Fails to find & display S.M.A.R.T. data for NVMe SSDs. Otherwise it offers to run a disk check, repairing problems found and attempting to recover data stored there. I don't like to potentially repair conventional hard disks unless it's using software from the hard disk manufacturer. When Windows finds a bad sector it marks it, and that *mark* is stored in the tables so that it stays with the effected partition. Some software will refuse to back it up from that point on, and if you clone that partition, or restore a backup to a new hard disk, it will show the same bad sectors. When I encountered this several years back the fix I used was to copy the partition using AOMEI Partition Assistant, but I've no idea if that would work today. The app I recommend to quickly / easily check S.M.A.R.T. data is CrystalDiskInfo, which is lightweight, with a portable version, and it's incredibly simple to use -- every drive has a colored circle as an indicator, and if they're all blue, you're good to go. It does give more details, but generally you want to know if there are any problems and maybe the drive temp, and you see that immediately when you start the app. That's Not saying anything bad about Hard Disk Sentinel, which is on GOTD from time to time, but CrystalDiskInfo is just easier to see what you need to see as fast as possible.
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CheckDrive 2026 installed to Program Files (x86) with a folder added to Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local\. I actually didn't record any new entries in the registry, though it did rewrite the driver hive and while I don't believe so, I may have missed something.
Background...
Drives have built in diagnostics that record what's called S.M.A.R.T. data. It is Not infallible, and if that data all shows good, that does Not mean the drive won't fail in the next 3 minutes. S.M.A.R.T. data **Might** give you a heads-up that a drive is having problems and may fail sooner rather than later, and that's about it. You can run monitoring software constantly, or not, just running it every once in a while to make sure everything's cool -- it's up to you.