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Crap.

I used pwrdiag on the assumption that it was an updated version of MaxDiag. But I've just had a look at the readme for MaxDiag, and it appears that they are completely unrelated programs. There were about 4 different options in pwrdiag, and I ran them all just to be safe. But none of them was called "Write Scan," which is apparently what I needed. The only data-destructive option in powerdiag was "Low Level Format," which doesn't like it's what I needed.

Has anyone else used (or even looked at) powerdiag? Do you think that any of its tests is equivalent to the MaxDiag "Write Scan" test? Or do I need to worry about bad blocks/stuttering?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

--Bob