Stellar Drive Monitor
Stellar Drive Monitor
Scan Disk module of Stellar Drive Monitor scans the hard disk for bad sectors. This process will report all the bad sectors in the disk that are identified in the scanning process.
Note: If your computer has multiple hard disks connected to it, you can select the desired drive from the drop-down list, located at the top-right of the user interface.
Run Stellar Drive Monitor.
Select Scan Disk from the left pane of the user interface.
Select a hard disk you want to scan from the drop-down list, located at the top-right of the user interface.
Click Scan. The scanning process starts, you can view the process in the SCAN DISK table.
Note: Processed blocks that are healthy show up in blue while bad blocks are colored red.
Note: The total time elapsed and the remaining time left in the completion of the scan process is also indicated at the right pane of the window.
Note: To abort the scan process at any time, click Stop. However, stopping a scan process will mean that running a new scan will start from the beginning, and not from the block it was stopped at.
Note: It is strongly advisable to create a Clone of a hard disk with bad sectors. A hard disk with bad sectors has a high probability of failure.
After the scanning is completed successfully the message is displayed 'Scan Completed'.
Click OK to finish the process.