Many hard disk drives have a Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) capability. On a Microsoft Windows system, you can use a utility such as SpeedFan to query the S.M.A.R.T, or SMART, information for a drive. You can also check the status of a drive using a Windows Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) command by issuing the command
wmic diskdrive get status at a
command prompt, though you
won't get the same level of detail. But if you have
multiple drives in or atached to the system, you will need to use an
additional parameter to identify which status applies to which drive. You
could include the size and/or model, e.g.:C:\Users\Lila>wmic diskdrive get status, size, model Model Size Status Seagate Backup+ Desk SCSI Disk Device 5000970240000 OK Seagate Backup+ Desk USB Device 4000776192000 OK Generic- Compact Flash USB Device OK Generic- SD/MMC USB Device OK Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device OK WD My Book 1140 USB Device 2000363420160 OK Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device OK WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0 ATA Device 4000784417280 OK C:\Users\Lila>
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