Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

I often used to help people in forums, where they mentioned that their hard drive had crashed and that they had lost all their data just because they did not check the health of their hard drive – and ...

Use these disk utilities if your hard drive has gotten noisy or your system has slowed to a crawl to make sure your drive isn't on it's way out Hard drives fail, and they fail often, with 22% of hard ...

The Windows tool Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with a zero, which is considered a secure deletion method. This applies at least to classic hard drives, i.e. HDDs with magnetic discs.