How to Scan your Hard Disk for Errors and Repair them


You might have felt that with the continuous usage of computer over the time, our hardware degrades. After a long time hard disk starts creating errors. So in case any body is finding that your hard disk to be too slow or making some noise while performing any read or write operations, then make sure that in your hard disk something is wrong and for those this post will help in solving this issue.

Since our hard drive contains a lot of important information and data we will advise you to backup it first in external hard drive or some USB drive. 

One can try at his own to fix hard drive errors through Windows default Chkdsk utility. Chkdsk utility can be found in any version of Windows Operating system. To use this open My Computer / Computer and right click on any drive and go to Tools tab. Now below "This option will check the drive for file system errors." click on Check button. It will check your hard disk for any errors and it will find and fix it.
Another way to fix the hard disk error is SeaTools for Windows. This is one of the best disk checking tools developed by Seagate, you can trust it. The tool is designed to scan your drives for errors and display the results so that you can take actions.
An interesting point to note here is that, you don’t need to download other tools (in case your hard disk is not from Seagate), the same tool will work on your all hard disk. While downloading make sure that you have select right operating system. SeaTools for Windows from Seagate company presently supports Windows XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Presently it does not support Microsoft Windows 8 operating system.

There are other tools also available on the internet for the same purpose, but this one would sufficient to your needs. So in case you are facing difficulties with your hard disk, better to get it scanned and find out the cause before claiming the replacement.


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