Hard Disk Monitoring

My previous computer was Windows 7 based on which I used a tool to refresh stored data on my HDDs. My current computer is Windows 10 based which is not supported by that tool. I’ve read various comments by people that say HDS does the same thing by using “Read-Write-Read”. I don’t see this option an...

Thanks for an explanation of how the map works. Knowing that, now I really don't trust it. I get the feeling a catastrophic failure isn't too far down the road. I'm going to replace it. One of the other drives I have in the same machine has lots of darker spots also. I think I'll replace that one to...

Sorry, I forgot to answer your questions. There are 44 entries in the log. One entry was from the day before, but all the rest were put there the day of the crash. The vast majority (80%) of the problems read “Reported uncorrectable errors”. All of those errors are associated with event #187. The ot...

Thanks for the links and good info. Two days ago I did a read test and nothing changed. The health stayed at 89% and nothing new was added to the log. Yesterday I did a write test and again nothing changed. Health stayed at 89% and nothing new was added to the log. Today I did another read test and ...

A few weeks ago the health rating of one of my drives dropped from 100% to 99%. No big deal, but I was kind of surprised because the drive wasn’t in use. It only gets used once every 3 months for back-ups. Then two days ago it dropped another 2%. I didn’t like the trend I was seeing so yesterday mor...

No, I don't. Without exception I've found that those types of programs that are written to speed up your PC (IE: registry cleaners, several types of disk defragmenters, automated driver updaters, etc) cause more problems in the long run than they fix. Since I've quit using them I've noticed that my ...

Front360 - Sent you a PM. Hope you got it.

I have a drive that is rated at 92% on the health scale. Generally speaking, at what health rating should a drive be removed from service and why?

I would like to see an indicator added as well.

Sent another report. Let me know if it's not what you need.

“I'm not really sure if the issue is related to the gadget in any ways.” You are correct. I tried using my flash drives with, and without, the gadget running and got the same results as long as HDS was running. “Or do you mean the gadget is automatically re-enabled when you insert the pendrive?” No....

I use a few gadgets that monitor various pieces of hardware like the CPU, video card, mobo, etc., but they're just monitors. They don't have the ability to alter performance. I'm not using any type of performance enhancing software, and I don't overclock. The system is less than a year old and other...

I rely on seeing the disk activity being displayed in the graphics portion of the gadget. Unfortunately Windows is turning off this portion of the graphics quite often. I’m finding myself going into the Windows Registry (W7 Ultimate 64 bit) and resetting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlS...

That was a quick response. Thanks. It's appreciated. I tried the DOS prompt command and rebooted, however that didn't work. So I tried the Registry Editor and rebooted. That worked. Thanks. Seems strange that the setting got changed all by itself, but I've certainly seen stranger things happen. Anot...

System: W7 64-bit, 6 HDDs 1) In the latest version of HDS I was able to see all of the HDD activity of each drive in the Status Window Gadget. Everything was working fine until I looked at it earlier today and noticed the graphical screens that were showing the HDD activities of each drive were gone...