HDD Informer

HDD Informer is a lightweight and portable application you can use to gather and analyze detailed information about your hard drive and removable storage units, such as disk geometry, serial numbers, and sectors per track. It doesn't implement editing or exporting settings, since it acts only as a system information viewer.

Graphical interface with a console look

The application is encased in a simple interface that resembles the Command Prompt appearance due to the green text placed on a black background in a command-line layout.
System information is collected at program startup automatically, so there's no need to manually perform a scan operation. The software utility reads the drive's internal structure and shows the user rights applied for physical access, such as vendor and product ID, product revision, and serial number.

View and copy drive information

Furthermore, you can examine details about the disk geometry of each drive, like whether it's fixed or removable, total cylinders, tracks per cylinder, sectors per track, bytes per sector, and disk size. The total and free space available on each partition are displayed too.
There are no buttons implemented for copying, printing or saving all information to file. However, you can select and copy text using the Ctrl+C hotkey or by opening the context menu.

Doesn't require installation

The downloaded pack has an executable file that can be saved anywhere on the hard disk or stored on a pen drive to launch HDD Informer on any computer with little effort.
The app doesn't add new entries to the registry or generate additional files on the disk without permission. To perform an uninstall, it's only necessary to delete the .exe item.

Evaluation and conclusion

To sum it up, HDD Informer provides a straightforward solution for reading some details about fixed and removable drives. It's lightweight, easy to use, and consumed minimal system resources in our tests.