External USB 2.0 Hard Drive & S.M.A.R.T.

For an External USB 2.0 Hard Drive is there a Windows software (Freeware) that can read the S.M.A.R.T. to see if the drive is possibly failing?

Thanks in Advance.

 

Have a look at HDDScan.

 

CrystalDiskInfo

 

HD Sentinel Free is IMHO the best !

 

By"HD Sentinel Free", do you mean HD Sentinel Pro Trial v3.50 + nagscreen.
Or maybe can we find a true free version of it with some less features?

 

Some features are restricted in the non registered version, but many do work, including the ones you want I think. And it's just a small nag screen only once at launch. It installs and uninstalls fine, so you have little to lose trialling it.

 

Thanks for your reply MerleOne. Ok, after a first run I think I will like it anough to keep it installed on my Xp box. And you are right about the unregistered version including the main features that I am looking for. Another plus for it is that it also works on 64-bit systems

 

And it updates automatically from within the application.

 

I just get sometimes on a Vista machine an invalid floating point operation error at startup time, but I guess it's some kind of H/W glitch.