Hard Drive Inspector allows you to predict a possible failure of the HDD before this occurs.Comments on:

By: Vilan

Vilan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:29:49 +0000

Brand new Seagate 320 GB drive came up as 51% Liability/Performance and Error Resistance. This has been installed 12 hrs ago. My second WD drive about 1 yr old was all 100%. I than installed another Seagate RMA drive I had just received (refurbished) from Seagate and it also came up as 60% L/P/ER. Both were “OK” and no action required. But those low percentages even on new drive don’t say much about this program and Seagate drives.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:46:33 +0000

Worked fine…until the time period ended. So much for it being the full version

By: Whiterabbit aka stephen

Whiterabbit aka stephen — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:10:43 +0000

Some of the programs I lost such as Blind Write, Web Stream Recorder, Sticky Password and Absolute Startup will be purchased when I can afford them. I’ve had plenty of time to evaluate these applications and really am pleased with them. I’ll be able to evaluate todays software on one of my other computers so may even buy it if I think it’s useful.

By: Whiterabbit aka stephen

Whiterabbit aka stephen — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:06:31 +0000

Thanks to the Leecher comment #73 for his link to other freeware utilities that do a similar job. I searched through every comment hoping to find useful links as I had to update my main computer last week, so missed this useful application. The link takes you to a site that lists quite a few freeware as well as shareware HDD health monitoring applications. I downloaded a few and am really pleased with what I found. So if you lose the Giveaway for any reason, just check for the freeware alternatives. They may not be as good looking or cover all the area’s the commercial software does, but using 2 or 3 of them covers all the bases. Thanks again GAotD for this brilliant site.

By: Bankole

Bankole — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:59:01 +0000

my hard drives got the heart smart check of approval.

By: Chau

Chau — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:27:54 +0000

Thank you for GAOTD. You have given us many useful software. But this Hard Drive Inspector is not as good as I think. It annoyed me by appearing continuously whenever I run any program . Finally, I have to uninstall it. Luckily, I can do that.

By: francesco

francesco — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:18:28 +0000

S.M.A.R.T. technology revealed itself useless in recent Google disk failure experience.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:41:51 +0000

I’m getting a temp alert at 124F, da hell?

By: Phil K

Phil K — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:30:42 +0000

Didn’t work for me from the off.
White cross on red background, send error to makers kind of thing.
Not much use, then !
Thumbs down from me
(And to those that scream blue murder when you criticise free stuff that doesn’t work – what the hell is the point of NOT saying something doesn’t work ?)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:22:53 +0000

OK I guess, but doesn’t do much. Gives temperature of the disk drive and that’s about all it does that might be useful. It doesn’t even go that right though as a temperature of 109 for example displays as 19 in the tray. Anytime the middle digit is 0, it does that. Worth what I paid for it which is nothing.