Hard Disk Monitoring

I've followed the steps you advised and things are looking good (see attached image).

I really can't thank you enough for all the time you've spent looking into this - it's greatly appreciated.

If any further problems occur I'll let you know - in the meantime, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Thank you very much for such a detailed and informative response. I see what you're saying about other diagnostic tools; on the other hand, even HDS itself gives the drive a clean bill of health when I run specific tests (screenshots attached, along with one showing the reported condition of the dri...

I recently replaced a 1TB Seagate HDD with a 2TB hybrid drive (also Seagate), and it seemed to be a disaster. Hard Disk Sentinel immediately informed me that the drive has over a thousand bytes in bad sectors, has an overall health rating of 9% and is likely to die within two weeks. Yikes. However, ...