How to check hard drive for errors

Whenever our systems hard drives get any type of problems like noisy sounds, reading errors etc. then it definitely effects the overall performance of our computer system.It is recommended to check your hard drive partitions for any kind of reading errors time to time.For this Windows provide us a option for checking our hard drive partitions for any kind of reading errors and its performance has been satisfactory.

But if you want a dedicated advance tool for checking your hard drive for errors then Ariolic Disk Scanner,a freeware with a nice visual interface is quite nice tool for you.Ariolic Disk Scanner is a portable application that can be run from any location without installation.

This tool has very nice visual interface, you have to select a particular windows hard drive partition and then start scan.After this it will represent every readable sector by a green square and unreadable sectors or parts with reading errors are represented by a red square .Almost every type of drive can be scanned including hard disks, floppy disks, CD or DVDs and flash drives.

This tool is nice for finding reading errors but the problem is that it can not correct them unlike windows check disk tool.

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