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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 22, 2005
- Total Downloads: 41,847
- Downloads last week: 111
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on March 02, 2009
Hard Drive Inspector Professional keeps all of your system's attributes and hard disk health information in one, nicely wrapped package. However, we found a minor discrepancy with the information it provided us.
The user interface is beautifully designed, with large command buttons at the top for saving and sending data reports, and configuration options. Tabs organized the diagnostic information into three categories: Health Summary, Technical Info, and S.M.A.R.T. Details. From the Health Summary window, we got a brief summary of the amount of available space left on our hard disks, our disk model, and the temperature; although the temperature given on the main interface did not match the temperature given on our taskbar. But beyond that, we were able to view, in detail, our hard disk information, including serial, model, and firmware numbers, as well as logical and physical geometry info. The S.M.A.R.T. Details listed our system's attributes, along with their current stages, values, and flags.
The Help file does offer more detailed explanations of the program's features, so you don't have to be an expert to know how to read the information it provides. Though we would have liked to have seen a trial period longer than 14 days, we still recommend this program as a worthy diagnostic tool.
Publisher's description
From AltrixSoft :Hard Drive Inspector is a S.M.A.R.T. technology-based program, which allows controlling the state of your hard disk drives. As the access to electronic information becomes more and more vital in business and at home, Hard Drive Inspector allows exceeding the traditional limits of HDDs reliability, thus extending the level of valuable user data protection. The program has a flexible option system, which allows you to customize the functionality of this utility according to your needs.
Version 1.2 build 824 fixed a bug which may arise on some installations of Windows 95/98/Me.
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Version: Hard Drive Inspector 1.2 build 824
"Be wary if you have a Via KT400 chipset"
Pros: Is able to project when a hard disk drive is going to fail.
Cons: Apparently, it's incompatible with Via KT400 and Hyperion 4.55. It didn't like that at all. Gave me the error messages, "Your system has no hard disk drive" and "Failed to create empty document" even when I have more than enough hard disk drive space!!!
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