Do you need free software to check if your computer is working properly?
Do you need free software to check if your computer is working properly?
Can anyone recommend a bootable PC diagnostic tool that's modern enough to handle big drives, lots of memory, etc.? I've tried UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) and Hirem's Boot CD, but the programs inside are too old now. None of them recognize my newest computer's 32 GB of RAM or its hard disks, including a RAID array on an SSD and a 8 TB SATA backup drive. Even Seagate's own Seatools can't see their own 8 TB Barracuda disk. It's really frustrating. I've looked around for other options, but everything found runs only on Windows. That's not what I want because when my PC acts up, the very first thing I'd like to remove is Windows. Once all the hardware tests pass, then I can confidently say it's a software problem and fix it accordingly. Free tools are best, though I'm willing to pay a small fee for something that checks everything and has a good way to upgrade later. Any suggestions would be amazing.
You might try using a Linux Live USB drive. Some computers come with built-in hardware tests in their BIOS that scan for problems quite well. There are also special vendor boot disks like the Lenovo ones you can find online, which run similar checks. I used one before it worked just fine.
You could try using a Linux Live boot disk too. Sometimes computers have built-in hardware tests in the BIOS that find problems well enough to work with them. I know there are vendor boot disks you can make for this purpose, and Lenovo has one called the system check boot disk. It's been used before at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutio...iagnostics
And I will add that there are a lot of PowerShell commands called Get that can also work as one-liners to find specific system and hardware info. For example: From the Powershell prompt run the Get-ComputerInfo command. Other examples: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-ge...powershell https://www.improvescripting.com/how-to-...owershell/