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Ideally, when the Overview page of Hard Disk Sentinel shows a new problem (for example one or more new weak sectors appear on the drive) this test can quickly determine the actual location and specifically test, diagnose and repair them - without performing a complete scan of the disk surface (as the Disk Repair test would do). The Quick Fix test first determines which areas of the disk drive should be tested at all: which sectors could be damaged and may require repairing. File(s) on the affected repaired sectors are listed when the test completed. Possible damaged files will be readable, however file fragment(s) on damaged sectors may be corrupted. The test can be used on both system and secondary drives and it is safe for stored data. Unlike a complete scan, this test may not able to find and correct all possible problems, so best used on disk drives with relatively low number of problems and high Health value reported to repair weak sector(s) without the need of complete backup (and use of the Reinitialize disk surface test). The test forces the disk drive to repair any problematic (pending, weak) sectors: restore the status to good or reallocate (replace from spare area) if required to prevent further use of the original sector. Verify which area(s) of the disk drive reported problems and written recently then diagnose, repair specifically those (and nearby) sectors and critical system areas.

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The purpose of the Quick Fix test is to (as described in the software when the appropriate test function selected):

The program measures operation time.Hard Disk Sentinel Professional 6.00 version introduced a new test: Disk menu Surface test -> Quick Fix. Test ends in the middle of the testing area. The first block in the first pair will be Block 0, the second block in the first pair will be Block N (where N is number of last block for testing).

Butterfly Read mode is similar to Read mode difference only in blocks' order.

The program tests blocks one by one from minimum to maximum. The program sends the block of data to the drive and the drive writes the block (All previous data in the block on the drive will be overwritten with the pattern and cannot be recovered after that!) The program measures operation time for each block. In Erase mode the program prepares block of data field with special pattern and an LBA number.The program reads block of data into a temporary buffer and measures time of operation for each block.

In Read mode device reads block of data and transfers it thorough interface to the host controller.The program measures operation time for each block. In Verify mode device reads block of data into drive's internal buffer only and checks for consistency, there is no data transfer through an interface connector/cable.Verify test may work in unreliable way on USB/Flash devices.

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Verify test may have restrictions on Block Size with 256, 16384 or 65536 sectors because of Windows limitations.

Author wasn't able to get stable test results with two or more simultaneous tests.

The program should not be run from a read-only device/media.

Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 (with restrictions), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Spindle start/stop function on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.

Reporting defect information on SCSI HDD.

Changing AAM, APM, PM parameters on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.

Reading and analyzing identity information from ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.

Temperature monitor for ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.

SMART tests running on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.

Reading and analyzing Log Pages from SCSI HDD.

Reading and analyzing SMART parameters from ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.

Reading in Butterfly mode (synthetic random read).

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Reading in linear mode – same as verification but also transfers data to the host.

Verification in linear mode – fastest way to determine if your drive needs data rescue, has recoverable errors or in its perfect shape.

USB Flash (pen drives) – surface tests only.

RAID volumes made of ATA (IDE) / SATA / SCSI HDDs (surface tests only).

FireWire or IEEE 1394 HDD (see Appendix A).

External USB drives and all major USB boxes (see Appendix A).

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