HDD SMART software recommendation

[ic1male]

My PC is on its very last legs now and randomly shuts down at inopportune moments almost every day. Today it did it during a copy/write process. I did a disk check in Windows 10 using the Command Prompt CHKDSK D: /F and nothing untoward flagged up but sometimes there are problems that aren't detected without doing a /R but that would take more than 24 hours on a 2TB drive.

Is there any free software you can recommend that queries the HDD's SMART interface so you can see if it's detecting bad sectors and whathaveyou?

Thanks.

 

[theforce]

PC randomly shutting down would rather point to a failing PSU. Seems like you have old hardware and the PSU might be on its last legs. I would recommend Hwinfo for SMART monitoring. Have you checked event viewer for any suspicious events right before the PC shuts down?

 

[ic1male]

Oh yeah, it's got to be a power problem. I'm just wondering whether every time it crashes if data is getting corrupted on my data drive. As I say, yesterday it went right in the middle of saving.

There's nothing in the event log about it.