Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. Again installed on the unusual and wrong location "Program Files (x86)32".

A company without name and address: "Founded in 2000, AltrixSoft is a rapidly growing privately owned software manufacturer. AltrixSoft specializes in developing system maintenance, system monitoring and utility applications for business and individuals. Now people and companies in more than 70 countries use our programs in their everyday work."

The latest news from July 2014 - this is the date for this software, too.

We had had a Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks 4.20 on December 3, 2013. Here are the old reviews: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/hard-drive-inspector-notebooks/
The so called "Pro" version was GOTD two weeks ago.

The argument for a special "Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks" is ridiculous. Read for yourself:
" For example, HDIP periodically reads S.M.A.R.T. data from a hard drive to control its health. Reading this data when the hard drive is in sleep mode activates the disk which in turn causes an unnecessary increase in power consumption and reduces battery life. In addition, the average working temperature of a notebook's hard drives is usually higher than the temperature of a desktop’s disks. So, when used in notebooks, HDIP may show false overheating alerts."

http://altrixsoft.com/en/hddinsp_notebooks/notebooks.php

THIS is the only difference to the previous so called "PRO" GOTD...

http://i.imgur.com/9ZGoyra.png

Uninstalled via reboot, no need of this simple S.M.A.R.T reader

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+78)

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Küstenwache,

Karl indicated directory was 'Program Files (x86)32' The 32 is wrong!! If you use a 64 bit version of windows, all 32 bit apps should be located in 'Program Files (x86)', 64 bit apps are located in 'Program Files'! Please read carefully before you are too quick to comment!! Most of the issues commented on here, are due to people not reading the readme.txt, description and or website info.

Küstenwache, Karl indicated directory was 'Program Files (x86)32' The 32 is wrong!! If you use a 64 bit version of windows, all 32 bit apps should be located in 'Program Files (x86)', 64 bit apps are located in 'Program Files'! Please read carefully before you are too quick to comment!! Most of the issues commented on here, are due to people not reading the readme.txt, description and or website info.
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ebax  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+60)

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"A company without name and address"
Really? Click on "Homepage" above and go to contacts (http://altrixsoft.com/en/contacts/):

Address: Ryabikova bul., 35-24, Irkutsk, 664043, Russia

The "unusual and wrong location" 'Programs x86' is the standard install location for 32bit programs in Vista/7/8 64bit, even you can't see it in a german version of the Windows Explorer but in Total Commander etc. you will.

<i>"A company without name and address"</i> Really? Click on "Homepage" above and go to contacts (http://altrixsoft.com/en/contacts/): Address: Ryabikova bul., 35-24, Irkutsk, 664043, Russia The "unusual and wrong location" 'Programs x86' is the standard install location for 32bit programs in Vista/7/8 64bit, even you can't see it in a german version of the Windows Explorer but in Total Commander etc. you will.
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Küstenwache  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+28)

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Interpreting diagnostic data often relies on experience, S.M.A.R.T information other than temperature is not something many of us have experience in analysing.
The link below will maybe help your decision whether or not to download software, frankly I am not going to bother as the only bit I really understand, temperature, can give false readings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Information_provided

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"Interpreting diagnostic data often relies on experience, S.M.A.R.T information other than temperature is not something many of us have experience in analysing."

There's also some variance between drive manufacturers regarding what some of the data reported actually means, making it even harder. Enter Backblaze, an on-line backup service maintaining "nearly 40,000 hard drives and over 100,000,000 GB of data stored for customers". As a community service they publish data that would be likely impossible to acquire elsewhere.

Here are the five S.M.A.R.T. metrics or numbers they say to pay attention to: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/

<i>"Interpreting diagnostic data often relies on experience, S.M.A.R.T information other than temperature is not something many of us have experience in analysing."</i> There's also some variance between drive manufacturers regarding what some of the data reported actually means, making it even harder. Enter Backblaze, an on-line backup service maintaining "nearly 40,000 hard drives and over 100,000,000 GB of data stored for customers". As a community service they publish data that would be likely impossible to acquire elsewhere. Here are the five S.M.A.R.T. metrics or numbers they say to pay attention to: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
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