Hard drive scannning sotware

[Lord Flashheart]

Hi
One of my hard drives is getting a little slow. I am looking to find a free scanner that scans it, looks for the bad sectors and marks the slow ones as bad.
It will then be retaskted for non imporetant storage as it will eventually fail.

I have 4 hard drives in my PC 4TB, 2 TB and two 1TB drives.
It is one of the 1TB drives.
The 1TB drives I will put into a striped drive to hold games. It is cached by 3 old 60 GB ssds in striped configuration. It is for speeding up access & not reliability.
Everything is backed up on external hard drives to be sure.

Any suggestions for decent free software to do this.

[OLDMAN🎅]

windows defrag
https://www.lifewire.com/defragment-your-windows-7-computer-3506874

https://www.lifewire.com/free-defrag-software-tools-2619172

[Lord Flashheart]

I have defragmented the drive already. That is not the issue. Some blocks on the drive a slow to read and want to mark them as bad so no longer used.

[Talby]

Check the SMART status of the drive, it should give you some idea of the overall health of the drive. Example here[www.howtogeek.com]. You can also run some SMART diags as well, if the drive does not pass or has too many sectors failing it will show in the stats.

[OLDMAN🎅]

Originally posted by Talby:

Check the SMART status of the drive, it should give you some idea of the overall health of the drive. Example here[www.howtogeek.com]. You can also run some SMART diags as well, if the drive does not pass or has too many sectors failing it will show in the stats.

Old drive I get a new one, I never had a Hard drive and SSD failure

A Hard Drive's Life Span. Generally speaking, you can rely on your hard drive for three to five years on average. The online backup company BackBlaze analysed the failure rates of their 25,000 running hard drives. They found that 90% of hard drives survive for three years, and 80% for four years

https://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/

[Omega]

Don't download random crap software.. Run "chkdsk /f c:" in the CMD with admin rights.

[OLDMAN🎅]

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't download random crap software.. Run "chkdsk /f c:" in the CMD with admin rights.

CHKDSK isn't going to do crap on fixing a slow Hard drive.
CHKDSK (short for "check disk") is a system tool in DOS, OS/2 and Windows. It verifies the file system integrity of a volume and fixes logical file system errors. It is similar to the fsck command in Unix.

[Omega]

Originally posted by OLD*MAN:

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't download random crap software.. Run "chkdsk /f c:" in the CMD with admin rights.

CHKDSK isn't going to do crap on fixing a slow Hard drive.
CHKDSK (short for "check disk") is a system tool in DOS, OS/2 and Windows. It verifies the file system integrity of a volume and fixes logical file system errors. It is similar to the fsck command in Unix.

Originally posted by Beavis:

I am looking to find a free scanner that scans it, looks for the bad sectors

I gave OP exactly what he asked for.

No software is going to magically make your HDD faster.

[Morethan2Letters]

Originally posted by Beavis:

Hi
One of my hard drives is getting a little slow.

HDDs are already slow.

[OLDMAN🎅]

SAVE AS Defrag.bat edit the drive /E D: /U

@echo off
C:\Windows\System32\Defrag.exe /E D: /U
echo.
echo.
echo =========
echo D O N E
echo =========
echo.
echo.
echo.
pause

Originally posted by Advanced3:

Originally posted by Beavis:

Hi
One of my hard drives is getting a little slow.

HDDs are already slow.

Not on a RAID controller, I ran high performance HD on RAID for long time then SSD came out.

[Morethan2Letters]

Originally posted by OLD*MAN:

Originally posted by Advanced3:

HDDs are already slow.

Not on a RAID controller, I ran high performance HD on RAID for long time then SSD came out.

So haven't I, and they're still alot slower than a SSD.

[Talby]

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't download random crap software..

Well if you are already running windows... <ahem> 'nuff said.

Originally posted by Omega:

...Run "chkdsk /f c:" in the CMD with admin rights.

Possible it's a short term fix only. Smart stats will tell you if you have bad sectors increasing allocation over a time period. To use windows built-in commands to view smart stats - oh wait... It's windows.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Talby:

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't download random crap software..

Well if you are already running windows... <ahem> 'nuff said.

Yup. I am already dual booting Linux.

Free software, whoo!!!

[Talby]

fully agree, if it were my drive I would boot up linux and do a destructive write "badblocks -svw /dev/sd{xx}" will force a 5 pass write to every sector.

Probably have to run overnight, cross fingers then check on it in the morning.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You don't need any such software; WinOS has CHKDSK and Disk Defrag; thats generally all you need. If the drive is slow still, buy faster Drive(s). HDDs are only ever slow, period... that is the only speed they will ever be. Going from one HDD to another still equals everything is still slow. Just when comparing one drive to another, u might see benchmark differences, in the real world, all HDDs are slow. Hence why you install the OS onto an SSD. Use HDDs for general storage.

[Lord Flashheart]

The whole pupose of this post was to find a method of using the drive without purchasing another. If it means slightly reducing the capacity then that is fine. There are sectors of the drive very slow and are looking for a utility to mark them as bad. It will eventually fail but will be using it for recoverable data.