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HDDlife – Hard Drive Monitoring Tool (IDE, Serial ATA and SCSI disks)

trayNo more worry of hard drive failure with HDDlife. HDDlife is a free real-time hard drive monitoring utility with malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. HDDlife provides you hard drives conditions at a glance. HDDlife show warning when storing data on your hard drive becomes dangerous giving you the time to prevent your data from being lost. HDDlife monitoring the health of your hard drives using the S. M. A. R. T. technology. S. M. A. R. T. technology accurately predict hard-drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction

AnywhereViewHDDLife loads on Windows start. it will show you the list of your disks with the percentage of their health left, and show you their temperature as well. HDDlife can work in the background mode checking and controlling the health of your hard drives.

There are 2 versions of HDDlife: Standard Version and Professional Version. Standard is limited to the first four features. Professional will have all the features listed below.

HDDlife features:

  • Hard drive health monitoring
  • JustNowâ„¢ – show health status immediately after first run
  • Multilingual interface
  • Automatic program update via Internet
  • Detailed information on health and performance percentage
  • Show hard drives temperature
  • Show hard drive health in the system tray
  • Simultanously show temperature and hard drive health
  • AnywhereViewâ„¢ technology
  • Show warnings if hard drive health low
  • Send warning via network message
  • Send warning via e-mail message

HDDlife works under Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 and supports IDE, Serial ATA and SCSI disks with standard controllers (external IDE RAID and SCSI RAID controllers are not supported).

Download Free Standard version HDDlife
Download 15 days Trial Professional version HDDlifePro
Download Free HDDlife plug-in for Google Desktop

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It is a great program that help me determine how the disk has been working so far, whether it has ever been overheated before and whether it will have failures in the future. It would get even better if it can diagnostic removeable storage devices, such as Compactflash cards, SD (Secure Digital) cards, USB-thumbdrives, removable hard drives. Just hope this feature will be included in the next release.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2006

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  • Bob

    Hi. I have two 40GB Maxtor 34098H4 hard drives, one of which died completely three months ago. The BIOs will not recognize it and it will not spin when my computer is powered up. The dead drive does not make any noise. After doing some research, I found two seemingly possible methods of getting a dead drive to spin which each have supporters and detractors. The two methods are possible alternatives (To those who cannot afford it) to paying thousands of dollars to a professional firm with a sealed clean room to recover data. The first method involves finding the same model hard drive as the dead one with the exact PCB (Printed Circuit Board) and then swapping the PCB from the good drive into the dead one to make it spin. The second method involves putting the dead drive into a Ziplock storage bag and putting it into the freezer overnight and then taking the drive out and pray that the hard drive will spin. I wanted to try the first method but after examining my good hard drive, which is of the same size and model as the dead one, I found that the PCBs are slightly different. So, the first method will not work for me (I don’t have the time and resources to try to find an exact PCB for the dead drive). I was wondering, would the second method work? Many people have claimed that the second method works and others have claimed that it would end up damaging the drive heads or platters even further. In your experience, have you tried the second method and what is the success rate for making the hard drive spin again so that data can be recovered? I just want to recover some old pictures and music from my dead drive. Any assistance you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thanks! ;-)

  • Roger

    I’ve tried the both methods many times, and I’ve never had either of them work.  I work in a computer repair shop, so I have over 200 hard drives to choose from, so finding the same PBC usually isn’t a problem.  Still, for drives that don’t spin up, its best left to the professionals with a clean room.