DTI Data Recovery have made a useful piece of software for investigating hard drive errors. Sometimes when diagnosing your PC for performance issues, there is only so much you can do with tweaks. If the problem is physical.. then you need to get physical and fix it directly. If a hard drive(s) is faulty, then you will definitely have performance issues.
Windows Surface Scanner steps in here to help zero in on those bad sectors and report back to you what problems you are facing. Then you will know the appropriate action to take. That is fix or replace. If its very bad, you at least know to start backing up and quick!
Here is a rundown on installing and running the software.
This is the second screen after you start it up. On the first screen, just accept the terms and conditions.
To list your drives, hit the mount button:
Tick the drive and click Scan. Only one drive may be
scanned at a time. Then let it do its business. You can watch its progress on the bottom left of the application:
If you need to stop it, just hit Exit.
Simple software. Download Windows Surface Scanner Here
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