Hardware/Tool: Need software that can scan a hard drive for internal errors:

I’m seeking some help/ information, about powerful hardware scanning tools, that can determine if my hard disk is broken or its just an error that could be fix with a bit of programming. I have a WD500GB external hard drive, not too sure what is really wrong with it or not, but I seem to get a (I/O error) but only when it is around 60% full or something around those ramifications, once 200GBS is all that is left I start getting transferring errors, such as I/O.

 

As you have a WD hard drive, I would suggest this, http://www.majorgeeks.com/Western_Digital_DLG_Diagnostics_d3505.html. Hope this helps!

 

I’ll try it once I get the hard drive fully formatted and set back to fat32, thank you for the link.

 

Very welcome and hope that it helps fix your problem! :major

 

lol I found all the tools now, I even found the button tool, but other then that there isn't anything else i could find to run the checking other, then cmd lines.

 

Have you checked out the Drive Utilities page? There may be something there worth looking at - HDDScan seems interesting.

 

You download Windows version of DLG.
If you're having problems with your drive, it may not work.
Your better choice would be Data Lifeguard Diagnostic v5.04c for DOS (CD) (June 2004):

Use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD (select "Write image file to disc" option), and make the CD bootable.
Boot from the CD.

Note : If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from CD follow the steps here

 

I posted, because this tool:
http://majorgeeks.com/Western_Digital_Data_Lifeguard_Tools_d2855.html
may not work.
As I said in my previous post, the above is .msi file, which installs Windows based program.
If the OP has hard drive problem, I suppose, it'd be better to download an .iso file to create bootable CD.

 

Seeing as he is trying to test an external the windows diagnostic version will work just fine, the iso might work better if he was trying to scan his boot drive and it was having issues, but he isn't.