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 Post subject: Thorough disk scanning
PostPosted: February 19th, 2018, 21:22 
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Mhdd's scanning only performs READ ONLY scanning. But there might still be a problem with writing data into sectors. Is there a piece of software that performs more thorough test i.e. READ-WRITE test (destructive for data I understand)?

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 Post subject: Re: Thorough disk scanning
PostPosted: February 20th, 2018, 2:08 
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Here is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks

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 Post subject: Re: Thorough disk scanning
PostPosted: February 20th, 2018, 21:00 
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Hard Disk Sentinel can perform :
– read scan
– write scan
– write + read
– read + write + read (that one *should* not cause data loss, it re-writes the sectors just as they have been read, but it's highly recommanded to backup anything remotely important beforehand ; obviously it's a very long test, and there shouldn't be any power failure until it's over, better use a UPS)
– and “disk repair” (it's supposed to do a read scan, and only attempt to write on weak sectors, so as to restore them if possible, or reallocate them if not)


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