Spinrite 6.0 is worth it's weight in gold

I can't even begin to tell you how awesome spinrite 6 is.

I have seen so many bsod issues with windows solved by running this diagnostic and finding some corrupted bit in some mission critical windows file causing the bsod. It is great for testing and burning in new hard drives, to make sure they are free of bad sectors. It is also good for data recovery on corrupted files due to disk errors.

I highly encourage you guys to use it.

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm