BadNTFS PRO for Windows Vista-Win11

Version 2.21 [15.06.2024]

System requirements: Windows Vista and a working WMI, 2GB of RAM.

Copyright (c) 2017-24, Dmitry Kuznetsov

The program is able to find and mark ALL unstable and defective clusters on an NTFS partition,
including those that are ignored by the "Self-Healing" NTFS function,
S.M.A.R.T. the disk itself (no sector remap is performed) and are not detected using chkdsk.

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Function comparison between PRO version and free version	v2.21 PRO	v2.14 FREE
The number of bad chains that can be written to $BadClus (contains all bad disk)	Any	~120
GUI (supports S.M.A.R.T.)	+
Set scan area	+	+
Set read/write buffer size (affects speed)	+
Reading the list of bad clusters into a text file from $BadClus	+	+
Converting cluster numbers to LBA and back	+
Search for bad clusters on disk (read)	+	+
Fast scanning mode (much faster with a large number of bads)	+
Overwrite free disk space, detect bads during writing	+
Overwrite/remap sectors in bad cluster (remap not guaranteed)	+
Overwrite/remap all bad clusters on disk (remap not guaranteed)	+
Search for unstable clusters (with read time higher than specified)	+	+
Clear $BadClus (no scanning)	+	+
Loading bad clusters from a file before scanning	+	+
Adding clusters from a file to $BadClus (without scanning)	+	+
Adding a continuous chain of clusters to $BadClus (without scanning)	+	+
Optional, automatic deletion of corrupted files	+	+
Optional addition of bads during scanning to skip defects	+	+
Optimizing the list of bads by eliminating the gaps between them	+	+
Autosave logs	+	+
R/O mode	+
Autosave testing position	+
Resuming testing from last tested cluster	+
Program integrity check	+
Check for updates	+