Downloaded and installed easily. Have Windows 7, 64-bit. Registered to Giveawayoftheday. Says my disk status is perfect, performance and health are both 100% excellent. hmphh. almost sounds too good.

you guys have to learn to work w/shoddy sites like sometimes. For example, tonight i too did not receive a link to my email, so i went the social route, and wah-lah, all was good w/the world. Now since i just beat the deadline and havent been on this site in years, it still has the same underpinnings. If you need help just holler, it's a easy walkthru, trust me.

I downloaded and installed this program yesterday and played around with it on and off since and I am truly impressed with just how informative it is. It is a great program to have on your computer. Highly recommended!! Thanks GOTD and Hard Disk Sentinel.

All you people with problems everyday on giveawayoftheday must either have a piece of crap computer or don't have a clue how to use it ! I've been using products from here for along time and have never had any problems with any of them !! Just follow the instructions !!

Tried to install on two different machines. Where the link on the GOTD page was live, it downloaded and installed without a problem. Where the link goes to another window and asks for your email address, the link sent in the email only validates the GOTD offer and runs the activation routine, but the actual software setup does not follow. So it appears the problem is a bad link when sent via email. Can't install something that isn't there.

Easy to install, and it spotted that although both my drives are 100% healthy they're only working at 67% performance because they're only operating in UDMA 2 mode (33 Mbytes/sec) whereas they're both capable of UDMA 5 (100 Mbytes/sec). Its suggesting that I could improve this by replacing my old 40 way IDE cable with a modern 80 way (didn't know they existed, will have to look into that tomorrow). It also spotted that my well travelled portable usb drive has several hundred bad sectors and is generally in poor shape, and will probably require replacing soon - suggests backing it up frequently until I do.
All in all, a very useful program which offers some sound advice.

Q1. How do you remapp failing (or bad) sectors with HDS Pro?

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I have read [http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel.php?page=requirements] and the pages linked to this page.

Q2. is it ever going to be possible to use HDS Pro or Enterprise with Network Attached Storage devices that use 2 or more HDD's at the one time (are you in discussion with any of the NAS Manufacturers regards "... detection of hard disk status (S.M.A.R.T.) information ...")?

Q3. As a work around to the NAS problems: is it possible to remove each drive from an NAS unit and test them separately with HDS Pro?

Many thanks in anticipation of a reply

Why is there nothing in ideas or feedback?

This is a great program. Download no problem, installed great, easy to read and understand. What I like, it reads all the drives including the USB drives. I thought one of my USB drives was acting up, and it is. My E drive is bad...good for another 55 days and Health at 23% (this is my backup drive). Also, in Windows Explorer, Hard Disk Sentinel Standard 4.60 puts a red or green dot next to the drive. This gives me time to save the data, and start shopping for a new one.

Perfect timing GOTD !!!

It happened again...same as yesterday gave my email for the download link - I downloaded and tried to install but only received a Giveaway Activation splash screen - No software installed anyone had a similar issue???

The program recognizes the two hard drives as being mounted in my computer but does no analysis on them.
These drives (a Western Digital and a Seagate) are 6 to 9 years old.
It does recognize (as a hard drive) and analyze a year-old USB external drive just fine.
It recognizes my other USB external (6 years old) as a "logical drive" but does not analyze it.

Is the program refusing to analyze those drives because they are older?
If so, it makes the program fairly useless to me. It's the health of older drives that needs checking.

I remember Norton Utilities had a hard disk analyzer that scanned each sector of the hard drive for read/write errors and, if found, attempted to fix it. What it was supposed to do was move any data from bad sector to good sector. Of course it never worked and they did away with it around the time Win95 rolled around.
The best hard drives in the world fail eventually - BACKING UP is the best hard drive utility around.

I have a bootable SD system disk. Would this program be of any use to someone running an OS from a SD drive instead of a hard disk?

I've been using this software for a couple of years and like it very much. Works perfectly on my windows 10 box. I definitely recommend it.

Installed fine on XP. Easy to read interface leading to lots of useful info. A keeper.

Best in class with strong developer support. Nice tool, but I don't let it start w/Windows. Using it periodically satisfies me. Already too many programs auto-start unnecessarily.

Downloaded,installed and (self)activated with no problems on Win7 machine. After a quick look see I must say I am impressed. Much information is presented here in a clean easy to read interface. The configuration tab lets you customize it to suit your own needs. I especially like the option to alert you when certain self defined things happen i.e. heat or fault issues. It will even shut down/back up a failing drive when it reaches a certain point. Overall ,as I said earlier, I'm impressed. A keeper for sure. Thank you GAOTD and to the developers for this fine software.

An good (and free) alternative: https://hddguardian.codeplex.com/

This is a fine piece of Hard Disk monitoring software. It was installed in a Windows 7 x64 PC with no problems, which happens to be more than 1 year old.

If your laptop or PC is from 2015 to the present time, you might first want to check if your hardware is supported in the latest v4.71 version, as today's offer may not be for you.

The release notes for v4.7.1 is found here: http://www.hdsentinel.com/revision.php

While today's version is 4.60 and is from January 2015, it still offers a wealth of protection, especially for older systems that should be monitored more often.

Release notes for todays version can be found here: http://www.hdsentinel.com/revision460.php

Thanks GOTD and Hard Disk Sentinel for today's offer, a keeper for sure since my PC is old and slow.

I was unable to download using either a chrome based or an IE based browser. Third time this has happened in the past two weeks.

Add SSD trim features

Installed cleanly on Win10HE, has a decent user interface, and is a lightweight (low system resource drain) disk monitoring tool.

I would however had preferred this be the freeware edition, and the Pro edition that is more useful and can be a portable, be the "Standard" edition.

Thank you for the including this GREATprogram. Program is working on 100%.

This is an excellent program, powerful and reliable. It has a bit more oomph than its freeware competitor, Crystal Disk Info. Quick and easy install, too.

Setup both installs and registers the program; a clean and pleasing interface on opening.

The display presents in a clear manner a huge amount of data about your hard drive, much of which I am unfamiliar with but it looks like learning will be interesting.

The display of disk activity something that would have been a great help a few months ago when I was getting 100% disk activity. The cause was a combination of Skype and Flash which took a lot of time to understand as to why.

The one function I would have liked to have seen is information about which program using the disc and where it is reading and writing.

Looks like he could be useful when problems start to arise and so I'll be keeping it.