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System Information Software

Display Hard Drive Diagnostic Information Including Temperature

SUMMARY: Display hard drive S.M.A.R.T. information and the disk temperature with open-source application CrystalDiskInfo for Windows.

CrystalDiskInfo is an open-source application for Windows NT 4 and above that displays hard drive diagnostic data and the temperature, including hard disk S.M.A.R.T. info.

Information displayed includes the seek, read, and write error rates; spin-up time; spin retry count; and unrecordable sector count. Information can be copied to the clipboard for pasting into another application or e-mail message, such as to send information to tech support personnel.

Displaying disk diagnostic information including the temperature with CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo supports many interface languages including English, French, German, Japanese, and Russian.

The software can be downloaded at the following address. Note that a portable version is available as a .ZIP archive:

* CrystalDiskInfo: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html