As most of us do not bother to backup or data, at the very least we should monitor the status of our drives. They have a limited life-span and, if used regularly, could be close to the end of their working life. If you get to the point where your drive simply stops working, you'd lose everything. Short of sending your drive to a professional system salvage unit, there's no way you can retrieve your files.

Active Hard Disk Monitor 1.2 is a simple free tool that enables you to monitor and keep and eye on the status of your drives, whether they are internal or external. If you find that they are close to the end of their lifespan, then you can upgrade and migrate your data from the old to the new drive. There's also a Professional available that will enable to check and monitor remote drives - ideal for monitoring the status of a server.

Active Hard Disk Monitor link.

28 Aug 2008