SharewareOnSale: Macrorit Disk Scanner Pro 4.3.7 (for free!)

[xilolee]

This promotion is available on sharewareonsale.com from today Sun 24 January 2021 09:00am Italian time - UTC +1 or CET - for seven days (until Sun 31 January 2021 08:59am Italian time - UTC +1 or CET).

SharewareOnSale - Disk Scanner Pro: Find Corrupt Hard Drive (click)

This program can not display the SMART attributes and will not check them.

Current version number: 4.3.7
Product webpage: Macrorit Disk Scanner Pro + Edition
Software house: Macrorit® from Bada Technology Co., Ltd.
Website: [Official] Macrorit Partition Managers | Bootable Portable Partition Manager
Available versions: free, pro and unlimited (in addition to the installer, the portable version is available)
Normal price for the pro version: Euro 17.10 (+22% VAT = Euro 20.86) - US Dollars 18.95 (VAT excluded)
Normal price for the unlimited version: Euro 90.20 (+22% VAT = Euro 110.04) - US Dollars 99.95 (VAT excluded)
It is a Lifetime license (one license per user), upgrades included.
Supported OSs in PRO version: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 - 32/64bit (8.1 not mentioned, but probably supported)
Supported OSs in UNLIMITED version: like the PRO and Windows SBS 2012/2011/2008/2003, Windows Server 2019/2016/2012/2008/2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)

 

[Digerati]

@ xilolee Thanks for this but I have to wonder, have you used this program? Are you familiar with it? I am curious because if you follow your first link and scroll down to the "Featured" reviews, the only 3 listed reviews certainly are not "glowing" with 2 getting just 1 star out of 5, and the 3rd review getting just 2 out of 5 stars.

So outside of the price, I am not seeing any incentive to try it.

FYI - not sure where those prices came from but for the record, there is no such thing as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the US. "If" there is a "sales tax", it is imposed on purchases by each individual state, and in some cases, local cities and counties too. There is no national sales tax and the tax rates even vary from state to state from 0% in a few states up to 7.5% in California. Then local municipalities can add their own local sales tax on top of the state sales taxes.

Yes, it is a confusing mess. Especially if, like me, you live in a metropolitan area that encompasses cities in two different states and each state and each city/town in the metro area has different sales tax rates.

 

[xilolee]

The reviews are old.
Those users complained about smart, slowness and that it doesn't exclude bad blocks/sectors.
For the smart, I wrote the function isn't present.
For the bad sectors, I couldn't verify it: the test lasted 1 hour and a bit of minutes and my Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD (ST500DM002-1BD142) passed it.
For sure, the program is user-friendly: no complicated options are available.
VAT: lucky you.

Given that (the paid version) it is free, you can try it and draw your own conclusions...

 

[Digerati]

I realize they are old - that's actually part of my point. If I were marketing something (even to give away) I would not post 3 bad (and only bad) reviews and call them "featured".

As for VAT and being lucky, not sure most would agree. There are lots of other taxes imposed on us and we still have a crumbling infrastructure, pot-holed streets, poorly paid teachers, and the most expensive health care system in the world that does NOT provide the best health care.

The grass is always greener... .

 

[xilolee]

I realize they are old - that's actually part of my point. If I were marketing something (even to give away) I would not post 3 bad (and only bad) reviews and call them "featured".

That happens because SoS is another company, different than macrorit.
What would be the point of reviews if they would be all positives?

As for VAT and being lucky, not sure most would agree. There are lots of other taxes imposed on us and we still have a crumbling infrastructure, pot-holed streets, poorly paid teachers, and the most expensive health care system in the world that does NOT provide the best health care.

I would have said the same for my country.
I'd change only "it provides (almost) free assistance to everyone", in our case (no insurance needed).

 

[Digerati]

That happens because SoS is another company, different than macrorit.

Yes, but you would have to assume there was some sort of agreement between the two - or else the giving away of lifetime licenses would not be authorized. Note I did not say anything about legal, just unauthorized.

 

[xilolee]

Yes, but you would have to assume there was some sort of agreement between the two - or else the giving away of lifetime licenses would not be authorized. Note I did not say anything about legal, just unauthorized.

Giveaway websites are there to provide valuable critics and comments to the software authors (by the users that try the software).
If the software is good, it will receive very positive comments and the software will gain good reputation.
The SMART complain could encourage macrorit developers to add it in their next versions.
Or they could have not included it by purpose and for some reason.

For example, the fact that it's user-friendly could attract less experienced users.
It just does the test: the test could be good or bad.
If it's good, all good.
If it's bad, just dump the disk (or use their advanced methods: they propose macrorit disk partition expert methods).

 

[Digerati]

Giveaway websites are there to provide valuable critics and comments to the software authors (by the users that try the software).

Most of the time, I would agree. But most of the time in those cases, it is to introduce new versions and expose potentially new customers to those new versions. I don't know what is happening in this case. Also, it seems to me if the developer wanted to do that, they could easily do it through their own site. So again, not sure what is happening here.

To be sure, I fully understand, accept and agree with the concept and the process for shareware and freeware. In fact, unlike many, I typically pay for shareware or donate to the developers of freeware for programs I like and continue to use. So you are preaching to the choir in that respect. I totally agree with it.

But I am talking about this specific disk scanner program and the giveaway for it. Neither makes much sense to me. The criticism about SMART, for example. That seems to go back several years. This latest version mentions nothing about it. It just says it "Fix some minor erros". The change log, which sadly, stops with V4.2.0 mentions nothing about S.M.A.R.T. So it seems the developers were not encouraged to add it after users complained, as we might have hoped.

In fact, if you look at the Macrorit Disk Scanner Resources page, there is a link there for Check disk S.M.A.R.T. info. But if you follow it, it talks about checking the S.M.A.R.T. status via a cmd prompt, through a PowerShell prompt, or with CrystalDiskInfo - a much more capable competing product! ???

If you look here where the company compares it to other products, it claims,

bad disk sectors are the main cause of blue screen errors on Windows computer

"The main cause"? No they aren't.

And why are they comparing it to Defraggler? Defraggler is a defragment too. Macrorit is not a defragment too. And it claims Defraggler "scans the disk for hardware faults and corrupt disk sectors and further reports to the user". Ummm, no it doesn't.

If the software is good, it will receive very positive comments and the software will gain good reputation.

Agreed. But again - that did not happen here with 3 reviews, all negative.

No doubt, I appreciate you posting this offer. But there are other more capable, more extensive programs, including CrystalDiskInfo (which is free and upgradeable, BTW), SeaTools, WD Lifeguard (for WD drives), HDDScan, or DiskCheckUP.

To me, running windows own Error Checking or chkdsk /r every so often and/or perhaps CrystalDiskInfo (since is reports the S.M.A.R.T. status) is all I need. So I am just not finding any incentive to even try this.

If Macrorit did report the S.M.A.R.T. status, and I didn't have a good S.M.A.R.T. status app like CrystalDiskInfo, then it would make sense to try it out. But it doesn't.

Sorry.