Hard Disk Monitoring tool

Monitor the reliability status of your local hard drives to help prevent data loss due to hard drive failure. (Use this utility to perform maintenance tasks on hard drives in the system)

How to use Hard Disk Monitor?

1. From the Boot Disk shell, click Start > Programs > Hard Disk Monitor

1. For changing the settings of the utility, click Preferences in the Hard Disk Monitor workspace. From the Preferences dialog box do the following:
   1. In the Poll settings tab:
      1. To change the frequency for checking status of the device, make changes in the Check every fields.
      2. To change the frequency for checking the amount of free disk space, make changes in the Check Free Disk Space every fields.
      3. To show which disk to monitor, choose it from the Disk drop-down list.
      4. For starting Hard Disk Monitor select the Enable at Windows startup check box.
2. In the Environment tab:
   1. For changing how drive temperature is displayed, choose a different setting in the Show temperature in drop-down list.
   2. For changing the appearance of the workspace, choose a different setting in the Style drop-down list.
   3. The Hard Disk Monitor tray icon can show three states. To change the default color for each of these states, change them in the TrayIcon color drop-down lists.
3. From the Local System Disks list, click a device to select it. Information about the selected device appears in the right panel.
4. For displaying attributes about the device, click the Disk Info tab.
5. For displaying SMART attributes, click the SMART Info tab. Performance and health attributes appear in the panel.
6. How to scan the selected device to detect bad blocks? Click the Scan Disk tab and do the following:
   1. For changing the block size, choose a different size in the Check Block Size area.
   2. For specifying a start sector and a stop sector for the scan, type the sector numbers in the From sector and To sector fields.
   3. Click Start Scan. The progress bar indicates progress of the scan.
   4. To stop the scan at any time, click Stop Scan.
   5. After the scan is complete, the Scan Disk Complete message box appears with details of the scan.
   6. For viewing a list of events run in the session, click Event Log
   

   Hard Disk Monitor Application. Check SMART parameters of hard disks