MHDD Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to MHDD for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is GSmartControl, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to MHDD and 18 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to MHDD are Hard Disk Sentinel, Victoria, HD Tune and HDD Regenerator.

MHDD alternatives are mainly Hard Disk Diagnostic Tools but may also be Benchmark Tools or Hard Disk Benchmark Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of MHDD.

MHDD

Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA,...

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GSmartControl
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Free • Open Source
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
33 GSmartControl alternatives
Smartctl GUI that supports controlling hard drive Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting.
- - GSmartControl is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MHDD.
- - GSmartControl is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MHDD.
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GSmartControl Features
Temperature Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
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pros, cons and recent comments
TristisOris
just inspection, no remap etc.
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Hard Disk Sentinel
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Paid • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
Linux
MS-DOS
27 Hard Disk Sentinel alternatives
Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.
- - Hard Disk Sentinel is the most popular commercial alternative to MHDD.
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Hard Disk Sentinel Features
Temperature Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
Data Protection
Victoria
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
23 Victoria alternatives
Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive.
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Victoria Features
1. PortableVictoria can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Recover Corrupted FilesVictoria can recover and repair corrupted files that won't open or that open with an error.
3. NTFS Partition RecoveryVictoria can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Bad sectors reallocation
Hardware Monitoring
Read latency benchmark per drive offset
Comments about Victoria as a Alternative to MHDD
Almost everyone thinks Victoria is a great MHDD alternative.
TristisOris
DOS version it's a best tool for now.
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HD Tune
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Freemium • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Benchmark Tool
Hard Disk Benchmark Tool
Windows
57 HD Tune alternatives
HD Tune is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and more!.
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HD Tune Features
Read latency benchmark per drive offset
Linear read benchmark per drive offset
Hardware Monitoring
Quick/slow surface scan
Temperature Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
HDD Regenerator
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
8 HDD Regenerator alternatives
The HDD Regenerator can repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data. As a result, previously unreadable and inaccessible information is restored.
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HDD Regenerator Features
1. PortableHDD Regenerator can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated since 2011, but it supports Windows 10 and can be still bought from the official website.
SpinRite
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Windows
Linux
6 SpinRite alternatives
SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces.
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SpinRite Features
1. PortableSpinRite can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
HDDScan
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
28 HDDScan alternatives
HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics (HDD, RAID, Flash). The program can scan storage device for bad blocks, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.
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HDDScan Features
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware Diagnostics
Temperature Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
Argus Monitor
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Paid • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
35 Argus Monitor alternatives
Monitoring temperatures and status of system components such as CPU, GPU and hard disk drive, fan speeds
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Argus Monitor Features
Fan Speed
Hardware Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Temperature Monitoring
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
HDAT2
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
20 HDAT2 alternatives
HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices.
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HDAT2 Features
Hardware Monitoring
DRevitalize
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Windows
MS-DOS
6 DRevitalize alternatives
DRevitalize is a program that repairs bad sectors (physical defects) on popular magnetic media (hard drives and also floppy drives to some extent) by generating a special sequence of high and low signals around the physically damaged area.
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HDD Low Level Format Tool
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
6 HDD Low Level Format Tool alternatives
HDD Low Level Format Tool is a utility for low-level hard disk drive formatting.
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HDD Low Level Format Tool Features
Low level
Diskovery
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
16 Diskovery alternatives
Diskovery collects and displays the details of data storage facilities of the computer, including its physical drives, disk arrays, partitions, volumes and mount points.
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Diskovery Features
1. PortableDiskovery can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
Discontinued
The last version released on 2021. 07. 21. based on the changelog: https://diskovery.io/changes