Top 5 tricks to check hard disk health in windows laptops
Hard drive is the memory of computer, the memory stores all important data in your hard drive.
while most computer parts can be replaced, the invaluable data of hard drive cannot unless you
have the backup of recent data. For this reason, it's important to check your hard disk performance
in windows 10 and windows 11.
There are many ways to check this-from inbuilt methods in windows11 and windows 10.
There are many ways to check hard disk performance this from built in methods in
windows to HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Use more two of the below methods we've listed below,
depending on preferences.
Topics on this page :
1) Optimize and Defragment
2) Check Hard Disk Health from the BIOS
3) Windows CHKDSK Tool
4) Use the HDD manufacturer's Tools
5) Use WMIC
1) Optimize and Defragment
SATA HDD have largely made way for much faster SSD, but they are still very popular and remains
an affordable way to store things like videos and pictures. SSDs work a little differently, and they
never need defragmentation because fragmentation relates to which the data is physically stored on
the drive, which is not a factor on SSD, they do sometimes need optimizing.
if you HDD is slowing down, then you should check to see how fragmented it is. you can do this
using the defragment tool which is inbuilt in windows.
1. Search Defragment and optimize in search bar
2. Select your drive which you would like to optimize, and click on optimize to run a scan for
fragmented files and optimize the drive for better performance.
2) Check Hard Disk Health From the BIOS
You can also run hard drive checks in the BIOS, free form any OS based interference.
Restart your system, and press Delete, F2, F12, or which over buttons the boot screen tells you
will take you to BIOS SETUP.
Once you enter into BIOS SETUP, the exact instructions will depends on your motherboard
manufacturer. Setting > Advance > NVME self test to test health of NVME drives.
On HP laptops, there is separate UEFI diagnostic tool that can go into "component tests > Hard
Drive" to run tests on one or more drives on the computer.
The BIOS is also a good place whether the hard drive you want to check is actually being detected by
your motherboard.
On HP and DELL laptops, we should able to check hard disk drive health by going to the BIOS and
looking for "Diagnostics".
3) Windows CHKDSK Tool
Windows CHKDSK tool is a inbuilt in windows tool that will scan hard disk to find bad sectors and
system errors. it will both scan and fix problems if there is bigger problem that it cannot fix.
you can use this tool to check both disk health and fix bad sectors and errors if possible.
1. press windows + R and type CMD and run it as administrator
2. enter ckdsk at the command prompt and hit enter. This run a basic scanning operation.
3. Use chkdsk /f /r to fix bad sectors and recover any readable data if possible.
4. Another option is chkdsk /f /r /x, which dismount the drive first. Microsoft has a full
list of parameters to use with chkdsk to check hard disk drive health.
4) Use the HDD manufacturer's Tools
Hard drive manufacturers provide free tools to check your hard disk drive health and performance.
the first step to know which one to use is, of course, know the make of your hard disk drive.
If you know the manufacturer of your hard drive, you can skip this part. if you don't know your
hdd manufacturer please follow the steps to know your hdd manufacturer.
1. Go to search bar and type device manager and click on it.
2. In device manager, open sub drives in disk drives and make a note of the model number of your
hard disk drive
3.Type the model number in google and that will show your hard disk drive manufacturer.
4. After that, go to the manufacturer's support page and search for its hard drive utility.
5) Use WMIC :
WMIC is a command line interface that lets you to perform many administrative tasks, along with
checking hard disk health.it use the self monitoring, analysis and reporting technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
feature of hard disk drives to see the status and give a simple conclusion, like OK, Pred Fail, etc.
it's still a very basic command that provides very little information but is a quick manner to check
hdd health.
1. Check a hard disk drive with WMIC, press Windows + R buttons to open the "Run" dialog.
2. Type cmd and click "OK" to open the windows command prompt window.
3. Type wmic and hit enter.
4. After that type diskdrive get status and press enter. You will notice the status of your hard disk drive
after a short delay.
What are steps to do if your Had disk drive is failing?
All of the above methods are give information to check hard disk health, but they don't fix the issue of hard disk drive
As a owner of computer should act quickly as if hard disk is going to fail. Even these above
methods show only health of your hard disk drive.
A few things should do at that moment if your hard drive is failing
1) Make a backup of all important files
2) Save work frequently
3) Make a list of all installed software and product keys
4) Have a another drive to save backup
Conclusion
After reading this blog, we hope you got the basic knowledge about to check hard disk health in windows laptops
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