How to know the condition of your Computer Hard Disk

One cause of the computer often "Hang" is a hard drive that has been worn so there are parts that can not be accessed (bad sectors). Usually this can happen if the computers often shut down without shutdown or power which often die suddenly (without UPS). In addition it may also be because it's old hard drive that was already old.
If any part of the affected hard drive for bad sectors, it will affect the performance of your computer, whether it be slow to hang when running certain programs. In addition, the data that [had] saved is vulnerable to damage. If so, how do I check the hard drive on your computer?
There are various ways to check the condition of the hard disk, if the default Windows ScanDisk can use the facilities, but began to Windows XP to do this must restart ScanDisk first. How much easier by using free software. in addition to easier, looks better and informative too. Two examples of this are the HD Tune software and HDDScan
Another plus 2 software that is portable, so that we can take it anywhere via flasdisk and do not need to install to run it.
1. HDD Tune, Hard Disk Utility
In this application there are 4 main facilities (in 4 tabs), the Benchmark, Information, Health and Error Scan. Benchmark to find out how fast write and read access time hard disk access. Info provides information about the drive and support facilities in the hard drive as well as detailed information about the Firmware Hard Disk.
Health will give the condition or status of "health" hard drive. Error Scan to check if something is broken with the hard drive. Error facilities that we use this scan to check the condition of the hard disk. For accurate results then do not check with the Quick Scan, remove the check mark in the menu Quick Scan.
If there is a red-colored block, that's part of the hard drive is broken / error, and usually called with bad sectors. If the accessible parts that often cause the computer to hang. In addition to such information HD Tune also provides information on temperature / temperature of the Hard Disk.
Download HDtune
2. HDDScan
The second application is more specialized to check the condition of the hard drive (low-level HDD Scan), so the scan is more detailed information, by displaying the access time of each block (section) on disk. Information literacy is also included. HDDScan supports IDE / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB / Firewire hard disks and flash cards.
Download HDD-Scan