- HDD Scan And Repair is a handy solution for determining the bad sectors on an IDE-connected storage device and trying to isolate them so that the hardware can still be used. However, keep in mind.
- HDDScan is a free hard drive testing program for all types of drives, no matter the manufacturer. It includes a SMART test and a surface test. The program is easy to use, is completely portable, supports almost all drive interfaces, and seems to be regularly updated. Use HDDScan in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP, as well as Windows Server 2003.
- HDDScan دانلود نرم افزار HDDScan 4.1 Build 0.29 نرم افزاری رایگان و کاربردی جهت اسکن انواع هارد دیسک موجود در بازا میباشد که بعد از اسکن گزارشی از هاردیسک در اختیار شما قرار میدهد.
El Capitan’s Disk Utility is a handy tool for troubleshooting and repairing your hard drive (whether you’re noticing that your Mac has slowed considerably or you have problems opening files and applications). You can find it in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. Connect your scanner to your Mac, plug it in, and turn it on. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Printers & Scanners. Select your scanner in the list at the left, then click Open Scanner on the right. If your scanner is also a printer, you may need to click Scan on the right before you can click Open Scanner.
HDD Scan Description
HDD Scan is a rogue system defragmenter tool and, therefore, will not fix any security problems it alleges to have detected. HDDScan is similar to Disk Doctor because it uses deceiving system alerts to frighten computer users into paying for its non-existent license. HDD Scan is not a program users should purchase to optimize a computer for peak performance.
Once HDD Scan infiltrates a computer, it obstructs users from using other programs on the PC or downloading programs from the Web. HDD Scan’s fake system alerts appear as error messages that warn the user of detected problems with the hard drive. All security messages and scan reports generated by HDD Scan are not to be trusted; instead users should use a malware remover that can bypass HDD Scan’s blocking capabilities.
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Technical Information
Registry Details
HDD Scan creates the following registry entry or registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun '[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe'
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun '[RANDOM CHARACTERS]'
We had a call-out about a PC we had installed a couple of years ago reporting it couldn’t find a boot drive. This is usually down to the main hard-drive failing, or perhaps one of the leads not being fitted on to it tightly enough.
Having wired it up again (the client had replaced it with a spare PC) the PC booted up as though nothing was wrong. Not unusual if it was a loose lead so powered it down and took the side of the PC off to take a look.
Unfortunately, the drive wasn’t an old HD or even a new SSD, it was a Toshiba OCZ PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD – one of the new format solid state ‘drives’ that plugs directly onto the motherboard. It was screwed in tight, so no question of it having come loose.
Looking in Event Manager it was obvious there had been an issue, as it contained hundreds of ‘bad block’ errors for the disk but they stopped being generated on the most recent boot.
Bad blocks were bad news on old mechanical drives and usually were a warning that you’d better check your backups. With SSDs, they are not considered so serious and a lot do contain bad blocks / sectors that the drive simply replaces using the spare memory that comes with the drive. However, we were seeing a lot of errors so the next step was the right-click on the drive in Explorer, Properties / Tools and then clicking the Check button in the Error checking section.
The tool ran quickly and found no bad blocks at all, so did this mean they had all been fixed and the disk was safe to use? For a second opinion we installed HDDScan, which is a great little tool.
After installing it, run it and select the drive you want to scan. We like the Butterfly scan and then as soon as it starts click on the scan in the window at the bottom and choose the Map display. This gives a very nice graphical representation of each block as it is tested by the program.
On our scan, everything was running okay, some sectors were a little slow to respond but not terrible, until it got around 25% of the way through. At the is point it just started displaying the dreaded black square with a ‘B’ in it to show bad block. After this, pretty much every block showed bad until we stopped the scan.
No doubt about it – the drive needed replacing. Luckily we had a Crucial SSD with us so we were able to use the Acronis tool it came with to clone the contents of the OCZ to the SSD, clicking on ‘Ignore All’ when it hit the bad blocks.
The PC is running fine now but i9t’s a worry that a 3-year old OCZ could have failed so badly in that time.
Take-home message though is that if you want to see if your drive is healthy, HDDScan is a handy piece of software to have available.
Pat2020-08-05T18:06:07+01:00July 29th, 2020|Software we like|