Check Your Hard Drive For Error & Fix It

Is strange sounds coming from your hard drive? Your computer doesn't respond somtime although it is not infected with the virus or any other malware? Then the first thing to do is make a backup of your essential data, because your hard drive have some error and you may lose your important data.

However, there are several ways to know your hard drive’s health condition and look for any error. Doing so helps you in identifying those errors and enables you to take proper action before everything is messed up.

How to Check Your Hard Drive for Errors?
There are three methods to check hard drive for error discussed in detail below.

Method 1 - Using chkdsk.exe
Go to Run > type “chkdsk.exe” (without quotes) or if you want to check errors for a particular drive, then right click on it and choose “Properties” “Tools” tab and click on “Check Now” button. You can automatically choose to fix file system errors and recover bad sectors present on your hard drive.

Method 2 - Use diagnostic tools for testing your hard drive like Seagate SeaTools 
SeaTools for Windows can perform several basic tests that can help determine the health of your hard drive. Your available hard drives and tests are easy to see when the program opens and can be ran with just a few clicks of the mouse.

You can test hard drives from any manufacturer and of any type, including PATA, SATA, and SCSI internal drives along with USB and FireWire external drives. To begin, simply download the software from Seagate's site and install in Windows.

SeaTools for DOS can also perform the several basic tests that SeaTools fro Windows can run but it can also run a very useful Acoustic Test. This test can really save you a lot of time during the troubleshooting of a noisy internal component. It will spin the drive down until it's completely idle, making the drive nearly silent. If you no longer hear the strange noise, the hard drive was the culprit!

Download : [SeaTool For Windows]

Method 3 - Disk Check Up
If the above method doesn’t fulfil your requirement or satisfy you, use the DiskCheckUp software to monitor your hard drive. This particular utility will let you know if your hard disk exceeds the maximum threshold designation by its manufacturer.

PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, the system administrator can receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible future failure of the hard drive.

Download : [PassMark DiskCheckup]

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