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CrystalDiskInfo – Read the S.M.A.R.T Data of a Hard Drive
CrystalDiskInfo is a small, freeware and portable tool designed to read the S.M.A.R.T data of a Hard Drive and come to an overall conclusion of the hard drives health. It will also display the S.M.A.R.T data as a list so you can see the specific issue that a hard drive may have.
This application has a wealth of other features such as showing the temperature of the hard drive, easily make it start up when the system starts, graph the health of a hard drive over time and more.
This application works with Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8
Note: This application starts up in the Japanese language. To change it to English, goto the rightmost toolbar option where it says (Language), then choose A-N, then English.
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OMFG finally i get a program that i can S.M.A.R.T. over my external HD =3
I feel a little guilty about this but I’ll feel better when I get it off my chest.
I hate using software which isn’t in English.
Don’t feel guilty about using this “software which isn’t in English”, as I saw in the portable version a drop-down to select whatever language you want [top right]
Yetti to me diagnotistics is part of repair process and any tool in the process is a repair tool. You can’t fix the problem if you don’t know what it is.
Great little tool thanks!!!
For all of you that don’t want to mess with all of the other languages do the following.
Go into the folder where CrystalDiskInfo is saved. Open the “CdiResource” folder, Open the “language folder”, and then remove all of the files except “English.lang”. No matter what language Crystal Disk Info was set to previously when it opens it will only be able to find the English language file so will automatically revert to English.
I hope that helps!
my only gripe is that its hosted @ SourceForge
and is a pain in the ass to keep updated with Ketarin because of SF’s page design
another good alternative to this tool is DiskSmartView from nirsoft, its layout is a little different but pretty much the same info
http://nirsoft.net/panel/disksmartview.exe
although once you can figure out the regex stuff in ketarin you can auto force the app to start in english after ketarin extracts the zip with these extra commands
7z x {file} -o”{root}Computer-Repair\Information\CrystalDiskInfo\” -y
echo [Setting] >”{root}Computer-Repair\Information\CrystalDiskInfo\DiskInfo.ini”
echo Language=English>>”{root}Computer-Repair\Information\CrystalDiskInfo\DiskInfo.ini”
Wow thanks , I personaly use hard disk sentinel pro. It’s very complete but $$$
Open program
Far top right is languages
Drop down A-N to english
Click….readable now in English
I have seen many “smart” drives fail or begin to fail that still appear to be fine according to their “smart” log. Perhaps it is the implementation of the technology or something else but I have not found “smart” to be very accurate or smart.
I’ll second nirsoft’s disk smart viewer. Either way, though, make sure you do more than just look at the SMART readout on a hd if you suspect it’s going bad. UBCD has a good collection of official disk diagnostic tools from the manufacturers.
Awesome tool! Now we can actually make use of S.M.A.R.T data.
I´m puzzled. Nirsfoft´s tool doesn´t detect my external lacie hard drive and when I runned this utility it gave me a delayed writting error in my external hard drive, wich is the same that happened before with another SMART utility.
Is this becouse my external hard drive may not support SMART?
This is great. Just had a PC come in and I remembered this post so I though i’d give it a try. Does what it says on the tin.