Hard Drive Inspector Professional revision history Version history Legend + New feature o Minor change !!

Bug fix Version 3.98, build #438 April 23, 2012 + added the support the Toshiba Stor.E Steel series external drives + added the support the Seagate Expansion external drives Version 3.97, build #434 March 6, 2012 + added the support the Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex Desk USB 3.0 external drives + added the support the Samsung S2 Portable external drives Version 3.96, build #430 February 01, 2012 + added the support the Toshiba Canvio 500GB external drives Version 3.95, build #428 January 12, 2012 + added the support the WD My Book Essential USB 3.0 3TB external drives Version 3.94, build #425 November 18, 2011 + added the support the Samsung G2 Portable USB external drives + added the support the Verbatim Portable Hard Drive 500Gb eSATA & USB 2.0 Com bo external drives Version 3.93, build #421 October 21, 2011 + added the support the Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex USB external drives + added the support the Samsung Story Station 3.0 USB external drives Version 3.92, build #417 August 04, 2011 + added the support the Enclosure from Kingston SSDNow notebook upgrade kit + added the support the LaCie rikiki USB 3.0 external drives Version 3.91, + added the + added the + added the build #411 support of support of support of June 06, 2011 Intel SSD drives iRiver iHP-120/140 MP3 Player ASMedia ASM1051 external drives

Version 3.90, build #407 May 19, 2011 + added the support of Samsung SSD drives + added the support of Iomega MDHD-UE USB external drives Version 3.89, build #403 April 11, 2011 + added the support of Super Top generic USB enclosures + added the support of SandForce SSD drives Version 3.88, build #397 March 1, 2011 + added the support of WD My Passport 0730 and A-DATA SH93 external drives + added the support of Crucial SSD drives Version 3.87, build #393 December 23, 2010 + added the support of WD Elements Desktop 2TB and Iomega LDHD-UP external dri ves

Version 3.86, build #389 November 17, 2010 + added the support of SunPlus 0x04fc:0x0c05 external drives Version 3.85, build #372 October 11, 2010 + added the support of Buffalo JustStore Portable HD-PVU2 external drives Version 3.84, build #364 August 10, 2010 + added the support of WD My Passport Portable external drives Version 3.83, build #361 July 22, 2010 + added the support of Verbatim FW/USB160 external drives Version 3.82, build #358 July 05, 2010 + added the support of Iomega MDHD500-U external drives Version 3.81, build #355 June 15, 2010 + added the support of Genesys Logic and Seagate FreeAgent Go FW external driv es Version 3.80, build #352 May 24, 2010 + added the support of LaCie with JMicron and JMicron (0x2352) external drives o renewed Finnish language (thanks to Vesa Juusola) Version 3.70, build #337 April 26, 2010 + added the support of Hitachi SimpleTech 1TB and WD My Book ES external drive s Version 3.60, build #321 March 31, 2010 + added the support of LaCie Desktop Hard Drive/Samsung Story Station external drives Version 3.50, build #307 February 25, 2010 + added the support of Seagate Expansion Portable external drives Version 3.40, build #287 January 29, 2010 + added the support of WD My Passport (IDE) and Seagate FreeAgent Desktop exte rnal drives Version 3.35, build #279 January 12, 2010 + added the support of WD My Passport Elite and Toshiba PX1270E-1G16 external drives Version 3.33, build #263 December 4, 2009 + added the support of WD My Passport 070A and WD My Passport Essential extern al drives Version 3.32, build #259 November 11, 2009 + added the support of Freecom Hard Drive XS and Toshiba PX1396E-3T01 external drives Version 3.31, build #255 October 10, 2009 + added the support of Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini/Maxtor Basics Portable drives ex ternal drives Version 3.30, build #250 September 14, 2009 + added the support of the Silicon Image Sil 0680 IDE controller and Sil 3112/ 3114/3132/3512 SATA controllers + added the support of the Initio external drives/Lacie hard disk Neil Poulton design drives

Version 3.28, build #241 August 6, 2009 + added the support of Seagate FreeAgent Desk drives + added Serbian language (thanks to Ceca i Milan) o renewed Armenian language (thanks to Hrant Ohanyan) Version 3.27, build #238 June 26, 2009 + application tested on Windows 7 RC1 OS + added the support of Western Digital Elements Desktop and WDE1UBK drives Version 3.26, build #235 May 26, 2009 + added the support of Maxtor OneTouch 4 drives external drives Version 3.25, build #231 May 5, 2009 + added the support of USB/eSATA disks based on the SunPlusIT chips !! fixed the bug when BSOD appeared during the connecting of the Sony Ericsson W810 cell phone to the PC Version 3.21, build #217 April 6, 2009 + added the support of many USB/eSATA disks based on the JMicron chips Version 3.12, build #211 March 12, 2009 + added Danish language (thanks to Mogens Dreier) !! fixed the bug when HDI didn't show S.M.A.R.T. info in the case when HDD didn 't report the S.M.A.R.T. threshold values Version 3.11, build #207 February 14, 2009 + renewed Dutch-Belgium language (thanks to Paul Lowagie) Version 3.1, build #201 January 28, 2009 + added Turkish language (thanks to Burak Erdogan) Version 3.0, build #198 December 18, 2008 + added detecting and displaying new disk features (free-fall control, NV cach e size) o renewed Finnish language (thanks to Vesa Juusola) Version 3.0, build #195 November 18, 2008 o some internal procedures and algorithms improved !! fixed the drawing problem of the disk temperature in the General Info view Version 3.0, build #194 November 6, 2008 + added the support of the 3Ware 8xxx and 9xxx Series RAID controllers + added the support of the SCSI drives + added the support of the Mtron SSD devices o some minor design changes were made o CPU identification algorithm improved o help file improved o some internal procedures and algorithms improved Version 2.102, build #486 October 1, 2008 o some interface elements has been redesigned

Version 2.101, build #483 September 15, 2008 o some internal procedures and algorithms improved !! fixed the bug in HDD Info Service when HDI couldn't get S.M.A.R.T. info in s ome rare cases Version 2.100, build #481 August 28, 2008

S.M.A.R.T. attributes history chart has been redesigned

Version 2.99, build #477 August 7, 2008 o o renewed German language (thanks to Dieter Wellmann) some internal procedures and algorithms improved

Version 2.98, build #475 July 15, 2008 + added Finnish language (thanks to Vesa Juusola) + added the support of the new IOCTLs for getting S.M.A.R.T. data from IDE (AT A/SATA) drives o application tested on Windows 2008 Server OS !! fixed the serious bug which made the application crash in the case when the Desktop color depth was not equal to 32 bit !! fixed the problem when temperature value in the "Health Summary" tab was not repainted in some cases Version 2.95, build #471 May 11, 2008 + added Korean language (thanks to Jung Kyu Park)

Version 2.90, build #467 April 11, 2008 + added Farsi language (thanks to Ali Neamati)

Version 2.85, build #470 March 15, 2008 + renewed Portuguese-Brazil language (thanks to Rossano Ed)

Version 2.80, build #464 February 27, 2008 + added the support of Quik Tech Solutions USB storage adapters

Version 2.70, build #459 February 12, 2008 + added the support of Fujitsu HandyDrive USB disks

Version 2.63, build #451 January 28, 2008 o HTML and TXT reports improved

Version 2.62, build #447 January 7, 2008 + added Romanian language (thanks to Alexandru Butoi) o changed the PowerMode function behaviour in the Hard Drive Inspector for Not ebooks edition. When SATA HDD supported the "Receipt of host-initiated interface power management request" and "Device initiating interface power management" SA TA capabilities then the device might be always in the "StandBy" power mode so H ard Drive Inspector could not show the full HDD info. Version 2.61, build #441 December 2, 2007 !! fixed the error when you received the error massage "There was an unknown er ror during the 'ReloadHDDInfo' method's execution. The error was 0x80004005.Unex pected error." in the case of the erroneous HDD Info Service's installation proc edure

Version 2.60, build #440 November 24, 2007 o some internal procedures and algorithms improved

Version 2.50, build #435 September 18, 2007 o renewed Russian language

Version 2.47, build #427 August 23, 2007 o some internal procedures and algorithms improved

Version 2.46, build #423 August 7, 2007 + added Polish language (thanks to Robert Lubinski)

Version 2.45, build #420 July 18, 2007 + o added Indonesian language (thanks to Yohanes Kurniawan) memory management improved

Version 2.44, build #412 July 2, 2007 o some internal procedures and algorithms improved !! fixed the error when Hard Drive Inspector showed constantly the message ard Drive Inspector couln t set the disk into the Active Power Mode" Version 2.43, build #407 June 25, 2007 + o added Hebrew language (thanks to Zilberman Tzahi) memory management of the HDD Info Service improved The H

Version 2.42, build #402 June 13, 2007 o o some GUI changes were made for a better appearance under MS Windows Vista OS renewed Czech language (thanks to Martin Knor)

Version 2.41, build #398 May 29, 2007 + o new Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks version released renewed Ukrainian language (thanks to Sergo M.)

Version 2.40, build #392 May 23, 2007 o o o es renewed Italian language (thanks to Raffaele Bassetti) renewed Spanish language (thanks to Alberto Castillo) fixed the bug when HDD Info Service might lock the supported by HDI USB driv during the "Safely Remove Hardware" procedure

Version 2.33, build #385 May 14, 2007 + o !! OS added Portuguese-Portugal language (thanks to Carlos Moreira) renewed Hungarian language (thanks to Tibor Papp) fixed the bug when Hard Drive Inspector crashed at startup on Windows Vista with the enabled DEP (Data Execution Prevention) option

Version 2.32, build #380 May 7, 2007 + added the support of USB disks based on the In-System Design chips (USB 2.0 ATA Bridge)

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added Russian help file renewed Slovak language (thanks to Miloslav Kurca) renewed Armenian language (thanks to Hrant Ohanyan)

Version 2.31, build #377 April 30, 2007 + + added Arabic - Saudi Arabia language (thanks to Ammar Fatani) added the option to change the color of the temperature icon text

Version 2.30, build #370 April 23, 2007 + added the support of USB disks based on the I-O DATA chips + added Belarusian language (thanks to Jaroslav Bezlepkin) + all executable modules (.exe, .dll, .msi) including the setup mackage are no w digitally signed by the certificate issued by VeriSign o Hard Drive Inspector doesn't support anymore Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0 OS !! fixed few heap damage errors that might invoke the application crash Version 2.23, build #363 April 17, 2007 + added the ability to determine the Power-on time unit measure. It will requi re not more than 2 hours since the launching of HDD Info Service to determine ex actly the Power-on time unit measure. o removed the procedure which detected incorrectly sometimes the physical loca tion of the PATA drives because there were no more hard binding among PATA devic e physical locations and their positions in the OS since SATA controllers had be en added on the motherboards. o log.err file removed from the HDI's installation folder to the "<disk>:\Docu ments and Settings\<username>\Application Data" one o some help file improvements Version 2.22, build #358 April 11, 2007 + added Bulgarian language (thanks to Kiril) o added new temperature option "Show all temperatures in one window". See the Help for details. o changed the Trial period length from 30 to 14 days Version 2.21, build #355 April 3, 2007 o added the ability to resize main window o added the ability to enable S.M.A.R.T. on the HDDs in the USB enclosures !! fixed the error when there appeared the USB shadows of the PATA/SATA disks c onnected to the internal controllers sometimes !! fixed the drawing procedure of the "Temperature diagram" when changing tempe rature units from "Fahrenheit" to "Celsius" degree !! fixed the bug when the value of the "Play sound warning" option of the "Reli ability Control" section of the "Options" dialog was not saved during the sessio ns and there was not ability to turn off the sound Version 2.20, build #350 March 27, 2007 + added the support of USB disks based on the Cypress AT2 chips (USB to ATA/AT API bridge) !! fixed the bug with the list control tooltip window when it appeared in the n ot prescribed position

Version 2.11, build #337 March 21, 2007 o changed the drive filter system in the HDD Info Service in that way if a dri ve had no addressable sectors then it was skipped. It was done to skip ATAPI CD/ DVD-ROMs that supported ATA commands. !! fixed the dialog sizing problems when non-standard screen DPI-settings were selected Version 2.1, build #328 March 10, 2007 o added "Skip drives that report wrong S.M.A.R.T. data" option

Version 2.1, build #327 March 8, 2007 o o renewed Greek language (thanks to Kostas Sidiropoulos) renewed German language (thanks to Jrgen Tomasi)

!! fixed the bug in the HDD Temperature diagram in case when "10 seconds" time scale was selected and the temperature history was too long to be drawn on the s creen Version 2.0, build #323 o February 23, 2007

renewed Chinese - Taiwan language (thanks to Joanna) February 13, 2007

Version 2.0, build #317 + +

added new "Basic" Mode for better usability new color scheme was applied for the "Health Summary" View (the old name was "General Info" tab)

+ added "Automatic Acoustic Management" and "Advanced Power Management" featur es. See the "Options" dialog for details. + "HDD Info Service" may launch Hard Drive Inspector in the following case whe n the status of your HDDs may become "Danger" at the time of Hard Drive Inspecto r's non-running. + added the changeable time scale to the "Temperature diagram". You can see te mperature values in "10 seconds"/"1 minute"/"10 minutes"/"1 hour" time scales. + "HDD Info Service" stores HDD's temperature history so when Hard Drive Inspe ctor starts it shows temperature history for all "HDD Info Service"'s run-time. + added "Power-on time" value calculated on the "Power-On Hours" attribute's r aw value to the "General Info" view o o o o o "Options" dialog was renewed for better usability help file was renewed for better usability "Prognosis" tab was removed renewed Hungarian language (thanks to Tibor Papp) renewed Dutch - The Netherlands language (thanks to Koos van Riemsdijk)

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renewed Armenian language (thanks to Hrant Ohanyan) renewed Ukrainian language (thanks to Sergo M.) many internal procedures and algorithms improved/fixed February 8, 2007

Version 1.99, build #1023 + o

added Hungarian language (thanks to Tibor Papp) many internal procedures and algorithms improved/fixed January 11, 2007

Version 1.98, build #1014

!! fixed the bug when HDI couldn't detect HDDs if the SATA disks were configure d to work in AHCI mode in the "IDE Configuration" section of BIOS Version 1.97, build #1011 o December 30, 2006

renewed Chinese - Taiwan language (thanks to Joanna) December 14, 2006

Version 1.96, build #1007 +

added Dutch - The Netherlands language (thanks to Koos van Riemsdijk)

o changed the "HDD Info Service" installation procedure. It doesn't require th e OS restarting now. Version 1.95, build #987 o November 30, 2006

renewed Spanish language (thanks to Jeremy Mora)

!! fixed the error when HDI could not be launched displaying message "Can't loa d dlgres.dll resource library" under MS Windows 98/ME OS Version 1.94, build #984 November 22, 2006

!! fixed the error when HDI icon appears in the ALT/Tab list of running program s in case when the "Hide in system status area" option was checked Version 1.94, build #983 + November 20, 2006

added Greek language (thanks to Kostas Sidiropoulos) November 8, 2006

Version 1.93, build #978

!! fixed the error when the main window didn't hide during the minimization pro cedure in case when the "Hide in system status area" option was checked Version 1.93, build #977 October 31, 2006

o changed the color of the description text in the "General Info" view in case s when HDD's status is not OK o few internal procedures and algorithms improved October 23, 2006

Version 1.93, build #975 +

added Czech language (thanks to Jir Bayer)

!! fixed the error when HDI couldn't be launched on the MS Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0 systems because of the static linking to the InternetSetCallbackStatusW functio n in the wininet.dll Version 1.92, build #970 + October 9, 2006

added Chinese - Taiwan language (thanks to Joanna)

!! fixed the error when HDI didn't launch a program specified in the "Run progr am" option of the "Temperature" and in the "Run program on critical changes" opt ion of the "S.M.A.R.T. monitoring" sections of the "Options" dialog in the case when path contained spaces or quotation marks. Version 1.91, build #965 o o September 28, 2006

registration scheme has been changed some internal procedures and algorithms improved September 15, 2006

Version 1.9, build #963 +

added Portuguese-Brazil language (thanks to Jesus Lopez Aros) August 19, 2006

Version 1.88, build #954 +

added/changed the description of many S.M.A.R.T. attributes August 2, 2006

Version 1.87, build #953 +

added Ukrainian language (thanks to Sergo M.) June 30, 2006

Version 1.85, build #950 + + o

added Arabic - Syria language (thanks to Salem Almesmary) added Vietnamese language (thanks to Vuong Do Thanh Huy) identified S.M.A.R.T. attribute 190 for Western Digital disks May 24, 2006

Version 1.8, build #931

+ a new registration key system. Note: if you have already bought a license f or Hard Drive Inspector, contact AltrixSoft Support Team for getting a new one. o new "Already Installed" installation page which is shown when the installati on procedure is launched for the second time without uninstalling the previous v ersion of Hard Drive Inspector o new "HDDs are in use since" installation page. It allows you to enter the da te when you have started to utilize your HDDs. When this date is set, it becomes most likely that Hard Drive Inspector will be able to make a correct prognosis right at the moment, even if you just started to use Hard Drive Inspector. It al so significantly improves the prognosis s quality. This date cannot be later than today and earlier than 01/01/1990. Version 1.7, build #923 + April 13, 2006

added Slovak language (thanks to Miloslav Kurca) March 23, 2006

Version 1.6, build #920

added Chinese (China) language (thanks to XiaoSD) March 8, 2006

Version 1.6, build #918 + +

Hard Drive Inspector is now compatible with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode. added Slovenian language (thanks to Jadran Rudec) February 1, 2006

Version 1.6, build #915 o

many code patched to be compatible with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode. The next version will be compiled with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode DLL (UnicoWS .dll). o the prognosis algorithm corrected February 1, 2006

Version 1.5, build #908 +

added Dutch-Belgium language (thanks to Geert Pirens) January 20, 2006

Version 1.5, build #902

!! fixed the error when focused some items, hitting the Enter key cleared the c ontents in the "S.M.A.R.T. details" and "Prognosis" views, "Options" dialog !! In the "General Info" view when the "Death time" was over the message was li ke '-1 days left'. Changed to '1 days are past'. !! fixed the GUI resource leaks and errors Version 1.5, build #895 January 8, 2006

!! fixed the error when the up and down scroll bar was not displayed even if th e contents became too long on the advanced info view. This happened when there w as one HDD in the PC. !! fixed the problem of writing to the Application Event Log of incomplete info rmation Version 1.5, build #893 + + November 26, 2005

a dded new feature to send mails through SMTP (see "Options" window topic) a dded Spanish language (thanks to Sergio Gustavo Rambaud) October 5, 2005

Version 1.4, build #877 +

a dded French language (thanks to Jean-Nol Brandenburger)

o added # column with the S.M.A.R.T. attribute's number to the S.M.A.R.T. deta ils table to lighten the searching procedure of attributes in the Help Version 1.4, build #873 + September 8, 2005

a dded German language (thanks to Jrgen Tomasi) August 24, 2005

Version 1.4, build #870

o help file, some internal procedures and algorithms improved

Version 1.3, build #848

July 14, 2005

o fixed an error in the T.E.C. date prediction algorithm. It causes that Hard Drive Inspector tells about a near hdd's death time even if the "HDD is in use" date was entered correctly. Version 1.3, build #847 + June 14, 2005

a dded Italian language (thanks to Nicola Lazzaris) May 31, 2005

Version 1.3, build #846 o o

help file, some internal procedures and algorithms improved there's no more support of MS Windows 95 OS April 27, 2005

Version 1.3, build #844

!! fixed a bug applying to "Hard Drive Inspector is not able to deal with your hdd models now..." message under MS Windows 95 OSR2 / MS Windows 98 / MS Windows ME. Version 1.3, build #842 April 8, 2005

!! fixed a bug applying to "Hard Drive Inspector is not able to deal with your hdd models now..." message under MS Windows 2000. Version 1.3, build #840 + March 14, 2005

a more realistic T.E.C. date prediction algorithm

o t he 'X' button minimizes to tray now. The only "Exit" menu exits the progra m. !! many errors corrected: - the program disabled window contents display on movement, despite global W indows user settings; - temperature meters in the tray stopped being updated after some time; - in "General Info" temperature graph link and label for the second hard dis k disappeared after some time; - SMART was updated only once on program start-up, despite the request of up dating once an hour - and others. Version 1.2, build #825 + February 23, 2005

Added Norwegian (Bokmel) language (thanks to Eddie Johansen). February 5, 2005

Version 1.2, build #824

!! fixed a serious error which may arise under Windows 95/98/ME with two messag es: 1) "The ...\HDInspector.exe file appears to be corrupt. Reinstall the file, and then try again."; 2) "Windows cannot run this program because it is in an in valid format.".

Version 1.2, build #823

January 13, 2005

+ ability to operate with up to 32 hard disk drives on the Windows NT/2000/XP/ 2003 OS now (before only up to 4 disks) + detection of HDD's arrival/removal in the hot-swapping mode

+ a new registration key system. Note: if you have already bought a license f or Hard Drive Inspector, contact AltrixSoft Support Team for getting a new one. o the installation will not start until you have administrative rights on the local computer. It also won't run if you don't have MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher installed. Version 1.1, build #807 o November 29, 2004

many internal procedures and algorithms improved. October 11, 2004

Version 1.0, build #759 + the first release

Version 0.9, pre-release + !! many features added

November 17, 2003

some major and a lot of minor bugs fixed December 25, 2002

Version 0.2, first beta-version + the first beta-version

Version 0.1, first alpha-version + the first alpha-version

January 7, 2002