Windows 10: Please Help: How to check if HDD inside Windows 10 PC is damaged?

My vote's for Hard Disk Sentinel - a very quick and handy statement of damaged blocks, if any, and interpretation with projected lifespan or warning that death is imminent, for example.

You can also some specific tests including a surface scan.

Can be left running to monitor continuously, and set whatever alerts you want, including an email option.

 

Too late now, you will never know. If you don't do backups you are stuffed. I have 3-4 copies of important stuff, not 1 on a 'maybe working' drive.
Professional data recovery costs a fortune.

 

You can use a freeware program to either copy and verify your copy, or you can copy and then use a freeware program to compare and verify afterwards.

Example:
15 Free File Copy Tools Tested for the Fastest Transfer Speeds • Raymond.CC
2. ExtremeCopy Standard 2.1.0
There are 2 different version of ExtremeCopy, the standard free one and the full shareware version. Functions such as copy or collision options, window position, failed file recovery and the buffer size are disabled in the free version, but you can still integrate it into Explorer to take over the standard Windows file copy functions. Pause, skip and verify are also present.
Read More: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-file-...ransfer-speed/

A search engine can help you find such things.

 

Your reply is appreciated!

Why is it too late now for me to know for 100% certainty that the files on my current HDD will be 100% identical when they're copied to the new HDD that replaces the current HDD?

 

Okay I just completed a scan of the hard drive using the free version of HD Tune 2.55.

Is there anything wrong?:

HDTune Scan 1st July2017 — imgbb.com

 

You should also look at the SMART params- different tab on that utility.
To post a screenshot- use the Insert Image icon above your post to the left of the video icon.

 

Thanks, but I just checked and I don't see the "SMART" tab?

I see these 4 tabs in HD Tune 2.55:

"Benchmark" "Info" "Health" "Error Scan"

 

Thank you so much!

Please let me know if you need any more information!

HDTUNE Scan 2nd July2017 — imgbb.com

 

The disk looks good- then there's chkdsk of course to check the NTFS file system - if you've not already run it.

 

I just took a screenshot of the values from HDTune that weren't visible in the screenshot from earlier.

Also, is the "Error checking" window I've included in the screenshot what you were referring to when you said "chkdsk"?

Thanks very much!

EDIT: Screenshot:

Next HDTune Scan 2nd July2017 — imgbb.com

 

Does the most recent screenshot I uploaded give anymore information about the health of my hard drive?

 

Everything in the S.M.A.R.T. data suggests a healthy drive. Perhaps in your case the most significant parameter is '(09) Power On Hours Count' from the first of your screenshots. At 24367 hours that's about 2.8 years.

There's little hard data on drive life expectancy, but the cloud storage company Backblaze has published what are probably the best real-life statistics. They describe themselves in 2013 as "a company that keeps more than 25,000 disk drives spinning all the time" and consumer-grade disks at that.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-l...k-drives-last/

So at nearly three years use you are right to start being concerned - but not to get too worried yet. Just make sure you make regular system images (just in case). You may well get up to three more years out of it.

Hard Drive Backup, Failure Rates, Prices - Backblaze