What's the best program for checking a HDD for errors?

C E Jones

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I just got a new hard drive and want to make sure it's free of bad sectors and other defects. Could anyone recommend a good program for doing this?
 
You can find diagnostic utilities on the drive manufacturer's website.

Would you recommend the manufacturer's utilities over HD Tune (I just downloaded it)?

I want to check the drive because I'm having trouble partitioning it. The Windows 7 install disk doesn't offer a partitioning option under the "advanced" menu even though others have said it does, and when I tried using an Ubuntu installation disk to partition, it said it was unable to do so without saying why. The HDD is brand new, so if it's bad I want to exchange it while I still can.
 
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