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Essential Hard Drive Utilities Guide

The document provides information on various utilities that can be used for diagnosing, testing, and securely erasing hard drives. It lists and describes utilities from manufacturers like Hitachi, Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate that are compatible with their own drives. It also mentions third party utilities like HDD Regenerator for repairing bad sectors, Partition Magic and gParted for partitioning, and Darik's Boot and Nuke for securely erasing drives. Acronis products like Acronis True Image are recommended for drive backup.

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Essential Hard Drive Utilities Guide

The document provides information on various utilities that can be used for diagnosing, testing, and securely erasing hard drives. It lists and describes utilities from manufacturers like Hitachi, Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate that are compatible with their own drives. It also mentions third party utilities like HDD Regenerator for repairing bad sectors, Partition Magic and gParted for partitioning, and Darik's Boot and Nuke for securely erasing drives. Acronis products like Acronis True Image are recommended for drive backup.

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Drive Diagnostic Utilities chkdsk Built in utiilty for Windows 2000/XP. Start --> Run.

Type chkdsk /r for full sca n. Can also be run from recovery console. Not recmomended for diagnosing. Hitachi / IBM - DFT "Drive Fitness Test" [Link] Works with all manufacturers Western Digital "Data Lifeguard" [Link] Works with WD drives only Maxtor "Powermax" [Link] CRD Works with all manufacturers Fujitsu "FJDT" [Link] Works with fujitsu models only Samsung "hutil" [Link] Samsung "es-tool" (Successor to hutil above) [Link] Compatability unknown... Seagate "Seatools" [Link] Works with Seagate drives only Toshiba - N/A There are no tools available for Toshiba, but you may be able to use IBM or Maxt or's drive tools as well as other third party programs Other Useful Drive Utilities HDD Regenerator - Repair bad sectors Repairs most bad sectors by remagnetizing the disk surface without losing your d ata. Works independantly of the file system, making it compatible with all PCs, operating systems and hard drives... [Link] Active@Partition Recovery Recovers most deleted, lost or formatted partitions. [Link] Partition Magic Fast and easy partitioning, Supports all Windows and most Linux file systems. Gr eat for ignoring bad sectors and for advanced partitioning schemes. [Link] Ranish GPL/Freeware partitioning program for use with Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more. Not much on eye candy, but it works. :). [Link]

gParted GPL/Freeware partitioning program for use with Windows and Linux. Nice, intuitiv e interface and comes available as a bootable CD image.. [Link] Acronis Partition Expert Easy to use interface. Supports Windows and Linux partitions. [Link] Drive Backup Tools Symantec Norton Ghost Ghost 8.0 or less runs under DOS, but extremely reliable. Ghost 9.0 and 10 requi res Windows 2000 or XP. 9.0 & 10 are Windows-centric. Ghost 9+ supports full "ho t imaging" of system partitions while in Windows, but not incremental imaging. [Link] Acronis True Image Supports Windows and Linux file systems. Allows "hot imaging" of system partitio ns while in Windows, supporting full and incremental (fast) backups. TI 10 has b een rock solid for me -- Recommended. [Link] Drive Secure Erase Utilities Darik's Boot and Nuke Securley erases all data on your harddrives, beyond the point of possible recove ry. Use with care! Tip: remove harddrives you will not be erasing from the compu ter. [Link]

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