Get drive health or wearout percentage?

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Get drive health or wearout percentage?

Peter Volz 1,295

Hello experts,

Is there any way in vb.net (or C#) to get the system drive health?

My Samsung Magician shows drive health as Good: 94.2 TB written.

Can we get this data using .net? Mostly for m2 or sata drives.

What about getting the S.M.A.R.T status?

Thanks :)

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Castorix31 90,686

You can use WMI with MSFT_Disk (HealthStatus)

or

VDS interfaces with VDS_DISK_PROP (VDS_HEALTH)

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Anonymous

2023-10-15T12:37:02.4566667+00:00

@Peter Volz Hi Sorry to interrupt your thread. I saw you had posted a comment and opened the thread to view it. I couldn't find any additional comment. I have been having this kind of rubbish from the forum for a long time and this is the latest. Your comment is shown in the thread summary list, but, strangely, NOT in your profile list and of course, not in the actual thread. Would you please tell me: a) did you post the comment? b) can you see the comment in the thread? c) did you have an issue when posting it? d) has the comment been deleted by a moderator?
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2023-10-15T14:42:17.8033333+00:00

. I have been having this kind of rubbish from the forum for a long time

Yes, I also see that there is a comment from Peter Volz and I cannot see it

I also see that there is another answer, and also invisible.

And this happens for months, in many threads...
RLWA32 49,636 Reputation points

2023-10-15T15:26:20.5566667+00:00

@Peter Volz I opened a thread about the Q&A Site failure to timely update for Answers and Comments back in January 2023. Feel free to add your opinion and observations concerning this extremely annoying and continuing problem.

What happened to the Answer that I posted?
Anonymous

2023-10-15T16:21:41.5433333+00:00

@RLWA32 I also had a prolonged bitch about this and many other deficiencies in the Q&A forum, Don't think there has been any improvements (except, seems the spam deluge has been stemmed).

I have lost all faith in this forum and only participate occasionally now. My protest, worth nothing, is to delete / recreate my profile so that I am less ashamed of having a 'reputation' in the forum.

I don't pay much attention to the multitude garbage spewed out by the forum. For example, my first try to post an edit to the comment above, I had an error telling me there was no comment to post so I just closed the site and tried later.
Peter Volz 1,295 Reputation points

2023-10-15T19:11:01.71+00:00

Hello

Thanks all, this is an old nasty bug in the forum, I'd call it the new Indian Occupied Microsoft Standards! :D

Workaround would be to open new threads rather than posting responds.

A fountain will eventually fall down :)

I hope this gets posted :D

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Peter Volz 1,295

Thanks for the tip, I've found this:

Dim MyMClass As ManagementClass = New ManagementClass(".\ROOT\Microsoft\Windows\Storage:MSFT_Disk")
For Each MyMObject As ManagementObject In MyMClass.GetInstances()
    MyMObject("HealthStatus").ToString > 0=OK 1=Warning 2=Error Else=UnknownNext
Next

Is this correct? Because I just need this data for the system / boot drive, nowhere specified that in the code.

Best :)

Castorix31 90,686

Use WMI Code Creator to generate code, that you can modify afterwards

For example, by adding IsBoot :

            Try
                Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher( _
                    "root\Microsoft\Windows\Storage", _
                    "SELECT * FROM MSFT_Disk WHERE IsBoot = True") 

                For Each queryObj As ManagementObject in searcher.Get()

                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------")
                    Console.WriteLine("MSFT_Disk instance")
                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------")
                    Console.WriteLine("HealthStatus: {0}", queryObj("HealthStatus"))
                Next
            Catch err As ManagementException
                MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " & err.Message)
            End Try

Peter Volz 1,295 Reputation points

2023-10-16T08:59:05.7133333+00:00

wow thanks a lot, what a great usage :)

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