We've been using the latest version of the IBM Hatachi Drive Fitness Test, 4.16 I believe it is. It works well for *almost* all situations. If a computer comes in with its BIOS set to AHCI, the DFT will boot, but doesn't detect the drive until we change the BIOS to legacy mode.
Usually that's no problem. However, today a non-booting computer came in with a 3TB System drive. When we popped the BIOS over to Legacy mode and popped in our DFT cd, it detects the hard drive, but only detects it as 800GB, not 3TB. The drive failed a DFT Advanced test, but I can't put any faith in that result because I can't be sure that the BIOS is correctly interacting with the drive.
So what I need is a bootable HDD test that will function when the BIOS is still set to AHCI mode. A test that will only run within Windows doesn't really help, because as often as not we're testing drives that are in computers that won't boot to Windows, to determine if the the issue is hardware based or not.
Usually that's no problem. However, today a non-booting computer came in with a 3TB System drive. When we popped the BIOS over to Legacy mode and popped in our DFT cd, it detects the hard drive, but only detects it as 800GB, not 3TB. The drive failed a DFT Advanced test, but I can't put any faith in that result because I can't be sure that the BIOS is correctly interacting with the drive.
So what I need is a bootable HDD test that will function when the BIOS is still set to AHCI mode. A test that will only run within Windows doesn't really help, because as often as not we're testing drives that are in computers that won't boot to Windows, to determine if the the issue is hardware based or not.
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