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HD Tune v2.55

lwc on 7 Aug 2021
  • 595KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Feb 2008
  • Suggested by Tony Lau

HD Tune is a hard disk utility that includes drive info, benchmarking, and drive health. Information includes partitions, firmware version, serial number, etc. while benchmarking covers transfer rate, access time, burst rate, and more. Health parameters include the S.M.A.R.T details as well as temperature and a whole disk surface scan.

Functional with SSD and flash memory.

Note: this is the last freeware version. A "pro" version with additional features is available from the website.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Windows registry
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the files from {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch HDTune.exe
Latest comments
CD on 2007-03-09 07:36

Very nice little program. Swiss army knife of HD software.

I was worried that this program writes to the registry (HKLM\HDTune), but you can avoid this by NEVER changing the default options/configurations. You can look at the options, just DO NOT click OK. There are very few options anyways and the default options are fine.

The only registry entries left will be the regular entries for recently used documents, recent files, MRU, etc. But these cannot be avoided because they are Microsoft generated.

Dan Dascalescu on 2009-02-21 17:28

Neither HDTune 2.53, nor HDTune Pro 3.50 ever detected the SMART parameters of my internal laptop drive (a Hitachi HTS721060G9SA00). HDDScan and CrystalDiskInfo detected them fine.

bzl333 on 2013-07-29 00:39

Softpedia has a portable version:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/System-Enhancements/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-HD-Tune.shtml

not listed on the HDTune website afaik.

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HDD Health v4.2 Build 509

webfork on 18 Jan 2016
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

HDD Health monitors hard disks from the system tray using various S.M.A.R.T sensors (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology), alerting you of impending failure via email, pop-up messages, net messages or event logging.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch hddhealth.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Crystal Disk Info
What's new?
  •  New: HDD Health 4 with SSD Drives support.
Latest comments
appsuser on 2012-03-06 13:10

The website says this is compatible only up to XP, the README file says it's compatible up to Vista. When I tried it on my Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit computer, it didn't display any of my hard drives in the main window and only two hard drives under the partition tab. It's probably not 64-bit compatible. (v3.3 Beta)

I am Baas on 2012-03-06 16:21

Runs just fine on my Win 7 64-bit machine.

appsuser on 2012-03-06 22:46

Ah, had to Run As Administrator.

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Leelu Virtual Drives Manager v1.00

lwc on 30 Dec 2022
  • 596KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Nov 2009
  • Suggested by guinness

Leelu Virtual Drives Manager let you in a quick way, create a Symbolic link (aka MS-DOS Device name) to a folder and present it as drive. Drives that are created with will stay even after you restart your system and you can easily remove them by restarting Virtual Drives Manager.

This is useful for some applications that insist on being installed to a specific/root drive, to more easily and logically divide your directory structure for different users, or to create a quick access to a long path directly from My Computer.

Note: We are linking to the 1.0 version of this software but other versions of this software are considered adware.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch vdm.exe.

DriveGLEAM v1.12

lwc on 6 Aug 2021
  • 54KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Nov 2011
  • Suggested by Rykenden

DriveGLEAM indicates read/write activity for your hard drives in the system tray and also includes built in extensions for monitoring CPU and memory load. It also supports sending this information to the parallel port, so you can plug in your own electronics for visual display.

Support Windows 64-Bit versions.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the single EXE file to a folder of your choice. Note that there is a different version for Win2K, so you might want to download that as well if you plan on running it on Win2K. Launch drivegleam.exe.