When a person is getting ready to spend a large sum of money they want the amount to be as accurate as possible.
DTI Data works closely with the prospective client to offer the best value for their dollar in addition to helping them accurately assess their data recovery situation.
One final note, while running the software if there are several bad sectors and it is taking a very long time to scan the drive then it is advisable to stop the scan. Never brute force a drive scan as it can cause more damage to an already tenuous situation. Tags: freeware utilities windows surface scanner. Joe, Is this in windows Vista?
Thumbs up for the App… For Windows Works Fine.. This is never going to be a Spinrite.. It may be more advanced then a chkdsk but it an only do so much.. Spinrite runs on bootup no os running etc also works better of internal controllers rather then USB which is slow and cruddy.. This is common for tools that access the hard disk. There are no viruses in the program.
We have had over 10, downloads with no complaint. It is a typical false positive for a disk scanning utility. A lot of our full version data recovery tools also throw out false positives, but they are all certified clean by Softpedia as virus and trojan free. Here is a link to the page that has all the links to Softpedia.
Retrying the read a a couple of time sometimes succeeds. Sometimes it helps if you first read a higher sector number and then the bad ones — or just the other way around. Also the drive-temp can influence the result, etc. Thank you, Dick, for making this useful utility free for us. I have scanned my hard drive but I cannot access the report — it wants to print or fax it and I am not connected to either.
Name Required. Mail will not be published Required. Each sector is examined for a read error. If a read error occurs the error counter will increment. This tool can be used to diagnose certain characteristics that may be exhibited upon boot-up or during service that are directly related to unreadable blocks on a hard drive. As an example, if a drive has an unreadable block where the Master Boot Record is located this will cause the system to hang on boot. If the drive is a secondary or slave drive the drive may also be exhibited as a raw device.
With this being said this documentation is divided into two parts. Part one will be how to use the software and how to read some rudimentary error messages.
Part two will be a quick start guide for those of us who hate documentation and just want to get started. Part One: Using Windows Surface Scanner After you have downloaded the software from our website install it upon the system you wish to use to examine the hard drive. Do not install the software on the drive that you are having possible read errors, as this will only exacerbate the problem and may render the drive totally unusable.
Once the software is installed execute it and you should be presented with the screen exhibited in Figure 1. The above screen is a standard disclaimer that basically says we are not responsible for any damage that may or may not be caused by using the software. In other words, use at your own risk. This is not to say that the software is dangerous or will write random data all over your active file system. If, however, you decide you want to use the software the following screen will be displayed as depicted in Figure 2.
This dialog box is the main work area. All scans, updates, and reports will be generated and displayed on this screen. This list box is used for displaying all the hard drives attached to the computer.
Media Model: All drives have a model type which is usually stored on the platters. This will help you determine which drive you are scanning.
Serial Number: All drives have a unique serial number found on the outside of the casing. This information can also be used to determine which drive you are scanning. Media Size: Displays the size of the drive in gigabytes and can also be used as a determining factor as to which drive is being scanned. Press it now to show all the drives that are currently found on your computer. Next is the Bad Block List area which is located in the center of the work area. The bad block list is fairly self explanatory.
This list will display all read errors found on the currently scanned hard drive. There are two ways to initiate a scan, first you can take the mouse and place it over the drive you want to scan. Click on the drive and then click on the Scan button.
The scan will start immediately. The second way is to take the mouse and place it over the drive you wish to scan and double click.
Figure 4 displays a running scan with some unreadable errors on the scanned hard drive. As displayed in the Bad Block List there are two errors. The first is an error that basically says the drive cannot seek to the position on the drive to read the block.
The second is an error reflecting that the data residing in the block is damaged and cannot be parsed. As you can see from the display of the Bad Block List it is divided into three areas. Block: This is the block number at which the read error occurred.
Error: This is the error the was returned by Microsoft in standard readable text form. Relationship: This column will explain in simple terms where the unreadable block lies in relationship to any found file systems on the drive. The relationship column is not populated until the scan has completed simply because the software does not know which file systems are located where on the drive. Once the scan is finished the artificial intelligence of the software will try and relate the unreadable block to the found file system.
This relationship is depicted in Figure 5.
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