Fujitsu Windows Diagnostic Tool

Japanese IT manufacturer Fujitsu has released a tool for Windows users to check on the health of their IDE and ATA hard disk drives. Fujitsu Windows Diagnostic Tool runs two types of analyses: quick, which is based in random reading/writing tests, and completes itself in three minutes, and exhaustive, which analyzes the surface of the device and will complete in 30 to 100 minutes. The operating systems supported by Windows Diagnostic Tool are Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. This tool is also available for DOS. Users with Fujitsu SCSI hard disk drives also have access to a diagnostics tool: Diagnostic Tool Ver 2.3.