To make sure there is enough of free space for extracting and installing Acronis Drive Monitor,
click Disk usage... button, which opens a window with a list of hard drives and their disk space
usage information. Click Close to return to the install wizard.
Click Extract.
2.3 Running Acronis Drive Monitor
You can run Acronis Drive Monitor in Windows by selecting Start → Programs → Acronis → Acronis
Drive Monitor → Acronis Drive Monitor or by clicking on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop.
2.4 Removing Acronis Drive Monitor
Select Start → Settings → Control panel → Add or remove programs → Acronis Drive Monitor →
Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your computer
afterwards to complete the task.
If you use Windows Vista, select Start → Control panel → Programs and Features → Acronis Drive
Monitor → Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your
computer afterwards to complete the task.
3 Using Acronis Drive Monitor
This chapter describes the main features of the Acronis Drive Monitor.
3.1 Summary page
The first page to be opened is a Summary page, where the current state of disks, available backup
archives and other options are displayed.
When your disks do not experience any hardware problems and your data is protected with recent
backups for all monitored disks, you will see green icons at each section on the right. Yellow icons
warn you about non-critical problems with the disks, reported by S.M.A.R.T. or a custom script (p.
13).
The red icons alarm you about critical problems with your hard drives. This means a critical
parameter's value decreased below the threshold and indicates an imminent drive failure.
In case disks and/or backups are not monitored, corresponding icons (as well as tray icons) will be
grayed out.
To view detailed information and change settings you can click on the links in the end of each
section:
Disks
The Disks section shows brief information on your hard disks state, if they are being monitored by
Acronis Drive Monitor.
Drive monitoring checks hardware parameters, such as temperature, head stability, spin-up time,
etc. (see S.M.A.R.T. parameters (p. 4) article for details).
