[ltp] Sick Hard drive?

[mukesh agrawal]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Dan Borello wrote:

> Do you think that the HD is about to die?  It is running fine right
> now.  I would really love to not have to replace the hard drive.  If the
> drive is going bad, would I be able to prove this to IBM, seeing as I
> don't have windows on that partition.

Boot from a rescue CD that has s.m.a.r.t. tools on it?

Use the SMART tools to check the drive's self-diagnostic information.