Festplattenwarner
A quiet Windows tray app that checks all ready drives at configurable intervals, charts used space and warns when free space becomes low.
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Runs in the tray, supports autostart, stores data in the working folder and switches language from the tray context menu.
Features
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Drives | Checks all ready drives, including late letters such as Y: and Z:; mapped, CD/DVD, RAM, floppy and tape drives are shown grey and excluded from totals. |
| Chart | Shows used space with percent or TB scaling; history charts alternate between full scale and warning scale, show forecast quality and explain gray excluded drive types directly in the chart. |
| SMART | Prefers Hard Disk Sentinel via WMI, then XML/E:\HDSentinel and smartctl. HDSentinel drive IDs are mapped to Windows Disk # so USB/UASP disks also show SMART values in the main table. |
| Connection | The drive table shows disk and connection side by side: SATA, USB, UASP, SCSI, SAS, NVMe, IDE or other reported adapter text plus internal/external marking when detectable. |
| Identification | A drive can be identified from the right-click menu with a short safe read pattern. The app only reads small blocks from existing files and does not write anything. |
| Warnings | Defaults: below 10 GB free or below 2 percent free; each drive can have its own thresholds; the table can optionally show critical drives only. |
| Recycle bin | Shows recycle bin size per drive; automatic cleanup is off by default. |
| Language | German/English, OS default on first start, tray right-click switching; settings can be exported and imported as JSON. |