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Drive Adviser for Windows

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Drive Adviser monitors your computer's hard drives for impending failure. It bypasses manufacturer blocks to provide a health percentage and sends timely on-screen and email alerts.

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  • Pros

    • Provides proactive notifications for potential hard drive failures.
    • Bypasses BIOS restrictions to report drive health.
    • Monitors SSD, rotating, and external drives.
    • Offers on-screen and email notification options.
    • Compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.

  • Cons

    • Does not support some tablets with on-board eMMC storage.
    • Health percentage is the primary technical metric.
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
0.8.8.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
309
Downloads Last Week
7
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Developer’s Description

By Schrock Innovations
Receive notifications about hard drive issues.
Drive Adviser notifies you if one of the hard drives attached to your computer is having trouble that can lead to a failure.

All of the major computer manufacturers now disable SMART notifications even removing the option to reactivate them from the BIOS.

Drive Adviser bypasses those blocks to compile a health percentage for your drive. 100% health is perfect and anything less is a failure state.

Drive Adviser will notify you on-screen as well as via email telling your the name of the computer with a failing drive as well as the drive letter that is having issues. If you continue using a hard drive in a failure state Drive Adviser will notify you if the drive's heath deteriorates further.

Drive Adviser is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows and can monitor the health of SSD drives, rotating drives, and external drives. (Note: Some tablets that use on-board eMMC chips for storage are not compatible with Drive Adviser even though they run Windows because there is no SMART status for that storage option.)

Drive Advisor has no partnered software, can be freely redistributed, and its use is permitted by commercial entities. If the user chooses to provide a valid email for drive health notifications, that email address will only be used for that purpose and will not be shared or used by anyone else for any other purpose.

Drive Adviser is designed to make the technical aspects of hard drive heath understandable to every-day computer users.

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