Dell Hard Drive Test
Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration. Run a quick test or identify your product to see more diagnostic options. 10 minutes × About the Quick Test. This test includes components that are most likely to cause issues, such as hard drive or memory. Replacement parts may be free-of.
Dell hard drivediagnosticsDell has two utilities to run diagnostics on the hard drive.90-90 diags take 2 to 5 minutes to run and gives a result on thehard drive. The test will either report the drive passed or it willreport the drive failed and give a code. The diagnostics isnot foolproof. The test can pass on a failing hard drive, so don'trule that possibility out during troubleshooting.
There is twoways to start the diagnostics.When you first turn the system on, press the CTRL - ALT - D keysover and over again till it tells you the diags are running. If youget 'Keyboard failure', you pressed the keys too soon and will haveto try again.
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If you get the windows splash screen, you missed thewindow and will have to shut down to try again.When you first turn the system on, press the F12 key till you geta boot menu. Choose hard drive diagnostics, you will get messagethat the diags are running. If you get 'Keyboard failure', youpressed the keys too soon and will have to try again. If you get thewindows splash screen, you missed the window and will have to shutdown to try again.You can run diagnostics on the hard drive with this utility.There is several different versions of the diagnostics that it isimpossible to cover the steps on how to run the diagnostics usingthis utility. You will have to consult Dell for the instructions.To start the diagnostics, you will boot to a CD with the diags onit, Boot to a floppy with the diagnostics on it, or boot to theutility. If you boot to the utility, you can reach it when you pressF12 and get the boot menu. Copyright © 2002 UpgradeNRepair.
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