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Hi bondisdead, thanks for responding. I will email the developer too, but as you said, I don't think they will consider this. You were using 2012 version of their software, I had 2013. My card reader is external, IOGEAR USB2.0 multi-card reader, model GUH286. I was trying to read my compact flash card with that card reader and it would not show up in the explorer. I never thought a software would create a problem like this. I am surprised how you found out. The card would show up for about 8 mins for me, if I unplug the USB cable of the reader from my laptop, disconnect the card reader's power supply, connect the USB cable back to laptop and then apply power to card reader.
I will try Hard Disk Sentinel as you mentioned for SMART. Thanks again.