Hard Disk Monitoring

Yeah, by now most of the programs I put on my "Tools PE" have a x64 version, but I have to carry a x86 PE for HDS.
A x64 compiled version of HDS would be great! We know it will not improve performance,
but since the x86 subsystem is missing on x64 PE, we need a x64 HDS...
Thanks.

Hi Janos.

You are right, I had no tasks defined - I created one and got an email from HDSAction!

Thanks!
Best Regards,

Good day. Today I installed HDS on another computer and tested email configuration -> Received 2 emails, one from HardDiskSentinel and one from HDSAction. Tested the same on my old computer -> Strange, I am only getting ONE email from HardDiskSentinel, not getting email from HDSAction. Not a fireWal...

Hey Muad'Dib. I agree that Hard Disk Sentinel should say that there is a new version but wait until user decides, to download and install it. However, I have to say, that the auto-update works very well, I have never had any issues with it. It even saves the old version inside the HDS folder (rename...

Good day Janos. Ah, you are correct, one of the icons is from the real program, but the other 3 are from hdsentineltray.exe. It does this all the time, switching icons, so I have to go back and tell windows to "yes show this icon" because by default Windows hides them. I did not know you c...

Good day Janos. > With other words, even if you could select XY drive to be excluded, there is no warranty > that the particular drive would be NEVER touched. This is why it is possible to customize the > ways (both displaying and also alerting to define specific thresholds) but not possible to > co...

Hi Janos.

Did you look at the screenshot? Do you understand what I mean now?

Thank you.
Best Regards,

Good day Janos! I am still VERY HAPPY about Automatic detection based on disk utilization! > Sorry for that. The installer contains the new, updated CHM file. If you may installed an older > version and used the automatic update, it is possible that the help CHM file not updated automatically. > If ...

Hi HDSentinel (you should really sign your messages with at least your first name, so I can say "Hi John" lol). Good news - Automatic detection based on disk utilization works perfectly ! Now that I know what it does, I think your solution is brilliant! Nice one, thanks a lot! > The manual...

Hi! Lol, I /think/ that what Windows uses to identify different tray icons is the window title? or the icon title? or whatever the hell it is that keeps changing in the HDS tray icon when a new drives becomes the one that has the highest temperature. It is still doing it with v5.20, with each disk m...

Good day. Why change the window title at all? We do not see the window, it is just a icon - or is the window title what Windows uses to show tooltip? I am on 5.20, but since I disabled HDS some time ago for the USB drives, all icons have disappeared from "customize" so I do not know if the...

Good day HDSentinel. I appreciate the time you took to explain, but everything you said prior to "Automatic detection based on disk utilization" I knew already. I know that reading SMART data wakes the drive, and I know that my USB drives have their own power management, and that they do n...

Good day. While I'm here for something else, I would like to ask about an issue with the Tray Icon. I set HDS to show only 1 tray icon, showing only the one disk with the highest temperature. This works well, but Windows treats every disk as a separate icon. What I mean is that if I tell Windows not...

Good day. I am trying to setup sleep times for my disks, trying to see what is preventing them from sleeping. One thing I have discovered is that HDS is keeping my USB drives awake. They are all Western Digital Passport drives, and it is easy to see when they sleep because the LED on the drives star...

I tried starting a new thread for this, but the forum throws an error: General Error - Tried to redirect to potentially insecure url. So here is MY experience upgrading to the new version: About 2 weeks ago, a module of HDS which I had not allowed through the firewall generated an alert (harddisksen...

Good day all. Since I posted those small steps to get you started with WAIK (Windows 7 based PE) I have moved on to WinPE 5.1 (Windows 8.1 Update 1 based). And I found a package that makes Realtime performance data working fine (so HDS works 100% under WinPE). I think the package is WinPE-StorageWMI...

Alright, so I played around with WAIK (version 3.1, Windows-7-based) and HDSentinel appears to run just fine under it - amazing, you've managed not to depend on anything fancy, and not to crash when things (like the Systray, WMI, etc) are missing completely. Realtime performance data is unavailable,...

Good day. Small problem, not sure if you can reproduce. I ran HDSentinelTray.exe for the first time under Limited User, then right-clicked it and selected "Only Show Highest Temperature". It tried to create "HDSentinel_tray.ini" in "Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Hard Disk Sentin...

There are ways around the distribution restrictions; Ghost for instance comes with the PE WIM and builds the ISO with that. But alright, I'll look into it and try to remember to reply back with some sort of instructions on how to do it... Thanks for the reply. Just bought a 5-pack pro license; good ...

Good day. Suggestion: Make a WinPE ISO for the portable version - this would save me the trouble of learning how to configure PE to run a program and then build it with DISM and WAIK/WADK. Portable version is needed to be able to do the "read/write/read" test on system partition when said ...