Check Conditions Your Computer Hard Disk

One of the causes of the computer often "Hang" is a hard drive that has been worn so that there are parts which can not access the (bad sector). Normally this can occur if the computer is turned off often without electricity or shutdown that often sudden death (without UPS). In addition it may also be due to the age of the hard drive is old.

If there are affected by the hardisk bad sector, it will be berimbas to the performance of the computer, whether it be slow and often hangs when running certain programs. Besides the data that [have] saved will be vulnerable to damage. If so, how to check the condition of the computer hard drive?

There are various ways to check the condition of hard drives, if the default windows scandisk can use the facilities, but the Windows XP start to do this must restart scandisk first. How much easier with the use of free software. in addition to more easily, also looks better and more informative. Two examples of this software is HD Tune and HDDScan

Excess another 2 softwre is a portable, so that we can take to go through flasdisk-which does not need to install and to run it.

1. Tune HDD, Hard Disk Utility

This application is in the 4 major facilities (in tab 4), the Benchmark, Info, Health and Error Scan. Benchmark for how fast write and read access time access hardisk. Info provides information on the drive and support facilities in the hard drives and detail information about the Firmware Hard Disk.

Health will give the condition or status of "health" hardisk. Error Scan to check if there are corrupted Hardisk it. Error scan facilities that we take advantage of this to check the condition hardisk. So the results do not accurately then check with the Quick Scan, uncheck the check in the Quick Scan.

If there are blocks of red, the hard drive is broken / error, and usually in with a bad sector. If the access is often the computer hangs. In addition to the information HD Tune also provides temperature / temperature Hard Disk. Download http://www.hdtune.com/

2. HDDScan

This is the second application specializes hardisk to check the condition (low-level HDD Scan), so that the information scanned more detail, the access time by displaying each block (section) on the hard drive. Read the information in writing also included. HDDScan men-support IDE / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB / Firewire hard disks and Flash cards. Following the example with the display scan HDDScan (version 2.8).

Hardisk that both should still block the green is very little or not there is also a block of orange or red color. If there is a red block, then the future can be a bad sector (dark blue). While the block mazarine (bad blocks) shows bad sectors (not available), so that should not have.

In fact HDDScan latest version is 3.1, but even with the extra skin causes a bit slow and easy operation is still version 2.8. Although the new version there are additional facilities and improvements to the temperature sensor other bugs. Additional information: make sure to scan the hard drive, do not run other applications while