HDD Scan V3.3    Suggested by AlephX - Updated by Ruby on 27 Aug 2010 3MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3326) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (12) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 sur: Simple interface, ease to scan and check bad block on harddisk.
Work for me (Window XP Sp2). [2008-02-26 03:23]

 Gary: I only voted down because I downloaded 3 times and never yet received HDDScan.EXE, it seems to have been missed during the packaging. [2008-07-29 10:31]

 Steve: Same problem -- can't download and extract the file [2008-08-01 09:44]

 GunZen: Works fine on Vista x86 SP1 (executed as admin). No problems with downloading this fine program. Thanks. [2008-08-07 12:23]

 PJ: It works (for what little it does), but the interface is terrible ugly and hard to read- [2009-12-31 04:46]

 miha: Versin 3.0 includes virus! Download version 2.8 [2010-06-15 04:28]

 Snidely Whiplash: Download link gives me an "Illegal download attempt" message.
Author's website has only version 3.2 - download link on website is for HDDScan-3.2.zip [2010-07-26 14:38]

 lr: I also get the "Illegal download attempt" message [2010-07-26 18:08]

 Faust: It appears that v3.3 has been pulled from the site. [2010-07-27 02:35]

 Michael: > @Gary and Steve:
You getting .ZIP archive (not an .EXE), so you have to unpack it before using.

> @miha:
Where you have found v.3.0?
It's outdated and if you downloaded it from NON-oficial, it may contain *anything* including viruses.
Get v.3.3 from official site. [2010-08-23 03:32]

 Michael: Just realized that some posts here are pretty old and found what the problem with "Illegal download":

Go to the **OFFICIAL HDDScan website** and get the latest version there:

http://hddscan.com/

Link posted here is the link to Russian HDDScan website. [2010-08-23 03:36]

 Ruby: Download link updated to HDDScan Homepage. [2010-08-27 03:38]

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