Hi guys

I'm looking at a laptop for someone and basically the Win install has died, managed to recover it using recovery console then it died again. Plus it does make the occasional funny grinding noise! So I'm guessing the disk is on the way out, its past its sell by date I know that much.

I've recovered data off it previously using knoppix and a share folder on my Win server, but now I'm wondering if there are any tools available under knoppix that'll tell me just how f**ked the disk actually is.

I though about sharing the whole disk on my network and running some win32 stuff remotely, but I'm not quite sure how I'd share the disk under knoppix and then connect to it.

Any suggestions?