How to check a hard drive for broken sectors

Stable work of a hard drive is a reliable safety of all your files. If malfunctions appear in his work, then some important documents can simply abuse your computer and never return. Remember that the work of the hard drive is unpredictable, and if you do not perform clear checks at least once six months, it can completely refuse one of the most ordinary days. Cleaning the computer from “garbage” and “rubbish”, timely scanning with antivirus and checking broken sectors will help you protect yourself from malfunctions in almost all of iron. In this article you will learn how to find broken sectors on your hard drive.

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Preparation for the search for broken sectors on a hard drive

First of all, you must take such steps:

• Clean your computer from clogging files and cache.
• Check the disk for errors.
• Perform scanning with antivirus.
• Make self -diagnosis.
• Download a program for searching for broken sectors.

Most often, the programs for broken sectors can immediately perform self -diagnosis, so we will combine these steps into one point. As you can see, this process is quite capacious and will take a lot of your time, however, so you can find the causes of the unbearable work of the hard drive, and also estimate when you should replace it. If there are more than ten broken sectors, you should think about changing a hard drive. It is not difficult to do on a laptop and on a computer.

Cleaning a computer from trash

Windows tools are often poorly coping with the deletion of extra files, so it is better to install a special program that will help you with this. One of the most famous and convenient is CCleaner. In it, you can immediately clean the cache, delete all the garbage files that remained after deleting the programs, as well as to deinstall software immediately from the CCleaner window.

Uplated, use your own cleaning software.

• In the “Cleaner” section in the left menu, select the Windows tab. First, click “Analyze” to perform an analysis of all files that can be deleted and then “Run Cleaner”. Cleaning will take from a few seconds to a minute.

• Then go to the “Applications” tab and again perform an algorithm with the Analyze and Run Cleaner buttons.

This will be enough to continue working with another software. Such a combination is recommended to be performed every week.

Checking disk check

Remember, if errors are found on the disk, then you will have to solve them first and only then begin to search for broken sectors. Any dishes of disk will affect the results of the program diagnostics for sectors.

• Go to “My Computer” convenient for you so that a hard drive appears in front of you.

• Click on it with the right mouse button once.
• In the menu that appears, find the string of “properties” and click on it.

• A small menu with various options will open before you. Go to the "Service" section.
• In it, click on the “check” field.

• You just have to press the “launch” button and wait a couple of minutes.

Some problems that the diagnostic tool will find will solve themselves, but some need your participation. If there are no problems, then proceed to the next step.

Antivirus scanning

Everything is extremely simple here: scan the whole computer with your antivirus. If you do not have it, then correct it immediately, since on each computer there should be a fresh antivirus with a new database.

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Installation of the program and scanning broken sectors on hard drive

If you just moved to this item, bypassing all the upper recommendations - you make a big mistake. The diagnostic tool will not reveal the true value of the problem sectors if you have not put in order all the files on your computer.

To begin with, select software to your liking, in this article HDDSCAN will be used. You can download it by direct link: HDDSCAN. As soon as you click on it, the program itself will propose to carry out the conservation.

• Go to the downloaded archive and click twice on the line hddscan.exe

• A program will open right there - it does not require a lot of resources to work. First of all, you need to scan a hard drive. In the very top of the program, you will see the name of the hard drive in the form of its model, under it click on the “S.M.A.R.T.” button

• If in the window that appears all the lines are green - everything is fine, you can continue. If red - contact the Internet to solve them.

• Return to the previous menu. Click on the round button and select the upper “Surface Tests” menu.

• Do not change absolutely nothing in this window. Click only the “Add Test” button.

• A blue strip will appear from below. Click on it twice with the mouse.

• Go to the "Map" section.

Finally, you can look at the condition of your sectors.

• Blue are completely dead sectors.
• Orange and red - close to death.
• Green and above - in normal working condition.

Thus, the hard drive in the screenshot will last another year in excellent working condition.