Hard disk utility

[dayblaze]

Can anyone tell me if there's a hard disk diagnostic utility I can run from an Ubuntu live CD? I've got an intermittent boot problem where my computer hangs on the BIOS screen.

Thanks!

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[alexseanchai]

So I have this netbook; her name's Io and she runs Ubuntu. Io has a hard drive of a few hundred meg. She also has a permanently inserted memory card of sixteen gig. Every time I start her up, she complains about hard drive space and her lack thereof. How do I convince her that the memory card is her hard drive? Or at least convince Update Manager to download updates onto the memory card? Because I haven't saved a single thing to disk on Io that isn't an update from Update Manager.