Save your mind and save trouble. Disk health moves to the desktop

                  O&O DriveLED is a very interesting software that can display the read and write status of all the disks in the system on the desktop, including hard disk partitions, USB disks, network drives, virtual drives, etc., can report the current status of the disk, such as whether Reading and writing, use time, temperature, reading and writing errors, etc., is really a rare assistant.

The latest version of O&O DriveLED can be downloaded from http://www.oo-software.com/en/download/index.shtml. The current version number is 2.0 Build 383, which can be used in Windows NT/2000. It is used under the /XP/2003 operating system. Unfortunately, this is a shareware that can only be used for 30 days.

(As shown in Figure 1), after the O&O DriveLED is installed, a toolbar will be displayed on the desktop. From left to right, the local drive, removable drive, floppy drive, network drive, double-click the disk icon. You can open the Disk Manager window and double-click the network drive icon to bring up the Network Neighborhood or Network Connection window, which is much more convenient.



1. See leftmost hard disk space


icon indicates a physical disk, no data or code on an icon, the subsequent C, D, E, F, G, H naturally represent the corresponding logical partition on the hard disk, the color block on each partition represents the space of the drive, the green bar is the proportion of occupied space, if it is red, then Indicates that the space of the partition is in a state of tension. Double-clicking on a partition icon will open the "My Computer" window and display the resource status of the partition by default.

2. Viewing disk read and write state

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it is the right of the USB disk, if you are on the USB disk read and write operations, then this icon It will be displayed in red, so we don't have to go to the back of the case or bend down to see if the flash drive is in the read/write state, so you don't have to worry about plugging and unplugging. Of course, when we read and write to other disks (hard disks or floppy disks), the corresponding icons will also be displayed in red. You can easily identify whether the disk is in the read or write state, instead of drilling under the table. Hard disk indicator.

It is worth mentioning that, O & O DriveLED not only the hard disk indicator displayed on the desktop, and can display the working status of each partition and even network disk, as long as the observation icon is red or green, We can quickly distinguish between being in the read/write state.

3.Check the health of the disk


Double-click the long waist icon in the middle of Figure 1 (ie The icon showing the n/a character), we will see the window shown in Figure 2, which shows the running time in addition to the hard disk model, firmware version, serial number and other general information. ), Boot procedures, Temperatue and other parameters, in fact, this is the result of calling SMART technology, if you find the word "Error" here, please backup your data.



if you think O & eyesore to stay on the desktop O DriveLED, you can choose from the context menu "Minimize" minimize it, you can also "→ Alpha View" from the menu Set different transparency effects, not much to say here.