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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.

 


Drive Fitness Test

Version 4.16

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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Has your computer ever crashed or failed to boot up, causing you to suspect that your hard drive might be broken? Have you ever dropped your notebook computer, only to wonder whether your hard drive would still function? If so, you can probably remember the anxiety of thinking that all the data and software stored on the hard drive might possibly be lost.

Experiencing a potential hard drive failure can be one of the most disruptive computer problems users might ever face. Even though the hardware can be replaced, the data and software on it might be irreplaceable. We have found that, in many problem situations where hard drive replacement occurs, the replacement could have been avoided. That's because most hard drives returned by customers are not actually damaged-meaning that the problem was caused by something other than a hard drive malfunction.

To help users quickly determine whether or not a hard drive is really malfunctioning, Drive Fitness Test (DFT) — part of the drive fitness technologies -- uses a PC-based program that accesses special hard drive microcode, enabling users to diagnose proper drive operation.

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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 4.15

  • New Products support.

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.

 

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Feature Tool

Version 2.15

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.

  • Does not support the PC which loads Intel ICH9M chipset. HitachiGST are working to fix this situation.

Features in Version 2.13

  • Removed the function of acoustic management.

Changes ATA Drive Settings

  • Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.

  • 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.



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.

 

Having trouble creating a bootable diskette?

The Windows version of the Drive Fitness Test (DFT) bootable diskette and the Feature Tool bootable diskette are created using InstallShield®.  If you receive errors when you are trying to create the bootable diskette, the following articles in the InstallShield®  Website Knowledge Base may help you resolve the problem:
Q104985 - INFO: Troubleshooting Initialization Errors
Q105416 - INFO: Troubleshooting General Installation Errors – End User Version

 


 

Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are available through Hitachi GST's Partners First Program.