Hard Disk Monitoring

I have a Samsung 970 EVO 2 TB SSD that was the main boot drive of my workstation laptop. Several days ago that laptop would boot Windows, but no login password textfield would display, so it was impossible to get in. I attempted to run Windows restore, that failed, and now the drive is totally unabl...

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Background: I have a Windows laptop with a corrupted disk and/or file system that I need to diagnose. I created a bootable USB flash drive running the latest Linux Mint Cinnamon (20.2) that I want to put disk diagnostic tools on. The first tool that I want to use is the Linux version of Hard Disk Se...

I need to run Hard Disk Sentinel on a USB flash drive in order to diagnose a problematic SSD on my main computer. I followed the official instructions (https://www.hdsentinel.com/usbboot.php/ sorry for not making a proper link, but I cannot use url) That process ultimately worked, but it took foreve...