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What Is Surface Test? How to Do Disk Surface Test HDD/SSD on Windows 10

How do I know if HDD or SSD has bad sectors? What is a surface test and how to do an HDD surface test? EaseUS Partition Master can make hard drive surface test and check bad sectors for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/8 and Server 2003/2008/2012.

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Updated by Sherly on Dec 04, 2023
Written by Daisy

With the disk comes into increasing use, bad sectors will appear, and there will be more and more. The data stored in a bad sector may be corrupted or lost. How to know if there are bad sectors in the hard drive? You can make a surface test with a well-designed disk surface test tool.

What Is a Disk Surface Test?

A surface test is a scan of a hard drive (HDD or SSD) for bad sectors. Disk surface test does what it implies - it scans the hard disk surface, checks bad sectors, and marks bad sectors so that the computer knows they will be not used in the future. 

EaseUS Partition Master comes to help with its Surface Test feature. It can identify bad sectors by reviewing the hard drive. When it finds bad sectors, it will mark those sectors with red color so that the system knows not to use them.

This partition manager software allows the bad sectors to be read, the data stored on the bad sector is still accessible, but they cannot be written to.

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How to Do Disk Surface Test on Windows 10 with EaseUS Partition Master

Free download EaseUS Partition Master on your computer, then follow the steps below to perform a surface test and check hard drive for bad sectors.

If there are many bad sectors on your disk, and you want to migrate OS to SSD or HDD, you can also use EaseUS partition tool to help you make it with ease.

Step 1. Open EaseUS Partition Master. Right-click the disk that you want to check, and then click "Surface Test".

Step 2. The operation will be immediately performed and all bad sectors will be marked as red.

It's Simple to Make Surface Test with EaseUS Partition Master

EaseUS Partition Master provides the simplest solution to perform a hard disk surface test in one click. This all-in-one disk management tool makes it easy to partition HDD/SSD to improve system performance. 

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  • Transfer free disk space from one drive to another directly, such as move space from D drive to C drive.
  • Resize/move partitions, create, format, delete, and merge partitions.
  • Copy and clone an entire disk to another even the target partition is smaller than the source.
  • Convert a logical partition to primary or primary partition to logical, FAT to NTFS partition, MBR disk to GPT, or GPT disk to MBR.
  • Completely wipe out all the data on the hard disk to prevent information from being leaked or recovered.
  • Run HDD benchmark test to evaluate the computer performance.

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Updated by Sherly

Sherly joined EaseUS in 2022 and she has always loved writing articles and enjoys the fun they bring. She receives professional training here, focusing on product performance and other relative knowledge. She has written over 200 articles to help people overcome computing issues.

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Written by Daisy

Daisy is the Senior editor of the writing team for EaseUS. She has been working at EaseUS for over ten years, starting as a technical writer and moving on to being a team leader of the content group. As a professional author for over ten years, she writes a lot to help people overcome their tech troubles.

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