Drive Fitness Test Alternatives
Drive Fitness Test is described as 'Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting data'. There are three alternatives to Drive Fitness Test for Windows. The best alternative is SeaTools, which is free. Other great apps like Drive Fitness Test are Pc-Check (Paid) and Windows Surface Scanner (Free).
- SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer.
- Pc-Check will scan for errors in all hardware components on the computer it is being deployed on and display diagnostic results. The software is bootable from CDs and USBs, so even if the OS won't start the program will still be able to run.
- Windows Surface Scanner is a free, fast utility that scans your hard drive(s) for physical errors. It will examine each sector on your hard drive for read errors and reports them if found. It is purely diagnostic and will not fix or “mark” bad sectors or recover data.