Many PC users recognize the potential threat of dataloss caused by virusses and take appropriate actions for protecting themselves against virus damage. Not many know however that only about 7% of all dataloss is caused by virus damage while hardware damage is responsible for 44% of all dataloss!
Now that you know, dont you think its about time you start keeping an eye on your harddisks health?
Use HD Workbench to:
# Monitor your harddisks health using Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
S.M.A.R.T. is an early warning system that can warn you if your harddisk is about to fail (**). The early warning allows you to migrate your data to a known to be good disk.
Take proactive actions by scanning your disk on a regular basis. HD Workbench allows you to run quick tests, full read-only tests and full read/write tests. The full tests verify the entire disks surface.
The read/write surface scan is non destructive, there is however one exception: in case bad areas are detected HD Workbench will try to persuade the hard disks internal error management to replace the bad areas with sectors from the spare sector pool. Data within the bad areas is lost.
Use HD Workbench to evacuate data from a potentially failing disk to a known to be good disk by creating a sector by sector copy (including the MBR, partition tables and boot sectors), or by writing the data to a raw disk image file (***).
