-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Anybody know where I can get a utility for those?

 WC> Go too www.maxtor.com, plug "MaxBlast" into the search utility and
 WC> download it from the link as I did..

 RJT> MaxBlast?  I was of the impression that was one of those deals to let
 RJT> you use larger drives on bios-inhibited older systems,  or something of
 RJT> the sort.  I'll take a look,  see what the site has to say...

I think what Wayne meant to type was "PowerMax",  or PowMax, or sumpin'
like that.  Maxblast will let you clone a hard drive.  Powermax has
drive diagnostics,  at least a pseudo-LLF program, and etc.

AFAICT, Powermax will work on drives from other Mfgrs, as well.  A few
months back, I had a beef with it, as it had "LLF'd" a HDD, then
another program in the pkg. tested and certified it as 'error free' ,
and I had run about 50 passes of its "burn-in" HDD test,  but after all
that passed succesfully, the first run of MS's SCANDISK found some bad
clusters.

YMMV.
Good luck.  - - -  JimH.

... "Bother!" said Pooh, as his system couldn't find his hard drive
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