Disk Scanner is a free tiny utility to check the hard drive for read errors. Disk read errors may be the first typical sign of the possible disk failure. Ariolic Disk Scanner makes a raw sector read check of the hard drive and shows the result as a picture of your disk, where the good and bad clusters marked, so you can see the status of your disk at a glance.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-02-22
• Size: 417 Kb
• Cost: Free

DiskMonitor automatically enumerates available networks and allows you to select disks to monitor and shares to iterate (admin access required). Critical, warning, S.M.A.R.T., and off-line alerts can be configured. Supports customizable HTML and text email alerts. Users can create disk utilization, directory security, user rights, and directory utilization reports.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-17
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 99.95 $

Drive Health is a Windows program that helps you to estimate your hard disks Life Resource. This tool allows you to predict possible HDD failure and prevent losing the critical data. To estimate hard disk life our program uses special S.M.A.R.T. technology that is supported by the most of hard disk manufacturers.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-19
• Size: 465 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, temperature, health and performance for all hard disks. It uses a new concept to evaluate hard disk information to predict disk failures (more: http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart ). It can start different hardware tests of hard disks to diagnose and fix problems. DOS version can detect information about IDE/SATA hard disks on motherboard or external RAID cards.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Chinese (traditional), Portuguese-Brazil, Czech
• Release: 2007-10-01
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 23.00 $

Learn about HDD failure BEFORE it happens and save your valuable data. SIGuardian uses S.M.A.R.T technology built in every modern hard-drive to accurately predict the date when using a particular hard-drive is no longer safe. All HDD attribute values - safe and non-safe - are displayed real-time. This tool is also capable of monitoring HDD temperature and alerting you over the network or via e-mail when failure possibility is diagnosed.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian
• Release: 2005-01-11
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 39.90 $

SIGuardian Lite is the tool what allows you to control health of your hard drives and prevent data loss of failures. Using technology included in all modern drives SIGuardian Lite estimate end date of hard drive lifetime, so you can make backup copy of all data. SIGuardian Lite combine power of modern technologies with easy-to-use interface and intended for beginners and home users. Protect your hard drive for cost only $15!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-12-22
• Size: 892 Kb
• Cost: 14.95 $

Worried about a hard drive failure? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. Zero failures, 100% FREE to download and try.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-11-10
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: Free

Worried about a hard drive failure? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. Zero failures, 100% FREE to download and try.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-11-10
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 29.00 $

The simplest and most reliable method to protect data on a hard drive is to monitor its health. Even within a standard operating system, you will be able to protect your notebook hard drive if you add the HDDlife drive health monitor to standard utilities. It constantly monitors the drive state and shows you the health percentage. HDDlife gives recommendations and takes measures to ensure the health of your drive.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-05-11
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

DiskCheckup measures the performance and 'health' of your S.M.A.R.T. enabled hard disk drive. It compares current hard disk attributes to values determined by the manufacturer of the HDD. It can track changes to the attributes over time and make a extrapolated 'prediction' as to the failure date of the HDD. It can be command line driven and can be configured to send alerts by email. Free for personal use, $US 15.00 for commercial use.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-24
• Size: 368 Kb
• Cost: 15.00 $

Did you know that hard drives are quite sensitive to heat? A rise in temperature by 10 degrees may halve your drive's life expectancy. HDDLife is a free indicator that installs into your Google Sidebar. It will monitor your hard drive condition and temperatures. The program allows you to diagnose problems with a quick glance at the Google Sidebar. Protect your drives from crashing!

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-02-15
• Size: 385 Kb
• Cost: Free

DriveSMART is an essential tool to report the health of your hard disk drive and can be used in tandem with CompuApps DriveWizard to save the contents of your hard disk drive before it crashes! DriveSMART utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is to detect and anticipate any problems that are about to occur on your hard disk, in a timely manner allowing you to save your precious data.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-07
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: Free

Cutting-edge solution to deploy new hard drive, migrate data and applications online, create quick disk-to-disk backup copy and boot from backup hard disk if your hard drive fails. Ability to copy your drive without Drive Copy installation (Drive Copy CD). Intuitive wizard-driven interface in Windows XP style. Basic hard disk partitioning operations. Windows NT/2000/2003 Server support.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-12-22
• Size: 12 Mb
• Cost: 129.00 $

Drive Copy Personal is an easy to use and reliable solution designed to prevent you from tiresome and time consuming OS and applications installation and adjustment upgrading to a new hard drive or recovering after hard disk fail. You can: - Copy entire hard drive or separate partition to your new drive - Create quick disk-to-disk backup copy and boot from backup hard disk if your hard drive fails - Schedule disk-to-disk copy operations

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-05-31
• Size: 15 Mb
• Cost: 24.00 $

Find where your hard disk space is being used. Find out what old programs, games, demos, or downloads are still there filling up your hard disk space. You can see at a glance where your space has gone.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-13
• Size: 685 Kb
• Cost: 9.99 $

WatchDISK provides the information you need to: Find out why free disk space has suddenly dropped, Project future storage needs, Justify additional storage capacity investments to management. Directory sizes are stored in a database for comparison over time, graphical reports generated in Excel, etc. Automated scans and low disk space warnings are also available.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-08-25
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

WIndows Disk Housekeeping and Cleaning Utilities. These 2 applications enable you to answer the question: "where has all my disk space gone?", and once answered, the disk space can be quickly and easily reclaimed. DiskUsage & DiskClean are distributed together as one utility package.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-07-14
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 26.55 $

ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.3 visually reports on bad sectors in system area of floppy disk. You can check if Boot Sector, FAT 1, FAT 2, and ROOT FOLDER sectors are good or bad. You find how much of remaining file system is still there to help recover files when you use RFD. While RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk (RFD) brings simplicity into data recovery, ANALYZER for RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk V0.3 gives a head start to using RFD.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-03-08
• Size: 18 Kb
• Cost: Free

Kakra Private Disk is a small, efficient and reliable program that allows you to create,edit and remove encrypted virtual disks.It also be used in conjunction with a broad range of portable media, for instance: USB flash drives, external hard disks, mp3 players or iPods.Kakra Private Disk protects user sensitive data from all kinds of e-dangers such as unauthorized access, computer viruses, information theft or computer hijacking.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-03-05
• Size: 886 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Have you ever dreamed about full control over all your files and disks? Disk Watchman (DW) is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP application that monitors your hard, removable and mapped network drive resources. It displays free and used disk space on real-time basis. You will be notified by E-mail/ICQ/SMS when your free disk space falls short certain values. DW contains rapid tools to find disk space reserves (backup, temporary and duplicated files).

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian
• Release: 2005-03-17
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 27.00 $