El Capitan’s Disk Utility is a handy tool for troubleshooting and repairing your hard drive (whether you’re noticing that your Mac has slowed considerably or you have problems opening files and applications). You can find it in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. From Launchpad, click the Utilities folder and then click the Disk Utility icon.

• HDDScan is a freeware utility for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays, Flash USB and SSD drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. Attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc. HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular 'fitness test' for your drive and predicting its degradation, so you.
• Details of the hard disk If your hard drive has become strange to behave and there are any suspicions that there are problems with it, it makes sense to check it for errors. One of the easiest programs for this purpose for a novice user is HDDScan. (See also: Programs for checking hard disk, How to check hard disk using Windows command line).
• If your Mac is acting up, and you can’t find a software solution, these tools make troubleshooting a lot easier. Intel Macs built before June 2013 offer a program called the Apple Hardware Test; Macs built since then offer Apple Diagnostics.

In the left column of the Disk Utility window, you can see

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• The physical hard drives in your system (the actual hardware)
• The volumes (the data stored on the hard drives)

You can always tell a volume, because it’s indented below the physical drive entry.

• Any CD or DVD loaded on your Mac
• External USB or Thunderbolt hard drives
• USB flash drives
• Flash drives (like thumb drives) are external hardware devices that you can add to your Mac for additional storage room or as secure places to back up your data.

Here, you see one internal hard drive (the 1TB SATA entry, which is selected) and one USB external hard drive (the Toshiba entry). The hard drive has three volumes (Wolfgang, Ludwig, and Johann), and the USB drive has one volume (Time Machine).

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Disk Utility also fixes incorrect file permissions automatically. Files with corrupt or incorrect permissions can

• Make your Mac lock up
• Make applications act goofy (or refuse to run)
• Cause strange behavior within a Finder window or System Preferences

Using Disk Utility to repair your hard drive carries a couple of caveats:

• You can’t repair the boot disk or the boot volume if OS X won’t run. This statement makes sense because Disk Utility is launched from your boot volume. (The boot volume is usually your Mac’s internal hard drive, where El Capitan is installed.) If OS X isn’t booting completely or is locking up, you can’t launch Disk Utility.

To repair your boot hard drive if OS X isn’t running, you need to boot your Mac from El Capitan’s Recovery HD volume. Hold down the Option key immediately after you hear the start up chord to display the Mac OS X boot menu, and choose the Recovery HD volume. When the Recovery window appears, run Disk Utility. Because you’ve booted the system from the Recovery HD volume, you can repair problems with your start-up hard drive.

Select your boot hard drive or volume in the sidebar at the left, and the First Aid button should be enabled.

• You can’t repair CDs and DVDs. Because CDs and DVDs are read-only media, they can’t be repaired (at least not by Disk Utility).

If your Mac is having trouble reading a CD or DVD, wipe the disc with a soft cloth to remove dust, oil, and fingerprints. If that technique fails, invest in a disc-cleaning contrivance of some sort. Look for a CD/DVD cleaning kit.

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If OS X El Capitan is running fine, and you need to repair a disk or volume, follow these steps:

1. Save all open documents, and quit all running applications.
2. Click the Spotlight search icon on the Finder menu bar, type Disk Utility, and press Return. (From within Launchpad, click the Utilities folder and then click the Disk Utility icon.)
3. In the list on the left side of the Disk Utility window, click the disk or volume that you want to check.
4. Click the First Aid button and then click Run to confirm.

If Disk Utility does indeed find errors, they’ll be fixed automatically. Would you expect anything less from our favorite operating system?

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HDDScan is a freeware hard drive diagnostics utility which will perform a series of tests your your hard drive or other storage devices connected to a PC such as RAID arrays, USB flash devices and SSD solid state drives.

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To be more specific, HDDScan analyses the surface of a disk while using S.M.A.R.T. data to fetch different attributes about the drive. These include Rad Read Error Rate, Seek Error Rate, etc.

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In the main user interface of HDDScan, you can activate different tasks such as scheduling a task queue, selecting specific connected or installed mass storage devices and manage the different processes. By default, the device serial number, firmware and model are displayed.

After tests have been completed, details are displayed in the main user interface and can be exported as different file formats like HTML or TXT.

HDD Scan on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs

This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from hard drive software without restrictions. HDD Scan 4.1.0.29 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows 10 PCs but also without a hitch on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Compatibility with this HDD diagnostics software may vary, but will generally run fine under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP on either a 32-bit or 64-bit setup. A separate x64 version may be available from Artem Rubtsov.

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