Checking if your SSD or hard drive is healthy in Windows
Find out which local or third-party tools can help you predict a potential failure.
If you are old enough, you will have experienced at least a few fears. death of hard drive or SSDand now even if you try to make frequent backups and maintain a “healthy storage life” – let’s call it that for example – you definitely want to know exactly what’s going through his head. your storage unitsif something hurts, if it’s too hot… in short, if it’s in good shape. Supposedly, SSDs last much longer than HDDs, but you never know…
For this there are several tools to help you learn about temperature, temperature. read or write error rate, activation time etc. In short, what matters is your learning. identify problems anticipating possible malfunctions that send your units on a march and leave you irreparably baffled as you have lost all your photos and… Unfortunately, only this happened to us.
Native Windows methods to check drivers
Windows has several tools to perform basic checks regarding the operation of storage drives. about CHKDSK and WMIC commands. The first is used to scan them and see if there are system errors or bad sectors, but the second already works with the SMART function (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology).
Scan with CHKDSK
Before you start checking with this method, remember that the tool needs full access to the drive you want to scan, so if it’s in use, you will not be able to execute the command. However, if you try, Windows will ask if you want to run it when you reboot the system.
- Open Command Prompt by opening the start menu and typing directly “.cmd“.
- Right click on the first result and then click normal”Execute as administrator“.
- Type “chkdsk X: /f /r /x” and press Enter. In “X:” you should write: drive letter The following letters you want to scan correspond to the functions performed and “/f” is a search. disk errors; “/r”, a bad sector scan; and “/x” is a function remove the drive first and then contains the “/f” function itself.
- in case you try Check drives formatted as NTFS, you can type “chkdsk /scan”. If you start seeing strange behavior on disks of this class, it’s a good idea to run it.
WMIC command
In this case, the command is used to perform several administrative tasks, among which SMART function we mentioned above, but the results will be simple and very preliminary.
- Open Command Prompt by opening the start menu and typing directly “.cmd“.
- Right click on the first result and then click normal”Execute as administrator“.
- To write “wmic” and press Enter.
- Type the command “get disk drive statusPress ” and Enter. Then a scan will be performed, which will clearly display the status of the drive.
Check your SSD with third-party programs
It’s fine for the above two commands start diggingbut if you want to go a little further complete the notification There are third-party apps available in your storages. Use the SMART function. The most logical is CrystalDiskInfo, free but very powerful because it reads SMART attributes and is also one of the few applications of its kind that can retrieve data from any internal and external interface. Another option is to use your manufacturer’s custom app. Intel, Samsung, WDetc.
picture | SamsungMemory
Source: 3D Juegos
