Comments on: Windows Surface Scanner Freeware Utility

By: EL Dopa

EL Dopa — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:36:14 +0000

That’s normal; bad sectors can still be ‘half readable’, meaning they fail like 50% of the time (before the degrade to 100% errors). Retrying the read a a couple of time sometimes succeeds. Sometimes it helps if you first read a higher sector number and then the bad ones – or just the other way around. Also the drive-temp can influence the result, etc.

By: Tak-Wah Pang

Tak-Wah Pang — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:27:50 +0000

I download this and use it to check my disks but encounter a problem,-

It report “data error (cyclic redundancy check)” for sector X and then continue to report the same error for sector X+1, X+2 ……… X+50 …… until I hit stop scan.

When I use a sector editor to read the same disk, the sector editor report read error for sector X, X+1 … X+7 but the sectors after that are all readable.

Any idea what cause this?

BTW, This is an external disk connecting to the system using USB.

By: Oss

Oss — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:49:03 +0000

The utlitly works great… Thankx for thw awesome tool!

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:23:35 +0000

Belga,

This is common for tools that access the hard disk. There are no viruses in the program. We have had over 10,000 downloads with no complaint. It is a typical false positive for a disk scanning utility. A lot of our full version data recovery tools also throw out false positives, but they are all certified clean by Softpedia as virus and trojan free. Here is a link to the page that has all the links to Softpedia.
http://www.dtidata.com/news/dti_software_approved_release.html

By: gumuruh

gumuruh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:41:36 +0000

then, after we done using this app, where’s the report anyway?
and what should we do next other than recovering it?

bcoz, there should be another way to avoid the bad sector location rather than taking it out right?

By: Belga

Belga — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:09:21 +0000

Here is the result of a test by Virus Total on your exe-file :
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/bbb5945b44d2a38cdad32b4220aecc6874b5ff80f8d0df854f563f87c46788e1-1261121691

How do you explain this poor result ?

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:00 +0000

Reza

If this is Windows Vista or Windows 7 then you are going to need to see Yatti’s post about Windows 7 and for Vista try right clicking on the executable and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:04:48 +0000

Yatti
Thanks for the info on getting it to run in Windows 7 .. super helpful!

By: dobhar

dobhar — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:19:04 +0000

For Windows7 (32bit) I used Jacqui’s suggestion “Run as Administrator” and the “mount” was then successful.

By: reza

reza — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:17:34 +0000

How do I use the scanner …. when I click ‘Mount ..’ nothing happens …

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By: Yatti420

Yatti420 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:29:28 +0000

Thumbs up for the App… For Windows 7.. Right Click > Properties > Compatibility > Windows Vista > Run As Administrator Always.. Works Fine.. This is never going to be a Spinrite.. It may be more advanced then a chkdsk but it an only do so much.. Spinrite runs on bootup no os running etc also works better of internal controllers rather then USB which is slow and cruddy..

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:45 +0000

Joe,
Is this in windows Vista? If so try RIGHT CLICKING on the .exe file and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

By: Arthur W. Arre

Arthur W. Arre — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:02:53 +0000

Win7 Ultimate 64 opens but won’t mount no error just no action

By: joe

joe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:38:56 +0000

How do I use the scanner …. when I click ‘Mount ..’ nothing happens …

thx

joe