Disk Examine

KillDisk offers different Disk Examination options depending on user needs. Each examination type has its own strengths and weaknesses, mainly tradeoffs between time and thoroughness. Any of the examination types can be performed on an entire disk or on some selected segment.

Examination options are required for disk integrity examination and optional for disk erasure but can be used to sort away faulty disk from following processing in sequence.

To examine disk integrity the following algorithms being used:

Partial examination

Examines a percentage of the disk equally segmented in a selected area.

Partial random examination

Examines a predefined number of randomly distributed sections of the disk within the selected area.

Read each sector in selected area

Examines entirely all the selected area. Because this reads each sector in the selected area it is the most lengthy, but thorough examination procedure.

Print examination labels

This feature prints labels automatically after examination completion using specific Disk Label Preset configuration.

Examine Grades

Based on examination results disks could be "graded" depending on amount of failed sectors. Specific grade attributes can be set on Examine Grades page of application preferences. Further Disk Erase command can be executed or canceled based on current disk's grade.

For each grade you can select Green, Yellow, or Red colors in order to represent the disk grade visually. Multiple grades may share the same color:

Limits for errors

Defined under the second grade disks section, the maximum read errors settings allow the user to define the maximum read error tolerance before a disk is categorized as a 3rd grade disk. Such disks are the worst grade level and are considered as unreliable for use.

Exclude unstable disks from further processing

If this option is turned on - all disks having any type of errors will be automatically excluded from further batch operations.