Hard Disk Sentinel can be used to prevent serious damage or data loss. It warns the user before a problem may occur and this gives opportunity to backup important and valuable data.

Updates: Added Vista-style hard disk icons:



More friendly user dialogs, better graphs, detailed help, major and minor improvements.

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How does it work?
Hard Disk Sentinel runs in the background and it is constantly analysing the status of hard disk(s). If an error found or unexpected behaviour detected, it warns the user about the current situation and it can perform actions.

Usually, hard disk status may slowly decline, from day to day. The S.M.A.R.T. monitoring technology can help to predict possible failures by monitoring the critical values of the drive (see the F.A.Q. section for more information).

Also it displays the current hard disk temperature(s) and logs previous temperatures which may be used to check the maximum temperature under high hard disk load. For the importance of the temperature, see the F.A.Q. section.

Do I need it?
If you are using a computer equipped with a hard disk and you want to ensure that your data will be available tomorrow, then the answer is YES. Hard Disk Sentinel is especially designed to you if

you are using more hard disks in your computer
you are using a mobile rack with a hard disk inside
you are using notebook computer
you do not want to lose your sensitive and valuable data

System Requirements

Windows operating system (Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 or Longhorn/Vista)
System administrator account (in service mode, it is possible to use without administrator rights and without even user logged in)
At least 5 megabytes of hard disk space
Hard disk with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II) or SCSI communication interface.
USB hard disks with Cypress AT2+ chip are supported.
Other type of external disks (USB or IEEE 1394) are NOT supported.