![]() ![]() Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. It is recommended to use smaller capacity USB drives (2 GB or smaller) for this purpose". Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. The official instructions state "USB drive preparation is usually done in 5-30 seconds" but then cryptically note "in some cases full format may be required which takes longer time. With both flash drives, I verified that in MS Windows I could right click on them in File Explorer and do a Quick Format which completed in maybe 3 seconds, so there appears to be nothing wrong with the flash drives. The first drive was ~32 GB in size and the Full Format looked like it would take > 1 hour, so I canceled that and used a smaller ~16 GB drive. The reason why is that with both USB flash drives that I tried, HDSDosUsb always did a Full Format of the flash drive. That process ultimately worked, but it took forever. I followed the official instructions ( sorry for not making a proper link, but I cannot use url) ![]() I need to run Hard Disk Sentinel on a USB flash drive in order to diagnose a problematic SSD on my main computer.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |