Disk Scanner is a free tiny utility to check the hard drive for read errors. Disk read errors may be the first typical sign of the possible disk failure. Ariolic Disk Scanner makes a raw sector read check of the hard drive and shows the result as a picture of your disk, where the good and bad clusters marked, so you can see the status of your disk at a glance.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-02-22
• Size: 417 Kb
• Cost: Free

Physical bad sectors recovery tool for floppy and hard drives.

• License: Demo
• Language: English, Polish
• Release: 2007-11-03
• Size: 389 Kb
• Cost: 35.00 $

Software tool to monitor hard drive and logical disk activity. Small indicator on the screen will blink the same way as a hardware LED on a PC. A good replacement for the hardware HDD LED, especially when your PC case is not directly visible. HddLed Indicator includes an All-in-One mode, where all drive activity is monitored on a single indicator. Low system memory and CPU utilization.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-13
• Size: 678 Kb
• Cost: 20.00 $

HDD Regenerator repairs bad sectors using unique hardware independent technology. It supports many types of hard drives and repairs damage that even low-level disk formatting cannot repair. As a result, previously unreadable information is restored. Because of the way the repair is made, the existing information on the disk drive will not be affected!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-06-01
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 59.95 $

DiskMonitor automatically enumerates available networks and allows you to select disks to monitor and shares to iterate (admin access required). Critical, warning, S.M.A.R.T., and off-line alerts can be configured. Supports customizable HTML and text email alerts. Users can create disk utilization, directory security, user rights, and directory utilization reports.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-17
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 99.95 $

Laptop PC Monitor Power Off Software, power switch off, power settings xp, monitor power off, computer poweroff management

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-11-12
• Size: 337 Kb
• Cost: 2.00 $

This utility allow dramatically increase free disk space and power of system. Now you can simple run Smart HDD Stretcher and no more "Free Space Too Low" messages!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-05-06
• Size: 870 Kb
• Cost: 39.00 $

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-12
• Size: 922 Kb
• Cost: Free

HDD Temperature is monitoring software that protects your hard-drives from getting overheated. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. HDD Temperature Pro can monitor multiple HDDs, work as network service and send e-mail alerts.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Czech
• Release: 2004-11-24
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

HDD Temperature is monitoring software that protects your IDE and SCSI hard-drives from getting overheated. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. HDD Temperature Pro can monitor multiple HDDs, work as network service and send e-mail alerts.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Chezh
• Release: 2005-01-26
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 49.90 $

Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains your useful digital data but are unreadable by the computer. If your hard drive is damaged by bad sectors, it not only becomes unfit for use, you also risk losing information stored on it. HDD Regenerator will rescue your data in such situation.

• License:
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 59.95 $

Learn about HDD failure BEFORE it happens and save your valuable data. SIGuardian uses S.M.A.R.T technology built in every modern hard-drive to accurately predict the date when using a particular hard-drive is no longer safe. All HDD attribute values - safe and non-safe - are displayed real-time. This tool is also capable of monitoring HDD temperature and alerting you over the network or via e-mail when failure possibility is diagnosed.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian
• Release: 2005-01-11
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 39.90 $

Atrise FBI (Find Bad Information) is a tool to check your data CD/DVD, flash drive and a dying HDD for bad reading files (soft and true HDD bad blocks, wrong reading, faulty drive/cable, etc. Atrise FBI shows a full path to the current checking file, so it is very useful to find bad files even if your computer get frozen. Simply write a full path to the bad file and restart your computer.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-01-04
• Size: 341 Kb
• Cost: 25.00 $

HDD Temperature is monitoring software that protects your hard-drives from getting overheated. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. HDD Temperature Pro can monitor multiple HDDs, work as network service and send e-mail alerts.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German, Russian, Chezh
• Release: 2004-11-24
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 24.95 $

SIGuardian Lite is the tool what allows you to control health of your hard drives and prevent data loss of failures. Using technology included in all modern drives SIGuardian Lite estimate end date of hard drive lifetime, so you can make backup copy of all data. SIGuardian Lite combine power of modern technologies with easy-to-use interface and intended for beginners and home users. Protect your hard drive for cost only $15!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-12-22
• Size: 892 Kb
• Cost: 14.95 $

HDD Temperature Enterprise is hard-drive temperature monitoring software for corporate networks and small businesses. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern hard-drives, HDD Temperature Enterprise monitors the temperature of hard-drives, giving the system administrator real-time online access from anywhere. When the temperature goes up, the program sends e-mail alerts or shuts down HDD in danger to prevent overheating.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-10-11
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 190.00 $

Worried about a hard drive failure? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. Zero failures, 100% FREE to download and try.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-11-10
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: Free

Worried about a hard drive failure? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. Zero failures, 100% FREE to download and try.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-11-10
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 29.00 $

The simplest and most reliable method to protect data on a hard drive is to monitor its health. Even within a standard operating system, you will be able to protect your notebook hard drive if you add the HDDlife drive health monitor to standard utilities. It constantly monitors the drive state and shows you the health percentage. HDDlife gives recommendations and takes measures to ensure the health of your drive.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-05-11
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

MMD Logger with GDI tool is windows console-like program designed to log, save and analyze debug messages. With MMD logger you can easily control program flow, time and memory consuming etc. Debug features are switching on/off by defininig/undefining one parameter and no additional code is generated when logging is off. GDI tool reports GDI object creation and deletion, GDI memory leaks, and GDI function failures.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-10-19
• Size: 406 Kb
• Cost: 15.00 $