Windows Surface Scanner

Windows surface scanner is a hard drive tool to help locate unreadable blocks on your hard drive and ReLaTe those blocks to certain parts of the file system. This tool can be used to diagnose certain characteristics that may be exhibited upon boot-up or during service that are directly related to unreadable blocks on a hard drive. As an example, if a drive has an unreadable block where the Master Boot Record is located this will cause the system to hang on boot. If the drive is a secondary or slave drive the drive may also be exhibited as a raw device.

With this being said this documentation is divided into two parts. Part one will be how to use the software and how to read some rudimentary error messages. Part two will be a quick start guide for those of us who hate documentation and just want to get started.