# Is there some function in etcher to check drive for errors or such?

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**Created:** [April 23, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-some-function-in-etcher-to-check-drive-for-errors-or-such/6192 "2019-04-23T09:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marcel](https://forums.balena.io/u/marcel)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-some-function-in-etcher-to-check-drive-for-errors-or-such/6192/1 "2019-04-23T09:57:12Z")

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Is there some function in etcher to check drive for errors or such?

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**Author:** ![zvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a5b964/32.png) [@zvin](https://forums.balena.io/u/zvin)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-some-function-in-etcher-to-check-drive-for-errors-or-such/6192/2 "2019-04-25T07:55:02Z")

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Hello @marcel, there is no option to check for drive errors in Etcher.  
However, if you flash an image with Etcher and the flash and verification succeed, you know at least that the part of the drive that was flashed works as expected: we read back the same bytes that we’ve written.