Disk surface test, check disk bad sectors and hard drive error.

Posted on Aug 02, 2016 by Daisy to Partition Master Guide

Summary:: How to test disk surface and check bad sectors? EaseUS Partition Master will test surface for disk with ease and mark the hard disk drive bad sectors for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/8 and Server 2003/2008/2012.

With the disk comes into increasing use, the bad sectors will be 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? A surface test tool does what it implies - it scans the hard disk surface, check bad sectors and mark bad sectors so that the computer knows they will be not used in the future.

Now partition manager software - EaseUS Partition Master, its Surface test is available for computer users. 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. It may allow them to be read, the data stored on the bad sector is still accessible, but they cannot be written to. Other more complex cases such as to migrate OS to SSD or gpt partition recovery can all be fixed on your own with this software now.

How to do surface test with EaseUS Partition Master?

1. Download EaseUS Partition Master and install it. After that, launch EaseUS Partition Master.

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Windows 10 is supported

2. Select the hard disk you want to test surface, right click the hard disk and select Surface test (or click menu Disk > Surface test), then EaseUS Partition Master starts checking bad sectors for hard disk. Bad sectors will be marked as red.

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