Acronis Drive Monitor

Acronis® Drive Monitor

User's Guide

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Table of contents 1

Introduction ..........................................................................................................................4 1.1

What is Acronis® Drive Monitor? ..............................................................................................4

1.2

About S.M.A.R.T. parameters ....................................................................................................4

1.3

System requirements and supported media .............................................................................5

1.3.1 1.3.2

1.4 2

3

Technical support ......................................................................................................................5

Acronis Drive Monitor installation and startup .......................................................................6 2.1

Installing Acronis Drive Monitor ................................................................................................6

2.2

Extracting Acronis Drive Monitor ..............................................................................................6

2.3

Running Acronis Drive Monitor .................................................................................................7

2.4

Removing Acronis Drive Monitor ..............................................................................................7

Using Acronis Drive Monitor ..................................................................................................7 3.1

Summary page ...........................................................................................................................7

3.2

Disks ...........................................................................................................................................8

3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.2.5

Disk overview................................................................................................................................................... 9 S.M.A.R.T. parameters .................................................................................................................................. 10 Events ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Health calculating ..................................................................................................