| Drive
Fitness |
| Programs to help analyze, monitor, &
restore the health of your drives. |
| Drive Fitness Test | Data Advisor | SMART Defender |
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| Drive Fitness Test
(v3.77) |
| This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette
to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable
method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze
function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (However,
Drive Fitness Test is bundled with some restoration utilities that will
overwrite data.)
V3.77 changes include:
- Updated product support
- Fix occasional high capacity ATA drive timeout during erase disk
- Continuous improvement
Note:
Please see the user guide for help on using Drive Fitness Test. Additional Documentation:  Users guide | White paper | Data sheet |
Features: |
Supports SCSI and IDE drives, including Serial-ATA drives
Note: Currently, the Drive Fitness Test does not support Microdrives,
or Travelstar E drives. |
Analyzes drive fitness |
- Three modes of operation:
-- High confidence level Quick test (unmatched in the drive industry)
-- Full media scan
-- Exerciser - Performs real-time analysis of you drive to quickly determine whether
the drive has a problem.
- Identifies system problems such as cables, temperature, etc.
- Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track potential
impacts to the operation of the drive.
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Restores drive fitness
Note: these utilities will overwrite customer data and allow repair
of bad sectors. |
- Erase Bootsector utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Boot Sector)
- Low-level format utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Disk)
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| Utilities |
- Drive information
- S.M.A.R.T. Operations for IDE hard disk drives
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Download Drive Fitness Test |
| Note: This download creates a self-booting
DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. You can create the diskette under Windows
or under Linux, using the binary version, but you must start your system
with the DOS bootable diskette to run DFT. DFT can only be used with x86
based processors. |
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 Download
Windows diskette creator (2,119KB) - creates DOS bootable diskette | Readme | Having trouble creating the bootable diskette? |
Download binary diskette image (non-Windows systems) (1,440KB) - creates DOS bootable diskette | Readme
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| Download a CD image (non-Windows systems, v3.73) (1,838KB) - create a bootable CD |
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| OGT Diagnostic Tool |
| The OGT diagnostic tool is a failure analysis tool for Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73, and DK32XX products. - Consumers and end users should use this tool instead of DFT for Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73, and DK32XX drives only.
- Performs diagnostic testing and failure analysis.
- Windows version only.
- The OGT will perform necessary tests to the drives and can perform failure analysis automatically.
Additional documentation: Users guide
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Download Windows Version (3,738KB) |
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| Ontrack Data
Advisor™ |
| Data Advisor is a self-booting, easy to use,
diagnostic software to determine data access problems. It analyzes file
systems, boot sectors, Master Boot Record, memory etc. It guides the user
through traditional or new Remote Data Recovery (RDR) services. |
 Go to Ontrack
download page *registration required |
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| SMART Defender |
| SMART Defender is no longer available for download.
Similar freeware and shareware programs are available from various download
Web sites. |
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| Installation
tools |
| Utilities to help you install your new drive |
| Disk Manager | Feature Tool |
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| Disk Manager
|
| Looking for Disk Manager? Disk Manager is no
longer available for download on our site, because systems with Windows
XP and 2000 don't require it. Regardless whether you use Windows 9.x or
the latest version of Windows, our simple
installation guide will take you through the installation steps, and
our partitioning
and formatting guide covers all the details you need to know for installing
our drive on Windows operating systems.
Please follow the advice in these guides. If you need additional help
or have questions, feel free to contact
our support center. |
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| Feature
Tool (v1.94) |
The Feature Tool allows you to control some of
the features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high performance ATA hard disk
drives and supports 48-bit addressing, so it will work with the new large
capacity drives. This version adds support for our latest drives. - Support for Travelstar EA models
- Support for Deskstar 7K400
- Support for Promise and SIL 3112 SATA Controllers
The Feature
Tool allows you to: |
- Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
- Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings to the:
- Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode), or
- Maximum performance level (Normal Seek Mode).
- Change the predefined capacity of the drive. This option can be used
in situations where there is a BIOS limitation and the drive is not
recognized. See the Users Guide for specific details.
- Switch the Ultra DMA mode
- Change Advanced Power Mode - allows you to change between the lowest
power consumption and the highest power consumption (maximum performance
level).
- Show Drive Temperature - shows the current drive temperature in Celsius
and Fahrenheit.
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| Download Windows
version (1838 KB) | Having
trouble creating the bootable diskette? |
| Download binary diskette image (non-Windows systems) (1475 KB) |
More information... |
- Feature Tool Users Guide - contains
instructions for creating the bootable diskette under Windows and Linux,
and information on how to use the program.
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| Optimize
your drive |
| Tools to optimize and customize our drives |
| Power Booster | See the Feature Tool listed above
for more tools. |
|
| Power Booster |
| This utility works with our Travelstar drives.
Power Booster is a utility for laptops that gives users direct control over
the Advanced Battery Life Extender power settings for our mobile disk drives.
Power Booster allows any computer with an ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive and
running Windows 95/98 to directly control advanced power management features
of the drive. Advanced Battery Life Extender is an advanced power savings
implementation and Power Booster is a user interface to it. Additional details
are provided on the download page. |
| Download Power Booster (156 KB) |
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| Productivity
tools for hard disk drive related businesses |
| Ultrastar/Deskstar/Travelstar Tools developed
specifically for resellers and OEM system integrators |
| DDD-SI |
| DDD-SI is an easy-to-use Windows software package
we developed for Ultrastar, Deskstar, and Travelstar system integrators.
This tool allows you to modify, optimize, initialize or test our industry
leading hard disk drives for integration. Single or multiple hard disk drives
need to be outside of their target System. Once DDD-SI is configured, you
can easily: |
- Optimize a disk drive
- Analyze / repair a disk drive
- Initialize a disk drive
- Assist with disk drive integration
- Provide production line support
- Provide information for remote assistance
|
 How to obtain a copy of DDD-SI |
| DDD-SI User's Guide |
| Note: If you see a blank page after clicking on the above PDF link, right-click on the link and select: "Save Target As..." Save the PDF file to a location of your choice, and open it directly. |
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| *PDF format requires the Adobe
Acrobat Reader«. |
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