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Current text has been written especially for the owners of the hard disk drives who frequently complain of the graceful degradation during the action of usage. Sometimes the decrease of effectiveness implies the appearing of faulty sectors on the surface of the hard disk, but in some instances such sectors can produce reading errors and some important information may be lost.

Statistics that is performed by the local service centers shows that actually a few of hard disks returned by the customers should be sent to the producer. Most of cases are just “false returns” when all the troubles of the hard disk may be resolved in several minutes. It is not necessary even to open the cabinet.

To solve the problems which have been appeared during the process of exploitation of the hard disk customers may use some software utilities. You might have heart about this kind of programs as it is also named diagnostic and recovery instruments. The most clients do not realize what are the purposes of that soft and how can it help them. Sometimes the process of returning of the hard disk can be quite complicated and demand much time spent only to determine the failure.

We should mention that there are no hard disks which do not have any defects obtained during the process of producing. There are no producers that may promote the complete absence of faulty sectors. You may see the addresses of bad areas which are mentioned on the packing. But today's models haven't got such. Of course, such sectors were blocked during the development of the disk. In almost every modern hard disk there is a controller which performs some functions of disk usage analyzer. It tracks the processes of reading and writing any data and helps to avoid errors.

In the newest hard disks the same controller is able to track the information received with assistance of S.M.A.R.T. and take needed measures to avoid the loss of important information. Read the rest of this entry »