of course, so you'll have to take your
machine down.

Cheers
Steffen.