Hdd Monitoring Software

Hello,

First post in a long time. So long in fact that I had to re-register. Ive lurked forever but now have a question.

I have a Windows 10 PC with several HDD's of various sizes from different manufacturers and am wanting a program to monitor them for performance and potential problems.

I have used Hard Disk Sentinel in years past but it doesnt want to work for me now. Updated drivers caused the program to stop working correctly. The creator of the program wanted me to install older drivers. That didnt go well. I hated to not use that program as I was familiar with it and it had saved me before by predicting a failure, so I changed drives.

So here I am wanting a recommendation for a program that can monitor my drives. Paid or otherwise is fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Chrystal Disk Info is my favorite. https://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller

 

How bizarre, it didnt see any of my Hard drives.
Restarted my PC, still nada.
Ill have to do some Googling

 

Have a look over here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/hard_disk_drive_(hdd)_tools.html

 

Eldon,

Thanks for the link. Ive tried a couple of the programs but they dont provide much in the way of information. The issue seems to have to do with my system. For example I DL'd GSmartcontrol and while it sees my drives it doesnt provide S.M.A.R.T. info. Using the program GSmartcontrol and looking at the information under "view details" it indicates that the drive is not S.M.A.R.T. supported.
I dont know why this is the case. I used to have HardDiskSentinel monitor my disks without issue until I upgraded to Windows10 and now I cant get any program to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. info.

 

Strange that crystaldiscinfo wont see the drives as its SMART capable?

Can you run a check in DOS?
Open an elevated command prompt and run:

What shows?

 

This is the result :
Status
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK

 

Your all good then

 

I have been doing data recovery for 40 years now and using HDTune for testing since 2003. Every once in a while I hit a PC where the SMART (Health tab) info is dead blank and have come to believe it is related to the BIOS or driver handling of the drives. In those cases which are fairly rare, I move the drive to another PC.