Re: Crystal Disk Mark Hard Disk Sentinel
Julia Heaslet
I have a SATA to USB adapter and that is about it. I can plug them in and see if Windows mounts them but that is about it. Can third party utilities check SMART data when a drive is plugged in via the adapter, if so which is a good utility or method that you use?
Crystal disk info and crystal disk Mark. Info pulls your smart data and specs, then run CD Mark to test read/write performance for any indications of mechanical issues. Takes 10 minutes tops per drive.
I am not aware that a generic USB adapter is able to check all the SMART information.
I find more convenient to connect it directly to the internal connector of the computer itself.
To manage the reliability of the hard disk, I use CrystalDiskInfo:
About CrystalDiskInfo A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe. Aoi Edition Standard Edition Shizuku Edition Kurei Kei Edition Download System Requirements OS Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11Windows Server...
hi all new here and new to thee xbox modding, i have a tosp modded og xbox i wont to check the heath of my drive as ive noiced sum saves are not loading i have a 500GB segate sata drive in it i wont to make sure the drive is ok and it's not just a curuped file ?
take the drive out and connect it to your pc. DON'T FORMAT IT! run a free tool called crystal disk INFO(no crystal disk MARK) and it will tell u the health of the drive and also tell u how many hours it has on it and all the start/stop cycles it has been thru. this tool will even work on a locked drive. there is also another tool called hard drive sentinel that u can use to get a slightly more detail diagnosis. u can try to clone the drive with chimp(look up youtube vids on how to do this) if it is failing.
I usually use UnleashX to see basic SMART info about a drive. I'll also look to see how many times it has been powered on in its life to get an idea of how old it is. If you're using a stock hard drive, just remember that some of them are coming up on 20 years old and hard drives don't live forever. If the drive works, then great. But backup important data you wouldn't want to lose to a PC.
I know this thread is a little old now, but hopefully the tip will come in useful, when I softmod and upgrade my HDD I always keep the original hdd for redundancy use in the event i don't null the HDD. if you're still running the original HDD, I would seriously consider upgrading it to something allot newer. YouTube provides loads of videos showing you how to clone a HDD. The last of these consoles to come of the production line was in 2005 making the newest of these 16 years old with the majority being much older near 20 years old. the average hdd life span is 5 years, meaning the original consoles hdds are very much on borrowed time. 1 out of 3 OG xboxs i receive had dead hard drives.
ogXbox's lock their hard drive's with a seldom used ATA security feature - a user password - to prevent access to the data stored on them. And, until unlocked, most of the ATA commands are not allowed to run. Once unlocked, you can run the short and long drive tests using the command-line application smartctl.exe that's part of XboxHDM23USB Beta 2 or 3 v6.2 or a newer release of it v7.2 provided with XboxHDM-2.3-Beta4.
You can unlock the hard drive if you either know the user password for the drive (20 bytes of data for the ogXbox), have the eeprom.bin backup for the Xbox the drive is installed in or know the hard drive manufacturer's MASTER password, if it has not been changed by an application such as ConfigMagic for the Xbox which sets it to TEAMASSEMBLY.
ogXbox's lock their hard drive's with a seldom used ATA security feature - a user password - to prevent access to the data stored on them. And, until unlocked, most of the ATA commands are not allowed to run.
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