Bonnie from Arkansas writes: I have two internal hard drives I would like to use for storage, but I'm not sure I should take the chance. My Vista had a corrupt hard drive put in it. My Win 7 was knocked out by lightning. Should I just chunk them? Answer: An old hard drive can make a good backup device, but you're right to be concerned about the reliability of the drive. The best thing you can do to test them is perform a detailed scan to verify the disk is operating...
