How to check and repair bad sectors on hard drives, SSDs or USB drives? (FREE)

After installing and launching the software, you can see the list of drives connected to your computer. Right-click on the disk you want to check or repair bad sectors and then choose “Verify Or Repair Bad Sectors”.

Click the “Start Verify” button, and the software starts to scan the drive and check if there are bad sectors.

You can see colored blocked on the right side of the window, such as, excellent, good, normal, general, poor, severe, and damaged. They indicate different health levels of sectors/blocks on your drive. If any blocks are marked as damaged and appear red, these are bad sectors.

The scanning process may take some time, especially for larger drives or slower drives. So please be patient during the scan. Once the scan is complete, the program will display a report saying if any bad sectors found on the drive.

If bad sectors are detected on the drive, you can attempt to repair them by clicking the Repair button. It is important to note that fixing bad sectors will destroy data, be sure to back up data in advance. To recover or back up data from a hard drive with bad sectors, you can refer to these guides: