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Install or Optimize Your Drive
Utilities for installing or optimizing Hitachi HDDs
Analyze, Monitor and Restore Your Drive
Utilities for analyzing, monitoring and restoring Hitachi HDDs
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are
available through Hitachi GST's Partners
First Program.
Feature Tool
Version 2.11
The Feature Tool is a DOS-bootable tool for changing various ATA features.
It can modify certain features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high-performance
ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing for new, large-capacity
drives.
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Notes
- Does not support Travelstar 8E, 10E, or C4Kxx series HDDs, or drives
mounted in external enclosures.
Features in Version 2.10
- Supports the latest Deskstar and Travelstar HDDs.
- Enhances Serial ATA (SATA) support.
- Enhances capacity clip function.
Changes ATA Drive Settings
- Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
- Change the drive automatic acoustic management settings. - Lowest
acoustic emanation setting (quiet seek mode) or maximum performance level
(normal seek mode).
- Change the predefined capacity of the drive.
- Used when BIOS limitation exists and the drive is not recognized.
- Switch the Ultra DMA mode.
- Change advanced power mode.
- Switch between lowest and highest power consumption (maximum performance
level).
- Configure SATA interface.
- Adjust maximum speed and enable/disable spread spectrum clocking.
Warning! Switching your drive to support 3.0Gb/s, or enabling
spread spectrum clocking and then using it, may render your drive unusable
in a system that cannot support these functions. If in doubt, please
contact your system manufacturer.
Shows Drive Temperature
- Displays temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Disk Manager
Disk Manager by Ontrack is no longer available for download because Windows
XP and 2000 operating systems do not require it. For more information, visit
the Ontrack Data Recovery web site.
Windows 9.x users, consult our guides on simple
installation and partitioning
and formatting. If you need assistance, contact Support.
Drive Fitness Test
Version 4.14
The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA
drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting
customer data. (Note: other DFT restoration utilities may overwrite data.)
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To run the DFT, you must download the appropriate creator or image and create a
self-booting media.
You may create the media under Windows (using the Windows OS version) or
Linux (using the binary image), but you must start your system with the
DOS-bootable diskette to run DFT.
Notes
- Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73 and DK32XX users, do not use DFT
— Use the OGT
Diagnostic Tool.
- Does not support Microdrive Digital Media products.
- Supports all Travelstar HDDs, except 8E, 10E and C4K series.
- Does not support Endurastar products.
- Does not support external USB or Firewire attached drives.
- Compatible only with x86-based processors.
- Does not support the PC which loads Intel ICH9M chipset.
HitachiGST are working to fix this situation.
Features in Version 4.14
- New Products support.
- ATAPI Drive(CD/DVD drives) is not scanned.
Supports Leading Drives
- SCSI.
- Serial ATA.
- Parallel ATA.
- IDE.
Analyzes Drive Fitness
- Three modes of operation.
- High confidence level quick test
- Full media scan
- Exerciser
- Performs real-time analysis of your drive to quickly determine if problem
exists.
- Identifies system problems such as cable or temperatures.
- Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track potential
impacts to the drive operations (diskette version only).
Restores Drive Fitness
- Erase-boot-sector utility (Use option: Erase Boot Sector).
- Note: this utility overwrites customer data to allow repair of bad
sectors.
- Low-level format utility (Use option: Erase Disk).
- Note: this utility overwrites customer data to allow repair of bad
sectors.
Includes Utilities
- Drive information.
- SMART operations for supported hard disk drives.
Resources
OGT Diagnostic Tool
OGT Diagnostic Tool is a failure analysis tool for Ultrastar 10K300,
Ultrastar 15K73 and DK32xx disk drives. For these drives, OGT Diagnostic Tool
replaces the Drive Fitness Test.
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Notes
- Automatically performs necessary diagnostic testing and failure
analysis.
- Windows OS-compatible only.
Ontrack Data Advisor
Ontrack Data Advisor is a self-booting diagnostic software that determines
data access problems.
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Notes
- Analyzes critical drive areas.
- File systems
- Boot sectors
- Master boot record
- Memory
- Guides user through traditional or new remote data recovery services.
SMART Defender
SMART Defender is no longer available for download. Similar freeware and
shareware programs are available online.
Power Booster
For use only with Travelstar disk drives. Use Power Booster to directly
control advanced battery life extender power settings.
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Notes
- Windows OS-compatible only.
- Requires ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive.
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are
available through Hitachi GST's Partners
First Program.
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