Acronis Drive Monitor is a free, downloadable software application developed to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives
Acronis® Drive Monitor™ provides an early warning of drive malfunction that can make all the difference between the data you have and the data you could potentially lose. It also encourages you to secure your data it by backing it up with Acronis True Image Home 2010.

I installed this software on my laptop with no problems and it immediately alerted me to the fact that I have a bad sector on my hard disk (which I already knew about). It also provides temperature warnings, and the limits can be manually adjusted to whatever values you prefer. Here are some actual screen shots from my laptop (click to see enlarged image):

Highly recommended software from well-reknowned company. Acronis Drive Monitor is a free and can be downloaded by clicking here. 

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James is the owner of WindowsTalk.org and has been a Microsoft Windows Consumer MVP since 2003.