HDD Health

PanteraSoft's HDD Wellness is a portable item of freeware based on a great suggestion: monitoring your hard disks' S.M.A.R.T. data to signal you when temperature levels get too expensive, disk space obtains as well low, or indications point to putting at risk disk failing. HDD Health then problems pop-up, audible, or e-mail informs in any kind of mix you select. But while the most recent construct claims compatibility with Windows 7, we found that HDD Health would not display S.M.A.R.T. information in 64-bit Windows 7 setups, something other users have actually had concerns with too.

HDD Health and wellness is made to run in the history, typically when Windows starts, however its system-tray icon accesses its interface as well as setups. The program showed two tray icons, one each for our C drive (an SDD) as well as D drive (a conventional hard disk). Each showed Temp information as not offered as well as the drive's health and wellness at 98 percent, yet neither showed either drive in the program's drives menu, nor any type of S.M.A.R.T. data in any one of the supplied fields. The Partitions tab correctly identified our system's dividers as well as drive letters as well as the capacity and readily available area of each, and also the System tab revealed basic information concerning our PC, yet even clicking SMART Attributes on the Drives food selection stopped working to extract the information. We restarted as well as verified that our drives and also BIOS had S.M.A.R.T. capability allowed; they did. We needed to open the Help file from the program's system folder; one more indicator of incompatibility with 64-bit Windows systems. The Assistance documents provides excellent guidelines for making use of HDD Health but dropped no light on our troubles.

Our experiences mirror user records that recommend HDD Wellness works best in 32-bit Windows systems with a solitary hard drive as well as no exterior or USB drives. We advise downloading and install and also trying HDD Health and wellness for on your own, in your own system. If it shows S.M.A.R.T. information for your C drive, all is well, and also you can let HDD Health help you maintain it that method. If your system has S.M.A.R.T. made it possible for yet HDD Health doesn't display your drive's information, we would not trust it to monitor our drives accurately, whatever its condition display screen indicates.