Veteran drive monitor Hard Disk Sentinel has just been updated to version 5.0, the first major release in more than a year. The Professional build gets a new "Repair disk drive" method which scans for weak sectors and forces the hard drive to stabilize problems, or reallocate sectors if necessary. Experts can now also initiate a manual repair of sector directly from the disk viewer. All HDS versions get more control over the testing process, with options to set a custom pattern for disk writes and a maximum retry count. HDS Pro can now run surface tests on multiple hard…
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