How do I know if HDD or SSD has bad sectors? What is a surface test and how to do an HDD surface test? EaseUS Partition Master can make hard drive surface test and check bad sectors for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/8 and Server 2003/2008/2012.
With the disk comes into increasing use, bad sectors will appear, and there will be more and more. The data stored in a bad sector may be corrupted or lost. How to know if there are bad sectors in the hard drive? You can make a surface test with a well-designed disk surface test tool.
A surface test is a scan of a hard drive (HDD or SSD) for bad sectors. Disk surface test does what it implies - it scans the hard disk surface, checks bad sectors, and marks bad sectors so that the computer knows they will be not used in the future.
EaseUS Partition Master comes to help with its Surface Test feature. It can identify bad sectors by reviewing the hard drive. When it finds bad sectors, it will mark those sectors with red color so that the system knows not to use them.
This partition manager software allows the bad sectors to be read, the data stored on the bad sector is still accessible, but they cannot be written to.
Free download EaseUS Partition Master on your computer, then follow the steps below to perform a surface test and check hard drive for bad sectors.
If there are many bad sectors on your disk, and you want to migrate OS to SSD or HDD, you can also use EaseUS partition tool to help you make it with ease.
Step 1. Open EaseUS Partition Master. Right-click the disk that you want to check, and then click "Surface Test".
Step 2. The operation will be immediately performed and all bad sectors will be marked as red.
EaseUS Partition Master provides the simplest solution to perform a hard disk surface test in one click. This all-in-one disk management tool makes it easy to partition HDD/SSD to improve system performance.
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