How to Test Bad Sectors on Hard Drive or SSD [3 Methods]

With the tools built into Windows, the chkdsk full scan is the most likely to help. The manufacturer of the drive may have a tool that can help.

The OEM of the drive typically has tools for this. You could also just use chkdsk with the /R option. This is built into windows and will check ...

Open a command prompt asks run sfc /scannow and see if that helps. If not you could have corruption, virus, malware, or the left overs of a bad ...

CHKDSK can either scan your hard disk and provide a report, or scan your disk and correct both file errors and bad sectors. A file error is an error in the ...

Fixing bad sectors on a hard drive without formatting can be attempted using built-in Windows utilities like CHKDSK or third-party disk repair tools such as ...

Method 1. Check bad sectors with Command Prompt. Command Prompt can not only do basic disk management tasks, but also scan and repair bad ...

Use the Windows Error Checking Tool Right-click on the “Command Prompt” result and select “Run as administrator.” At the command prompt, type “chkdsk /r” (without quotes) and press Enter. This will start a scan of your hard drive and attempt to repai

A disk can write to a sector that may be weak or pending failure but not be revealed until you do a surface read scan.

In the Check Disk dialog box, select the Automatically Fix File System Errors check box, select the Scan For And Attempt Recovery Of Bad Sectors check box, and ...

This video shows how to check and repair bad sectors for hard drives, SSDs and USB drives using a free program called DiskGenius.