Hard Disk Monitoring

I found a day or two ago that HDS was displaying a 98% health rating for the SAMSUNG hard disk acting as C:\ of the PC concerned. In the past when I have found this to due to weak sectors, a Surface Test with the Disk repair (read test with sector repair) setting has resolved the issue. But not this...

Can you please clarify your answer? I am using Hard Disk Sentinel 5.30. The menu option Disk menu -> Surface test offers two choices. The first is a read test which I have carried out. The second is a write test which says that it "ovewrites the disk surface with configurable pattern." Whe...

Hard Disk Sentinel Scan Surface Scan 19 10 2018.png According to Hard Disk Sentinel, there is a single weak sector on the C:\ of my Windows 10 PC, as shown in the attachment. In contrast Windows CHKDSK reveals nothing wrong. Hard Disk Sentinel will not run a corrective test whilst the C:\ is in use...

Thanks. I will try this in the next few days.

Hello I have installed and registered Hard Disk Sentinel on two PCs of my own in the last few days. Everything seems to be in order apart from the following message given for the C:\ of one of the two PCS, i.e.: 174 errors occured during data transfer. At this point, warranty replacement of the disk...