{"id":217,"date":"2025-11-16T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:38:32","slug":"check-a-drive-for-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Check a Drive for Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CrystallDiskInfo is a popular option to check drives.  On Windows, it can be installed from the Microsoft store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will report drive specs as well as SMART data.  The data can be saved as text or image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png 676w, https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-256x300.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other options include vendor specific tools like SeaTools from Seagate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrystallDiskInfo is a popular option to check drives. On Windows, it can be installed from the Microsoft store. It will report drive specs as well as SMART data. The data can be saved as text or image. Example: Other options include vendor specific tools like SeaTools from Seagate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}