Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. In many cases it is able to warn the user about forthcoming disk failure in advance, thus preventing information loss.
Developer: AltrixSoft
Free to try; $29.95 to buy | Windows 2000/XP
Your hard disk may crash NOW! DriveSitter forecasts up to 70% of all sudden HDD crashes and monitors the HDD temperature. DriveSitter runs unnoticeable in the background constantly diagnosing the HDDs and prevents data loss.
Developer: Oliver Marr
Free to try; $24.95 to buy | Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP