HD Tune

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.)...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

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Hard Disk Sentinel

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows Linux MS-DOS

41 Like

HDD Regenerator

HDD Regenerator is a unique program for regeneration of physically damaged hard disk drives. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them!.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated since 2011, but it supports Windows 10 and can be still bought from the official website.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

34 Like

HDDScan

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...

Free Windows

20 Like

MHDD

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access...

• Discontinued Last version 4.6 was released in 2005. See http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/mhdd_changelog.en.html

Free Windows

23 Like

SpinRite

SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces.

Commercial Windows Linux

29 Like

HDAT2

HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD and SCSI/USB devices. .

Free Windows

11 Like

SeaTools

SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer. The installation needs...

• Victoria tools are very good and don't hide small errors. SeaTools diagnosys is very basic: TEST ALWAYS PASS! Guest • May 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Windows

8 Like

DriveDx

DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

17 Like

WHDD

HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux.

Free Linux

Macrorit Disk Scanner

Macrorit Disk Scanner is a third party disk surface portable tool for scan disk bad sectors which provides you with better options and better performance than Windows...

Free Windows

5 Like

StableBit Scanner

StableBit Scanner is a state of the art disk health monitoring tool. - Monitors the SMART data of your disks, and presents them in an easy to read, meaningful way. -...

Commercial Windows

6 Like

DRevitalize

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...

Commercial Windows MS-DOS

2 Like

HDD Low Level Format Tool

This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes....

Free Windows

6 Like

SMART Utility

SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system...

Commercial Mac

3 Like