Surface Test

This feature could let you perform a scan on hard drive to looking for bad sectors. When a hard drive is manufactured, it usually contains some bad sectors. Over time, more can develop. And if data stored in these area it could be corrupt or lost, so to check the bad sector is needed.

Steps to perform surface test.

  1. Select the disk which you want to test;
  2. Right click the disk, select Surface Test;
  3. In the popup window directly click start or by clicking quick check to perform a quick scan.

Note:

This feature could find out the bad sectors, but to repair the errors you need use the SCANDISK tool or other special software.