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Analyze, Monitor and Restore Your Drive
Utilities for analyzing, monitoring and restoring HGST HDDs
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are available through HGST's Partners First Program.
WinDFT is a utility that will quickly test your HGST internal and external hard disk drives as well as all single drive G-Technology products. WinDFT will perform read tests without overwriting customer data. WinDFT also has additional utilities if you need to wipe the disk clean of data.
Most modern operating systems have been designed to work efficiently with Advanced Format drives. For optimum performance, it is important to ensure that the drive is partitioned correctly and that data is written in 4K blocks by both the operating system, and the application. Modern operating systems handle this automatically. When using Advanced Format drives in legacy environments, special tools may be required to optimize read/write performance and keep the data sectors aligned. Users who have created a misaligned partition may download the Windows utility below to correct this condition by re-aligning the partition.
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This tool is compatible with Windows operating systems.
For more information about Advanced Format Drives, please read the Advanced Format Technology Brief
For best performance, it is recommended that the hard drive be partitioned correctly upon first use, by using either a modern operating system or Advanced Format-aware partitioning software. Several third-party software options are listed on the last page of the Advanced Format Technology Brief.
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are available through HGST's Partners First Program.
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