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“I just wanted to let you know that I think your product is fantastic. I originally installed it to monitor the temperature of my hard drives which was a concern of mine after I had a hard drive fail due to excessive heat. I've had your product installed for over a year now and didn't think much about it until the other day it started reporting that my main hard drive was experiencing health issues. I've been watching the log report the health of my main drive deteriorate rapidly over the past week and I'm going to replace it. Now I'm very glad I had HD Sentinel installed! I will tell everyone to use this product - great job!I am simply amazed about detecting my drive and your level of support.”- Bernard St. Philippe
“Having used / played around on Windows XP Pro with the one copy of HD Sentinel Pro which I registered a few days ago, I am very impressed by its capabilities (eg. USB hard disk monitoring) and stability by reference to other similar software which I have used in recent years.”- Ian de Sousa
“Thank you for this great software. I have been using it for a while now, and it recently detected my C: drive health starting to deteriorate. This has enabled me to clone it to a new hard drive well before it starts to fail. Hard Disk Sentinel is "must have" software for all 3 of my computers, and I'm recommending it to my son and grandkids. ”- Ralph Wiggins
“And, you are very welcome for my support. Actually, you earned it by going way beyond the competition. I can't remember all of the programs I reviewed, but I spent a good two to three days downloading, installing, comparing, uninstalling, etc., before finding and deciding upon yours.Needless to say, I was quite relieved when I did. If I remember correctly, yours was the ONLY one of the bunch that recognized all of my hardware accurately, not to mention that I thought it to be the most feature-rich. Further - and I don't mean to sound ungrateful - but with HDSentinel including some of the most comprehensive documentation I've ever seen, I don't know that I'll be taking you up on your offer to help me any time soon! Thanks again, and keep up the excellent work. ”- John Walker
“I just wanted to express my complete satisfaction about HD Sentinel. I installed it about 2 weeks ago and I am very pleased with the results. It has helped me make cooling modifications to my PC that I hope will extend the life of my HDs and PC components in general. I have recommended your software product to several of my friends and colleagues. Well done! ”- Paul Kruse
“After checking out evaluation versions of all the available disk diagnostics software I recently selected HDSENTINEL as having the best overall presentation of the SMART data and purchased a copy for use on one of my computers. ”- Roger Davis

Peter Hall If I understand correctly another license is needed to use the portable version? I owned a professional license already?

Jan 21 at 11:55pm

Jesus InsideMe I don't see a link to compare the 3 versions (Std vs. Pro vs. Pro family liccense), (I see Pro is $ 35 bucks), can u help me with this amtter please?, God bless you, bye.

Jan 22 at 12:11am

Janos Mathe @Peter: Yes, if you want to use both the "installed" and the "Portable" version of Hard Disk Sentinel Pro, you'd need to have two separate licenses (one for the installed and one for the portable).

Or you may have "Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Family License" which can be used on up to 5 computers or
4 computers (installed version) + 1 Portable version or
3 computers (installed version) + 2 Portable versions or
2 computers (installed version) + 3 Portable versions etc.
so you can decide how to use your license(s).

Of course these are all lifetime licenses with the option for free upgrades to new versions.

See more at the bottom of http://www.hdsentinel.com...sional.php

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 22 at 12:30am

Janos Mathe @Jesus:

Please check the "Store" page at www.hdsentinel.com (directly at: www.hdsentinel.com/store.php ). Also you can reach this comparison on the "Products" page ( "Visit the Hard Disk Sentinel store to compare the list of all features in different versions" )

This shows the differences between the Standard and Pro versions.
In general, the major differences are
- more advanced disk testing (for example the "Reinitiliase disk surface test" you mentioned, and "refresh data area" and one pass "write+read (verify)" testing)
- integrated scheduled and automatic backup features
- option to use the Portable version
but you can see the list for more, minor differences.

The Standard version can be installed and used on 1 computer.

The Professional version can be installed and used on 1 computer OR can be used on a pendrive with Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable version.

The current Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Family version can be installed and used on up to 5 computers or split the licenses to be installed on computers (installed version) / pendrives (Portable version).
See previous post for more details :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 22 at 12:33am

Chris Dennis Can this software monitor drives in a NAS device?

Jan 22 at 1:53am

Janos Mathe I'm afraid no, as no software can monitor drives in NAS.

The problem is that NAS devices do not provide any interface to Hard Disk Sentinel software to access hard disk basic information (eg. model ID, features) and status information (including temperature, health and so).

They may offer some limited monitoring data (usually "S.M.A.R.T. status is OK / FAIL") but this is far from a complete monitoring functionality.

Many times in the past years we contacted different NAS manufacturers about this issue and to extend the functionality of their devices to allow the detection of this information somehow.

Until now received absolutely no response, so it seems they're not really prefer this kind of improvement - which is sad for users of their products.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 22 at 2:00am

Gonzo I just wanted to say that I've been using HDS Pro for over a year and not only I'm very happy with it, but I strongly recommend it!!!
It's already saved me twice from loosing precious information, by warning me of the smallest malfunctioning in a drive.
And even though it's been over a year, I know I still have lots of stuff to learn about configuring the app... :D
Thanks HDS Hungary for an awesome app, for providing a Family Licenses, and for the lifetime updates/upgrades!!!

Jan 22 at 2:29am

M.Nazmi Özmilli I have beeing using HDS Pro for over one year and I agree with Ganzo.
This is one of my favorite software.And I must to say Janos Mathe is very reponse man:Fourth time I sent my failure reports and every time I got quickly answer from him.
I Highly recommend it.

Jan 22 at 3:37am

Stephen Kreyling I have the pro single version and it helped me to get some sectors fixed. The software does not fix your drives, but it does tell you that problems exists and the life of the drive. I then used HDD generator to get the drive back to 100%. This tool saved me months of work to have to restore the computer. Acronis will not backup a drive to a image with sector errors, and this software helps me to keep a eye on my system.

Is there any pro to family pro upgrade or do we have to buy another license to upgrade to the family pro?

Jan 22 at 4:09am

Janos Mathe @Gonzo, @M.Nazmi: thanks so much for your kind words!

@Stephen: of course if there is a defective hard disk head, scratched surface area, no software can repair them as that would need to be replaced :-)
However, I can make sure Hard Disk Sentinel can force the drive to work better: to force the re-allocation of sectors and replace them with spare sectors. The result will be a "fresh" drive, which can be used better as there is no risk that a problematic sector will be used again. Please check the Help - Hard disk tests section for more information.

Yes of course, it is possible to upgrade any time by the difference between the two retail prices (Pro 1 PC license - Pro Family license). Just send an e-mail to info@hdsentinel.com with your current registration code and that you prefer to update and you'll receive the details.
However, because of the current promotion, the upgrade cost may be approximately same as ordering a new Hard Disk Sentinel Pro Family license with this 52% discount offered by BitsDuJour :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 22 at 5:00am

Lito I concur Gonzo And Nazmi. I have been using this program for a while now and it is installed on my main machine and my WHS and WHS2011 boxes and it works great. Support is very fast responding and it already has warned me about a couple of drives I thought were good that I have since replaced.

The ease of how the data is presented to so you can decide the best course of action makes it easily worth the price. I saw one old drive at 50% health so I started looking for HD to replace it with and HDs went on sale got a bigger replacement, by the time I was copying the data the old HD went down to 40% health. I secure wiped the drive and just use it as a test/temp drive and can throw it away if it really just dies knowing there is no sensitive info on it.

You can adjust all the warnings to your own tolerances it is highly configurable. You have an sidebar gadget too if you want that can show you the temps and health of all the drives or only the drives you specify. It'll even email you if you want (great for server boxes).

One feature I use on my WHS boxes a lot are the surface tests. When I put in a new drive, the first thing I do is a surface test R/W test to ensure the drive is good. It gives me a bit of piece of mind that the drive is probably good and won't fail a short time after I add it into my drive pool.

I HIGHLY recommend this software.

Jan 22 at 7:43am

Doremi Faso How do I buy the portable version? Where do I download it? - Thanks.

Jan 22 at 11:15am

Janos Mathe The Portable version is (in terms of licensing) Hard Disk Sentinel Professional version. So if you have license for Hard Disk Sentinel Professional, you can use the installed or the Portable version.
As described some posts earlier, if you order Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Family License, you can
- install Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on 5 computers or
- install Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on 4 computers and use 1 pendrive with Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable or
- install Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on 3 computers and use 2 pendrives with Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable
and so.

The Portable version can be downloaded from the "Download" page at www.hdsentinel.com or directly from http://www.harddisksentin...rtable.zip
(this is a ZIP file which need to be extracted to a pendrive you prefer to use).

Please check http://www.hdsentinel.com...sional.php for more information about both the installed and Portable versions.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 22 at 11:20am

Faisal Humayun This is an amazing program which has does a bang up job predicting imminent failures on my aging drives. I completely concur with all the positive reviews. Don't pass this one up if you don't already have it.

Jan 22 at 11:24am

Tortuga Hello Janos :)
A (little) bit confused w the license... abt the new portable version

Users that have the Pro Family License can use it, right?
As long as it's installed on a combined maximum of 5 computers, as per the initial terms
I already bought a Pro Family License last time, on BdJ, so I'm covered? Just wanted to confirm!
Peace

Jan 22 at 11:33pm

Peter C1 DO YOURSELVES A FAVOUR - GiVE H.D.S. A TRiAL & YOU'LL NEVER REGRET IT!

I have tried other freeware alternatives and products from Ash*mpoo etc and H.D.S. Pro is the best there is - i.M.H.O.

In the last 2 Years I have bought 3 x H.D.S. Pro Family Licenses = 2 for my family and another relative and 1 for a close friend and their family.

Of course there can always be improvements and the some things have changed because of Microsoft but H.D.S. is a GREAT PROGRAM worth every cent at the full price and is a BARGAiN at the discounted PRiCE!.

Jan 22 at 11:58pm

Jesus InsideMe Same problem I had in your previous offer, this was the same msg:
''Thank you for your order! Thank you for your order. We are happy to welcome you as our customer. Please see below for information on your order. We have received your order. Please note your reference number, which is used to identify your order: REF# 434758425.
Payment Information:
Unfortunately, the PayPal transaction for your order 434758425 has been delayed. We will inform you as soon as we have received your payment.'', I hope to get your support in this chance. =:(
God bless you, bye.

Jan 23 at 12:05am

Janos Mathe @Tortuga: Sorry for the confusion!
Yes of course, I can confirm that with your license you can use the Portable version as well.

As discussed some posts earlier, the Portable version is (in terms of licensing) Hard Disk Sentinel Professional version.

So if you have a license for Professional version, you can decide if you want to use it with the installed OR the Portable version.

If you have Pro Family version (which is a license to be used on 5 computers with the installed version), you can use any of these 5 with the Portable version.

It means that users who already have licenses for Pro version, have
- full lifetime license
- lifetime free upgrades
- an option to change to the Portable version

Of course if you have further systems to diagnose with the installed or portable version, you may select to get a new package now :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 12:07am

Janos Mathe @Peter: Thanks so much for your kind words and your support of development!

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 12:08am

Nico Westerdale Great News! H.D.S. Hungary has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Jan 23 at 12:11am

Janos Mathe @Jesus InsideMe: :-O
Sorry for the delay caused by Share-it. I contacted them last time about the possible causes and asked to improve the situation to prevent such delays / troubles.
I contact them again specifically for your order and hope the transaction will be completed soon.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 12:11am

Don Rivella What about Windows 8 compatibility?

Jan 23 at 12:43am

Janos Mathe @Don: The latest version of Hard Disk Sentinel 4.20 is compatible with Windows 8.

Previous versions (4.10 and before) also worked on almost all Windows 8 systems, but with some hard disk controllers / USB drives there could be incompatibility issue because of a major change in Windows 8 by Microsoft.

Hard Disk Sentinel 4.20 works correctly with Windows 8 - both with 32 and 64 bit versions.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 12:48am

Wild Wizard This Is An AWESOME Program ! Mr Mathe WILL Respond To Your Questions Quickly And In Great Detail, I Will ALWAYS Keep This Program On ALL My Machines, A VERY Valuable Tool For Your HDD's And SSD's.

And Yes It Works On Windows 8 64 Bit Pro, I Was Using It When Takling To A DELL Rep ( He Was Using Remote Assistance, He Could See My Screen , (( No I Do Not Like The Remote Sessions But Needed To Do It )) )

HDS Pro Identified On The SSD ( Boot Drive 256GB) That In Fact
It Contained 3 Different Logical Drives As Follows Logical Drive C: ( O/S) Logical Drive W: ( WINRETOOLS) And Logical Drive X: ( PBR Image) ....Even In DOS It Did Show The "Partitions" Of Physical Drive C: However NOT The Logical Drive Letters, Etc Etc......

Its A MUST Have Tool For Anyone That Maintains A Machine(s) With Multiple HDD's/SSD's Making Sure That The Drives Are "Healthy"
It Gives You S.M.A.R.T. Info, Temperature Info, Info Etc Etc....

And NO I Am In No Way Affiliated With Mr Janos Mathe The Developer Of The Program.

Blessings To All,
~~Wild Wizard~~

Jan 23 at 1:36am

Tortuga Hi again Janos :)
Thank you so much for your prompt response!
Humm ... your answer raised another question, sorry abt that! ;)
Do you mean to say that a licensed portable vs (that we installed on one of our external HDDs) is tied to a specific box, PC/Notebook/Laptop?!?
It's confusing bc you say:
«« if you have further systems to diagnose with the installed or portable version, you may select to get a new package now »»
It being on an external HDD, can I not use it on ANY system I chose? Either within my LAN or at a friend's or whatever?
Otherwise, if it's tied, what's the point of it being portable?!
In all, we have 5 PCs/Laptops, so my 5 licenses covers it, it's just that I'm wondering ...
Peace

Jan 23 at 2:27am

Janos Mathe @Wild Wizard: Thanks so much for your words, I'm glad to hear Hard Disk Sentinel can do great job on your systems !

@Tortuga: Sorry for the confusion!

The licensed Portable version is tied to the pendrive where the Portable version downloaded (from http://www.harddisksentin...rtable.zip ) and extracted.
That pendrive with Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable can be used on any computer in your home, your friends, family or anywhere else.

The _installed_ version is tied to the computer where it was installed, the _Portable_ version can be used anywhere without problems as it uses the pendrive only (save licensing information, settings, statistics to the pendrive, not on the actual system).

Hope this helps :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 2:44am

Tortuga Hey Janos
Thank you again for your prompt response!
Yes, it does help! Thank you for confirming, I thought as much, got mixed up w that sentence ...
GREAT product and indeed a nice GREAT developer!!
Take advantage of this offer people, you wont regret it!!!
Peace :)

Jan 23 at 3:43am

Janos Mathe Me thanks too - and excuse me if previusly it was confusing what I wrote :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 23 at 3:47am

ibrahim awad thanks.

i got it

Jan 23 at 7:21am

Tortuga @ Janos :)
It's all good !! !!
And a mahhvelous New Year, to you & family!!
Ciao

Jan 23 at 9:46am

J S ERROR window: INVALID FLOATING POINT

Hi Janos, I have installed the program (v4.1) and get a message windows in the middle of the desktop - after booting up the PC, which I think says Hard Disk Sentinel "invalid floating point" or invalid floating point operation". [I don't have my PC with me at present to check if the word operation is included or not - sorry]

It seems that the program works properly (no floating point error message) every fourth boot up, meaning I have to reboot the PC 3 times before the computer & HDS Pro seems to work happily with each other.

I have uninstalled, done a registry clean up using glary utilities and re-installed but still get the same problem.

Question: Have You any idea what it might be or can you be of any assistance?

Jan 23 at 10:30pm

Stefan Hauber Thank you.
I see: Free upDATes, but no free upGRADes

Jan 23 at 11:36pm

Janos Mathe @J S: This sounds really interesting.
Can you please use Report - Send test report to developer option with the current version?
That would help to investigate the actual situation, operating system version and possible cause.

What happens if you try to download and install (possible as you wrote, a clean install) of the latest version 4.20 ?

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 24 at 12:05am

Louis H @Stefan.....

From "The Fine Print" section...

Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for the lifetime of the product.

From the Vendor... posted above.....

"It means that users who already have licenses for Pro version, have
- full lifetime license
- lifetime free upgrades
- an option to change to the Portable version"

Jan 24 at 12:09am

Janos Mathe @Stefan: Excuse me for the confusion - I can confirm you have FREE Updates for all future versions (4.20, 4.30, 4.50, 5.00, 6.00, etc...)
So you will have full, lifetime license for the version you selected: both the current version can be used for unlimited time and you can get new versions for free.
There are no further subscription / annual renewal / update costs.

The "Upgrade" means changing the current version to a different version (for example Upgrade from Hard Disk Sentinel standard to Hard Disk Sentinel Professional OR Upgrade HDS Pro to HDS Pro Family to protect more systems). This upgrade is also possible - but it is not free.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 24 at 12:09am

Nico Westerdale Great News! H.D.S. Hungary has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Jan 24 at 12:11am

Fehmi Yucer Hi Janos,

I received the following message when I completed the PayPal transaction:

"Unfortunately, the PayPal transaction for your order 434873865 has been delayed. We will inform you as soon as we have received your payment."

Should I try to order again? While I like your software, I have no need for 2 family licenses :p

Jan 24 at 10:41am

Janos Mathe Hi Fehmi,

Sorry for the issue caused by Share-it!
Contacted them previously about the situation and I hope they will improve their processing method. To be honest, I do not know what could cause delay in a Paypal transaction - as there are no banks or other things which could slow down processing the transfer ....

I'm sure the payment will be processed soon, so please do not place a new order to prevent duplicate orders.
I can make sure even if they cause delay, your license will be arrived, so you can't miss the current offer.

If it will not be processed in the next some hours, please send an e-mail and I'll manage to send a temporary license code until the transaction will be completed at Share-it.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 24 at 10:55am

Bennet Immanuel Hi Janos,
I am currently running trail version of your software. So far it is good. Please clarify the following questions.
1. I noticed an option of "Load with windows". Do I need to check it? Is there any significance of running HDS all the time in background? Will it affect system performance. I usually wont run any programs in the background, except for security related softwares.
2. I noticed a green tick on every drives after installing HDS. Is there a way to disable it. Kindly clarify.

Jan 24 at 11:44am

Janos Mathe Hi Bennet,

Thanks for your message and questions, here I'm sending the answers:

1) of course you can disable to "load with Windows" option and run Hard Disk Sentinel manually when required.

However, exactly as you wrote, it may be a good idea to have "security related softwares". Hard Disk Sentinel falls in this category as it can issue alarm, notification, perform automatic backup functions, measure average temperature and disk activity, and in general, report any kind of problems which may otherwise remain un-noticeable (for example high temperature during a high load of a hard disk, a new problem detected during data transfer and so).

In general, Hard Disk Sentinel does not use high resources, it works correctly even on older systems without affecting system performance.

2) that green tick shows the current status of the drives, used as a generic indicator of the health of the corresponding drive - to quickly indicate problem (with yellow ! symbol or red X upon issues) even if Hard Disk Sentinel runs in the background only.

Of course it can be disabled at Configuration - Disk Control - Modify default hard disk icons in Windows Explorer.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 24 at 12:04pm

Wayne W If I'm paying with Paypal why am I required to give my name, address, etc. That's the whole point of using Paypal. So aggravating when vendors do that. I backed out of the payment and am trying to decide whether to hold my nose and buy anyway. I just don't understand why vendors do this.

Jan 24 at 7:22pm

Janos Mathe Hi Wayne,

Thanks for your message and excuse me for the troubles.
Personally I completely understand and agree as Share-it may not require to enter all details for Paypal transaction.

If you prefer, please send an e-mail to info@hdsentinel.com and I'm sure we can find an alternate method to get the license easier.

Excuse me (again) for the trouble caused by Share-it ....

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 24 at 10:18pm

Fehmi Yucer Hi Janos,

A couple hours later I received an automated reply from share-it! saying that the payment failed and I should choose another payment method. I am using PayPal and I did not receive an error from PayPal - that is why I really don't understand what the problem is. PayPal is a way to make secure payments and share-it! wants to make it more secure with additional security checks??

Anyways, I clicked on the link to change the payment, went to the PayPal page again and this time I chose another card linked to my account. Guess what - another message from share-it! stating that my order is delayed!

I don't know what their 'additional security checks' are but the reply I got from them asked me to call them if the transaction failed again. What is it that they want to tell me over an an international phone call?

Jan 25 at 3:00am

Bennet Immanuel @Jones,
Thanks a lot for answering my questions:)

Jan 25 at 3:00am

Janos Mathe @Fehmi,

Thanks so much for your message !
I'm extremely sad and sorry about what Share-it did :-(

I contacted them again immediately after your previous message but not received answer yet.
I'm trying my best to resolve the situation with them and suggest (again) to improve their system to prevent such troubles.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 25 at 3:58am

Janos Mathe @Bennet: Me thanks to, I'm glad if I could help :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 25 at 3:58am

Janos Mathe Many thanks for everybody participating in the past days!

Thanks so much for your kind words, messages and questions received here and in e-mail - which all help further development of Hard Disk Sentinel software.

Also (of course) thanks for BitsDuJour team to organize the promotion! :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jan 25 at 4:00am

Fehmi Yucer @Janos,

Thank you once again for your support! You have been extremely prompt and helpful - I am very pleased to be one of your customers : )

Jan 25 at 6:13am

Phil North I tried to buy a Family License with 50% discount and all went well until I was being directed to PayPal, the page just would not load.
Tried on another computer with same result.
Did want that Family license, why could I not proceed?

May 9 at 4:58am

Janos Mathe @Phil: Excuse me for the troubles - maybe caused by a temporary network problem. I sent an e-mail, trying to find the best solution.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - May 9 at 5:20am

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