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How to Make Hard Disk Repair With Free HDD Repair Software

Before you start, you should manually check your power supply and the heat of your fan. Make sure that they are working properly. And then, take the following solutions for HDD repair.

1. Run Antivirus

Connect the hard drive to another Windows PC and use a reliable antivirus to scan the drive. Sometimes, viruses and malware can cause such errors. Therefore, an antivirus scan may repair the corrupted hard drive and make the drive accessible.

2. Check and Repair Hard Disk Error in Windows 10/8/7 

Try Windows built-in tool to check and repair hard disk error first. If it works, you can easily access your data. Here's how to do it in Windows 10, 8, or 7:

Step 1. Open "This PC/Computer", right-click the hard disk or partition which you want to check and click "Properties".

Step 2. Select "Tools" and click "Check now" under Error-checking.

Step 3. Check Disk Options dialog will show up and select any one of the following options to check and repair hard disk.

Step 4. Select and check both "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of back sectors", then click "Start".

• To run this tool in read-only mode, click "Start".
• To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the "Automatically fix file system errors" checkbox, click "Start".
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors and recover readable information, click "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors", click "Start".

After the whole repair process, your hard disk or hard drive partition shall be able to work normally. You can then try to access saved data on the hard drive.

3. Run SFC Scan

The SFC Scannow option is one of the several specific switches available in the SFC command. It helps fix the damaged or missing Windows system files that may cause drive corruption.

Step 1. Open the command prompt window. 

Step 2. Type sfc /scannow in the command prompt window and press "Enter" on the keyboard.

If the drive is a portable drive, type SFC /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=c:\ /OFFWINDIR=c:\windows and replace letter c: with your hard drive letter.

Wait for the scan to finish and then restart the system. You can try again to see if you can access your hard drive.

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4. Check File System With Free Hard Disk Repair Software

To check and repair file system error that causes hard disk drive corruption, you can use the free hard disk repair software - EaseUS Partition Master. It enables you to check bad sectors and prevent data corruption by fixing the file system errors with the Check File System feature.  

In addition to the HDD repair, this partition manager software also provides variable useful partition organizing functions, such as resize/move partition, clone, merge, create, format, and delete partition, convert MBR to GPT, convert a logical partition to primary or primary partition to logical, and FAT to NTFS partition.

Step 1. Open EaseUS Partition Master on your computer. Then locate the disk, right-click the partition you want to check, and choose "Check File System".

Step 2. In the Check File System window, keep the "Try to fix errors if found" option selected and click "Start".

Step 3. The software will begin checking your partition file system on your disk. When it has completed, click "Finish".