Check Bad Sector
How to check bad sector? This article is aiming at helping you solve some computer problems and improve the performance of your computer by making sure that your hard disk has no errors.
Overview of Check Bad Sector
A bad sector is a sector on a computer’s hard drive that has been damaged and has lost the ability to write and retrieve data. Bad sectors can sometimes corrupt your saved data as well as slow down your computer. In order to improve the performance of your computer, you can use the Check Bad Sector function to make sure that you hard disk has no errors.
Qiling Disk Master also provides the feature to check bad sector for your disk or partition. However, this function can only find the bad sector not repair it. There are dozens of ways to fix bad sector, the most effective one is to subdivide the bad sector into an independent unallocated space or use other repair tools.
Prerequisites for Check Bad Sector
- Download and install Qiling Disk Master on a Windows computer.
- Attach the drive on which you would like to check bad sector.
How to Check Bad Sector Step by Step with Partition Assistant
To check bad sector of a Disk
Conclusion
Following the above steps, we can check and find bad sectors on a partition or a drive. It helps us to inspect the drive condition.
This feature is usually used to search and find bad sectors if your drive gets some issues, such as, the drive is with slow read/write speed, errors occur frequently when writing and reading files, or a disk has problems with missing files and folders not opening, and so on.
FAQs:
Q: How long will it tale to finish the check process?
A: The time to finish the check process depends on drive size and bad sectors on the drive. It might be stuck if there are too many bad sectors. To check in a faster way, you can click "Quick Check".
Q: Could the feature "Check Partition" be used to fix bad sectors if bad sectors are found?
A: This feature is used to check and find bad sectors on a partition or drive. It is unable to repair or fix bad sectors directly. You can use other repair tools to repair bad sectors.
Q: After I use the "Check Partition" function to repair the partition, the program still prompts that there are errors in the partition, how can I solve it?
A: It is recommended to use the chkdsk command that comes with Windows to repair the partition.
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