The lower table displays a series of more in-depth details, designed to help experienced users. Some basic info is already available, such as the firmware, serial number, interface, drive letter and buffer size of your device. Once you launch the application, you'll notice that the main window enables you to start analyzing your hard disk drive. Moreover, you can skip the whole installation process given that there is also a portable version available that only requires you to unpack an archive and launch an executable. You just need to run the setup package, accept the terms of the End User License Agreement and follow the on-screen instructions provided by the wizard. Effortless installationĭeploying this application to your computer is no rocket science. Luckily for you, there's a wide selection of software solutions such a CrystalDiskInfo that was designed to help you do just that: keep an eye on your hard disk drive's state and also keeping it in good shape.

Or - a desperate measure but useful - try running crystal disk in safe mode - just in case there is some program blocking it from running.If you don't really believe in storing things outside of your hard drive, you'd better do anything in your power to preserve its well-being, since if it goes down, it's taking everything on it to the digital grave. Try temporarily disabling your antivirus software to see if that helps. You could try running it from a USB key to see if that helps. It occurred to me that perhaps the program is being blocked on your computer by some antivirus software or that Crystal Disk doesn't have access permission to your drive. Hi Mike - I just downloaded and tried it on my new Dell laptop and it worked fine. Here's a quote from a hardware forum, 'Third party disk diagnostic applications (Crystal DiskInfo, HDD Scan, SSD utilities, or even the 'Disk Health' app within Linux-based PartEdMagic) see it as an unidentified drive which does not support polling of SMART data and can return nothing except its model number and nominal 64 GB capacity.'

I learned something new today about eMMC memory like your laptop has. Click to expand.Ignore the message below - it's what Growltiger posted.

Crystal disc info download