Check your hard drives for bad sectors with Windows Surface Scanner
Windows Surface Scanner can help you quickly identify drives with bad sectors. It can perform a quick surface scan and determine how many physical errors the selected drive(s) have.
The program is very small and does the job well. I tested it on a 600GB drive and it completes in about an hour and a half. Note that it only scans the drive for errors and does not “repair” the errors as many other programs do. Considering the speed of the check it is a nice program to have.
You may be getting BSOD, computer freezes, etc. because of bad sectors, or maybe something completely different. Since usually bad sectors on a drive are hard to diagnose this tool can help with the diagnostic.
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