Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Check the condition of your Computer Hard Disk

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One of the reasons the computer in many cases "Hang" is a hard disk that has been worn, there are parts not available (damaged). Usually, this can occur if the computer is in many cases, without interruption or power and often die suddenly (without UPS). Perhaps also because it is old hard drive the old one.
If any part of the hard disk bad sector affected, it affects the performance of your computer, whether it is slow to hang when running certain programs. In addition, the data that [saved] is likely to be corrupted. If the answer is yes, and how to check the hard disk on your computer?
There are several ways to check the status of the drive, if you examine the default of Windows can use the facilities, but started in Windows XP to do this is to re-examine the first. Easier way by using the software for free. To participate more easily, and sounds even better and informative. Two examples of this program is to tune high-precision and HDDScan
Another advantage is two softwre is portable, so that we can take it anywhere via flasdisk I do not need to install the driver.

1. Set the hard disk, hard disk utility
In this application, there are four main facilities (tab 4), the benchmark index, information, health, and scanning errors. Reference to determine how to write and read fast access time and access the hard disk. Info provides information on the drive and support facilities in the hard drive as well as detailed information on the firmware on the hard drive.

It will give health, status or condition of the "health" of the hard disk. Standard scan to see if someone had broken with the hard drive. Error analysis of these facilities that we use to check the status of the disk. For specific results do not check with a quick scan, and remove the check mark in the list for quick analysis.

If a block of red color, which is part of the hard disk is damaged / wrong, and usually are in a call with bad sectors. If the parts that can be accessed in many cases lead to computer crashes. In addition to information of high accuracy of the melody also provides information on temperature / temperature of the hard disk.
Download http://www.hdtune.com/

2. HDDScan
The second application is more specialized in check the status of your hard disk (a low-level disk scanning) so that is cleared more detailed information, and view at the time of arrival of each block (section) on disk. Are also included information literacy. HDDScan that support IDE / SATA SCSI disk / hard disk, raid, [external USB / FireWire hard drives and flash cards. The following example scans the screen with HDDScan (version 2.8).

Another good drive should be a green block with little or no blocks, as well as orange or red. If there is a red block, and then in the future could be a bad sector (dark blue). In spite of the dark blue blocks (bad blocks) shows bad sectors (not available), so that should not exist.

HDDScan is in fact the latest version 3.1, but with the skin the more reason why even a little slow, and easy process is still version 2.8. Although the new version there are temperature sensors and additional fixed a bug and others.
Additional information: Make sure when you scan the disk, and not when you run other applications (ebsoft)
Can be obtained HDDScan (download) here:

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