What Is Surface Test? How to Do Disk Surface Test HDD/SSD on Windows 10
As disk usage increases, bad sectors may appear, potentially causing data corruption or loss. To identify bad sectors, use a disk surface test tool to perform a thorough examination of the hard drive. This can help detect any issues before they become severe.
What Is a Disk Surface Test?
A surface test scans a hard drive to identify and mark bad sectors, which are areas on the disk that are no longer usable due to physical damage or other issues. This process helps prevent data loss and ensures the computer avoids using these faulty areas in the future.
Qiling Partition Master can identify and mark bad sectors on a hard drive using its Surface Test feature, allowing the system to avoid using them.
This partition manager software enables the reading of bad sectors, allowing access to data stored on them, but prevents writing to them, preserving the integrity of the data.
How to Do Disk Surface Test on Windows 10 with Qiling Partition Master
To perform a surface test on your hard drive, download and install Qiling Partition Master on your computer, and then follow the steps provided by the program to run the test.
If you're planning to migrate your OS to an SSD or HDD due to numerous bad sectors on your current disk, you can utilize the Qiling partition tool to simplify the process.
Step 1. Open Qiling Partition Master, navigate to the "Disk management" page, select the disk you want to check, and then click "Surface Test" to run a surface test on the selected disk.
Step 2. Click "Proceed" button to start scaning sectors and all bad sectors will be marked as red.
It's Simple to Make Surface Test with Qiling Partition Master
Qiling Partition Master offers a one-click solution to perform a hard disk surface test and easily partition HDD/SSD to improve system performance using a simple and all-in-one disk management tool.
- Move unused space from one drive to another to free up disk space, such as moving free space from D drive to C drive.
- Resize/move partitions, create, format, delete, and merge partitions.
- To copy and clone an entire disk to another, even if the target partition is smaller than the source, you can use a tool like Clonezilla or Acronis True Image. These tools allow you to create a sector-by-sector copy of the source disk, including all data, operating systems, and applications, to the target disk, even if the target disk is smaller.
- You can convert a logical partition to primary or primary partition to logical, as well as change a FAT partition to NTFS, or switch a disk from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR.
- Erase all data on the hard disk to prevent information from being leaked or recovered.
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