Examine Disk Physical Integrity

The disk examination feature is designed to scan the physical integrity of the disks selected for this operation. Disk Examine step can be the preliminary step to Disk Erase, Disk Wipe and Disk Clone procedures.

To examine disks:

Select disks or volumes for examination

Use Disk Explorer to select one or more physical disks or logical volumes.
Open Examine Disk configuration dialog using one of the following:
- Click the Examine Disk command in the action toolbar
- Click Actions > Examine Disk command from main menu
- Click Examine Disk command from context menu
- Click Run Bach > Named batch command from toolbar or from Actions main menu to examine disks in predefined disk batch.
Figure: Examine Disk Options
Confirm examination options
Use tabbed views to adjust examination options if necessary. Available options:
Use Disk Examination Options in application preferences to specify disk grading attributes if necessary.

Note:
If only one disk was selected for examination than you can specify boundaries of examined area for selected disk.

Click Start button to begin examination process.
Observe examination process

In the Disk Explorer, you will see the progress of the examination in the slot of the drive being operated on. The progress will be shown as a progress bar, seen below:

Figure: Disk examination progress

As seen in the image above, the green progress bar will fill the virtual drive slot in the KillDisk application. The percentage of the examination completed and the estimated completion time will also be shown in the slot. Once this process completes, the word E X A M I N E D will flash in the slot space.

When erasing completes you can review results for the processed disks.