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Windows Vista Hard Drive Diagnostic Tools for VISTA 64bit

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by spike99, 2008/09/26.

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    spike99

    spike99 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I have been getting some BSOD's and I think It's coming from my video card... but I have been asked to check my memory & hard drive for errors. I checked memory using memtest and found no errors... Next I contacted Western Digital (I have WD Raptor 10K RPM) and they have a Diagnostic tool for Windows but it does not support 64bit.

    I'm attempting to coordinate with a friend and test it from his PC but is there another diagnostic tool that I can use that is 64bit friendly. Either a tool already included with VISTA or a third party tool that I can use ?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    Arie

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    I don't know of any.

    As for your BSOD: Follow these instructions to post a Dump Data Log.

    If you do not have a dump, ensure that your machine is configured to write out a dump by following the directions from microsoft

    Please note:
     
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    spike99

    spike99 Inactive Thread Starter

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    OK, Thanks... Yes, I was going to check the Dump Data Log later today since I'm not home... but I also wanted to be able check my hard drive.

    I'll get back about dump data log.

    Thanks.
     
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    Arie

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    As for disk diagnostics, get the non-windows version (Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)).
     
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    Great idea. Instead of getting VISTA 64bit I'll ask about the DOS version.

    Thanks !!
     
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