Scandisk

[ZeroCool]

When running Scandisk, you have the option of running a thorough scan or a normal scan. A thorough scan scans the "surface" of the disk. What <i>is</i> the surface?

[Dinosaur]

You are dealing with jargon which means that the Scandisk Utility will look at every place on the hard drive where information can be stored.

A hard disk really looks like one or more round flat metal plates with (I think) an iron oxide coating (At any rate, a thin layer of some magnetic material). Information is stored by magnetizing spots in the thin coating. That thin coating is called the surface.

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