Free hard drive diagnostic tool?

I am looking for software (free or not) that I can download into usb flashdrive. The windows will not start on my laptop. First order of checking seems to be to check the hard drive but this computer's bios does not have chkdsk option.
I want to use flashdrive in case this problem is due to virus and I don't want to connect it to my pc. Thank you in advance for any help.

boot to a diagnostic cd/dvd which is read only and cannot be infected. There are many out there. The Ultimate Boot CD, BART PE (preboot environment) and may others. You can boot the system from the disk and run chkdsk /f. You can do the same thing essentially with a Linux Live CD like Knoppix.
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Does any one have a recommendation for a Hard Drive recovery tool?
My brothers external Lacie 200MB Firewire drive has crapped out. He has all his family movies (iMovie projects) stored on it so he really needs to recover the files if possible.
I have the drive now and have hooked it up to my machines and it is definitely in bad shape. At this point I can see the drive in the finder, but it doesn't appear to contain any files or folders. It also shows up in Disk Utilities, but a Verify Disk doesn't reveal any problems (and running "Repair Disk" returned "No repairs were necessary, the volume seems to be OK").
At this point the disk just appears to be empty. I am running a deep scan with Stellar Phoenix right now. Any suggestions on the best OS X recovery tools.
Thanks
EDIT:
oh, and the disk appears to be formatted HFS+
I was thinking about yanking the drive and installing it internally to the ide bus - don't know if this would make a difference.

Well, that’s a lot of interesting advice.
The first thing to do is NOTHING! Don’t try heroic efforts until you’ve explored all the demonstrably non-destructive ones.
First of all, if the drive mounts, gives no errors from the Finder or from Disk Utility but appears to contain no files, then the likelihood that this is a symptom of a hardware error is very small. Moving the drive to different enclosures or trying to connect it internally is probably not advisable.
Are you cerrtain the drive was not simply re-initialized? That would be the simplest explanation for there being no files apparent. If that’s the case, then surely a majority of the contents are recoverable, BUT NOT IF YOU DO ANYTHING FURTHER WITH THE DRIVE.
If you have recovery software that’s specifically designed to recover files from a re-initialized volume, use that. If not and you cannot acquire such software, and if the data is valuable enough, then I strongly recommend that you use a commercial data recovery service.
Unfortunately, I cannot give you any specific recommendations for diagnostic and repair software—I’ve been away from Mac OS too long.
I know this is not very specific, and I’m sorry for that. I’ll keep an eye out in case you have other questions that I might be able to answer.
Good luck.
RRS
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Whats the best recommended hard drive testing tool

what hard drive testing tool would you guys recommend??
not just for lenovo's, for all PCs.& Notebooks
thanks
this should be easy...?

I use HD Tune.
If you're assessing damage, the free HDD Regenerator might be useful.
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how do you tell the free hard drive space on macbook pro 10.6.8

Open Activity Monitor and look at the drive space info
see graphic here
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If you use Time Machine, it's probably OSX deleting expired "Local snapshots." See #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for details.

Before Mac OS X lion install I had over 50% free hard drive space on new MBP, but now my hard drive is full without me doing anything! How do I fix this??? Or should I just revert to Snow Leopard???

Before Mac OS X lion install I had over 50% free hard drive space on new MBP, but now my hard drive is full without me doing anything! How do I fix this??? Or should I just revert to Snow Leopard???

Sounds like the Time Machine Local Backup. Try turning Time Machine Off in System Preferences to verify.
See: OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
But, your real problem is
I forgot to mention that I tried to use Disk Utility to Verify Disk, but it cannot. I get red errors that say the MacHD is corrupt and needs to be repaired. It says that in order to do this I need to use the Disk Utility on the install disk, but Lion doesn't have one!
Boot into Lion's Recovery (Hold ⌘R on Boot), select Disk Utility and then select Macintosh HD and click [Repair Disk]
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Is there any application or plug in that anyone knows of that could tell me how much free hard drive space i have left on my mac? Thanks so much. . .

I'm looking for an application or plug in that can tell me how much free space I have available on my hard drive left for my MacBook Air, thanks so much!

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I have a HP Pavilion dv8t-1100 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit) that seems to run just fine. On a whim, I ran the pre-boot diagnostic check and received the following error code that the hard drive test had failed.
Q7NK1R-52M62E-XD002J-60WW03
Nothing in my PC's performance prompted me to run the diagnostic test, I simply ran it as a double check for the heck of it.
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I can not remember making any signficant changes lately to the installed software and have made no changes to the hardware at all.
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MJD

Hi,
I would resaet (not reset) the HDD or you may want to try this first:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01443463&cc=ad&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_in...
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Free Hard Drive Space on a new MB

I'm about to get a Black MB and was wondering how much of the hard drive is being used with programes and the OS and how much free space can i expect?

There are a number of threads posted about this. At least three have been active in the past day. So they're not too deep.
You'll probably lose around 15-20gb of the advertised space to trial software, language packs and printer drivers - yadda, yadda.
It would be wise to do a clean install of OS X right when you get it. Leaving out the trial software, iDVD, GarageBand, any language packs you won't use, any printers you won't use out will give you back probably around 6gb. Maybe more.

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I have a 120gb hard drive on my macbook. It only says that I have 1.5gb of free space left. However when I add up the space taken by the top folders (Applications, Developer, Library, System and Users) I come to a total of about 63 gb) Where is the rest of the free space?
Thanks.

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Omni Disk Sweeper is the best for finding file hogs you've forgotten about & bloated folders you've lost track of the increasing fatness of (my own Download folder, for example, which I've been meaning to comb through & find the DMG dupes of apps I've already installed & don't need the DMGs for anymore). And running ODS for the first time is a REAL eye opener. It'll make ya a better more concientious maid.
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Run Onyx & dump all your caches, or a util that does that. Caches hold LOTS o stuff. And Tiger's got all kinds of caches. Especially big are the browser caches, of course.
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Eliminate duplicate files. For example, MP3's you might have in some folder that iTunes auto-copies when they're, say, double-clicked on & they wind up getting opened by iTunes which you've got set as the default app (change the default opener particularly or globally in the MP3 file's info box). If iTunes doesn't have that MP3 indexed into its database then it'll make a copy of it & it then puts that copy into its own folder. So then ya got 2 of the same thing. Leave it if ya want it that way though, of course.
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Hard drive diagnostic software available? A105

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HP Hard Drive Diagnostic Failure Code VC7C3D-6NF7NV-MFPWWJ-60SJ03 -- What does it mean?

Hello, I recently used HP diagnostics (freshly updated) to run an extended diagnostic on the hard drive (Samsung/Seagate ST500LM012). The diagnostic failed within the first minute with the following failure code: Failure Code: VC7C3D-6NF7NV-MFPWWJ-60SJ03 What actions should this failure code be prompting? I did a search on the web for this rather elaborate failure code, but the search returned nothing. The system boots and runs with no problems, but the hard drive does have some bad blocks that have been recently picked up by "chkdsk /r" and added to the bad cluster file. A lot of device resets were being being logged to the Windows Event Log, issued by "amdsata" to the hard drive (/Device/Raid0), but since upgrading the amdsata driver to the most recent version from AMD's web site a day ago, the errors have stopped. So far as I can tell, everything else seems to be in order. Any help from someone at HP (who can hopefully look up the failure code) would be very much appreciated. Thanks, EAT

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1.Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
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6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

700kb free hard drive space!?!?!?

well, i had an issue last night. went to copy something, and didn't have enough har drive space. forced me to clean up and organize myself though. but either way, wasn't my problem. my home drive, was 346gb, and last i checked, i had 90+ free, but not last night. i tried to add up all the folders i had that should take space to 204gb
i had to run my file browser (konqueror) as admin, or root, whatever. and checked the space on the wifes user account, and it was taking up all the space, but when i went in and checked her personal files, there was only 5
anyway, ended up, being a xinit something error file, that somehow bloated itself. so i got rid of it, and everything normal.
im just looking for some insight as to what could have caused that?

it seems it is happening again, theres an .xsession-errors-:2 thats currently 400~mb
here's where it seems to go bad
12117] 20:46:03: Setting root URL to http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/atoms/49/c8/49c8dbe2a74a23bcb7d9bb81ad1d54f3.swf?clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Ebannerconnect%2Enet%2Fclick%2CzAIAAKffAgBVpggAxRgDAAAACAAAABAAAwABFQIAAQNWAAMAjboEALe%2DBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIUQb0cAAAAA%2C%2Chttp%253A%252F%252Fads%2Eak%2Efacebook%2Ecom%252Fads%252Fcreative%252Fbannerconnectinternational%252F120x600%5Fbc%252520tag%2Ehtml%2C
12117] 20:46:03: Setting base URL to http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/creative/BannerConnectInternational/120x600_BC%20Tag.html
12117] 20:46:03: No rendering flags specified, using rcfile
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::init(int, char***) enter
12117] 20:46:03: OpenGL extension version - 1.3
12117] 20:46:03: Got double-buffered visual.
12117] 20:46:03: Created XEmbedded window
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::createMenu() enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::setupEvents() enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: static gboolean gnash::GtkGui::realize_event(GtkWidget*, GdkEvent*, void*) enter
12117] 20:46:03: Base url set to: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/creative/BannerConnectInternational/120x600_BC%20Tag.html
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::createWindow(int, int) enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::run() enter
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOI markers
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOF markers
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Didn't expect more than one scan
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
and the rest of it almost is the malformed swf etc etc. so wtf is that?
the other problem i've been having, is my system seems to freeze sometimes, usually after the wifes been on it. when i'm on it, i don't have problems, i figured with little access to anything, and not being able to install activex controls, since its linux, it should be pretty well dummy proofed from her.
maybe thats why, she's doing something thats building up those log files. wonder if i could disable xsession logging under her account al together, or bad idea?
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My brand new T500 Hard Drive makes off and on very faint grinding noise. The grinding happens for 6 times and then goes away for 5-10 seconds and then happens again and so on.
Is this normal or is my new hard drive defective, and should I ask Lenovo for a replacement hard drive?
I ran the lenovo hard drive diagnostic tool and it did not find any issues.

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