: Most modern tools do not truly “regenerate” sectors; they remap bad sectors to spare areas. True regeneration is controversial and not proven effective for physical media damage.

When the scan finishes, note the following:

The is best understood as a demo — useful for scanning and confirming bad sectors, but practically useless for repairing any drive with more than one defect. While it served a purpose in the late 2000s and early 2010s, modern storage technologies (SSDs, SMR drives, >2TB HDDs) and free diagnostic tools have largely made it obsolete.