Lab 5-3 Using Diagnostic Software

· Start in XP and download the program below.

· Go to: http://www.msdus.com/diags/

• MicroSystems Development provides a diagnostic program called TestDrive for examining and diagnosing problems with floppy drives and floppy disks. We have it available on our website. Download and unzip it. Put it onto the C: drive so it is accessible from Windows 9x.
• Reboot into 98.
• When you download or copy the zipped file to your PC, explode it, and then do the following. (Most of the options on the TestDrive menu require that you have a DDD disk, but you can perform a few tests without one.)
• Execute the TestDrive software by double-clicking the file TESTDRIVE.COM in
• Windows Explorer.
• Select the option to perform the Write/Read test. The warning box will appear. Perform the test with a disk that has nonessential data on it that can be erased. While the test is running, answer these questions.

1. In what order are these components on the disk tested: heads, tracks, and sectors?

2. Did you get any errors? If so, where?

3. If you got a significant number of errors, try another disk. Do you see a pattern of errors when moving from one disk to another?

Installing Data Doctor Removable Media Recovery

1. Go into the pub folder into software and find the labfiles for this unit.
2. Install Removable Media Recovery Tool.
3. Insert a Flash drive (borrow one if you don’t have your own).
4. Open the program.
5. What information does it give you about your media?

Physical Disk Number

Model

Media type

Cylinder

Head

SectorsPerTrack

Disk Size

6. Go into My computer and right click on your drive. Write down the file system (it’ll be FAT, FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS).
7. Go back to the program. Click on your drive and select “Standard Search”
8. Click next.
9. Read the directions. If it doesn’t like standard mode, go back to advanced.
10. Select Partition Type
11. Let it do its thing.
12. Were you able to find anything to recover? What?

13. Try this program on a floppy. Does it work?