Disk Diagnostic Utilities

File Managers

Hard drive manufacturer's tools

Data Recovery Utilities

Disk Diagnostic Utilities

(not from disk manufacturers)

File Managers

Hard drive manufacturer's tools

Fujitsu: DMA/66 Mode Disable Utility Utility which can disable Ultra/66 capability and revert back to Ultra/33 transfers Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	ver. 1.14 FREE
Fujitsu: Drive Erase Utility Application for any Fujitsu E-IDE disk drive. It erases all hard disk data and initialises it to '00' pattern. Use with caution! Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	Download Download FREE
Fujitsu: Fujitsu ATA Diagnostic Tool A diagnostic tool to help customers speedily verifiy whether their hard drive is operating correctly Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	ver. 6.20 ver. 6 FREE
Fujitsu: HandyDrive drivers Drivers for HandyDrive - USB connected hard disk for use with Windows 98/ME Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	Download FREE
Fujitsu: HDD Flash - Firmware Upgrade Utility A utility to upgrade model MPG3102AT-E and MPG3204AT-E 5400RPM ATA drives only Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	ver. 1.01 Download FREE
Fujitsu: SCSI Diagnostics SDIAG is a simple and reliable SCSI diagnostic tool developed by Fujitsu verifying the condition of your Fujitsu SCSI Hard Disk Drive Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	ver. 2.3 ver. 2.0 ver. 1.4 FREE
Fujitsu: UDMA Utility (for MPD, MPE, MPF series) The UDMA utility is designed to change the status of the Fujitsu's MPD, MPE, and MPF series hard disk drives to pre-set transfer rates for compatible operation Home page:www.fcpa.fujitsu.com	ver. 2.4 FREE
Fujitsu: UDMA Utility (for MPG series) The UDMA utility is designed to change the status of the Fujitsu's MPG series hard disk drives to pre-set transfer rates for compatible operation Home page:www.fcpa.fujitsu.com	ver. 2.45 FREE
Fujitsu: UltraATA Change Mode Utility A utility to change the UltraATA capability of the drive. Three batch files allow the mode setting for UDMA100, 66, and 33 Home page:www.fis.fujitsu.com	ver. 1.19 FREE
Hitachi (IBM): Disk Drive Diagnostics for System Integrators DDD-SI is an easy-to-use Windows software package for Ultrastar, Deskstar, and Travelstar system integrators. This tool allows you to modify, optimize, initialize or test Hitachi hard disk drives for integration. This update will not work unless you have DDD-SI installed on your system and registered Home page:www.hgst.com	upd. 5.60 FREE
Hitachi (IBM): Drive Fitness Test The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data Home page:www.hitachigst.com	ver. 4.00 image ver. 3.73 ISO image FREE
Hitachi (IBM): OGT Diagnostic Tool The OGT diagnostic tool is a failure analysis tool for Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73, and DK32XX products. Home page:www.hitachigst.com	ver. 7.01 FREE
Hitachi (IBM): Feature Tool The Feature Tool allows you to control some of the features of Deskstar and Travelstar ATA hard disk drives Home page:www.hitachigst.com	ver. 1.96 image ver. 1.94 FREE
Hitachi (IBM): SMART Defender SMART Defender is an easy to use Windows program that monitors SMART-capable IDE and SCSI hard disk drives. The program reduces the risk of system down time by assessing the reliability and predicting hard disk drive failures Home page:www.hitachigst.com	Download FREE
IBM: PowerBooster Power Booster is a utility and interface that allows direct control over advanced power settings, including Advanced Battery Life Extender, on an IBM ATA/ATAPI-4 (or above) mobile disk drive Home page:www.hitachigst.com	Download FREE
Maxtor (Quantum): Big Drive Enabler Big Drive Enabler is a one step executable that enables support for drives larger than 137 Gigabytes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and XP Service Pack 1 Home page:www.maxtor.com	ver. 1.0.3.1 FREE
Maxtor (Quantum): MaxBlast 3 ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility. Automatically identifies, partitions, and formats any Maxtor ATA hard drive Home page:www.maxtor.com	Windows DOS ISO image FREE
Maxtor (Quantum): PowerMax Utility designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on ATA (IDE) Maxtor and Quantum hard drives. These tests will determine hard drive integrity. Maxtor recommends the use of this utility for troubleshooting potential hard drive problems Home page:www.maxtor.com	ver. 4.09 FREE
Maxtor (Quantum): SCSIMax SCSIMax is a diagnostic utility for all Maxtor/Quantum SCSI hard disk drives supporting S.M.A.R.T. This test will determine hard drive integrity with a high degree of confidence Home page:www.maxtor.com	ver. 1.21 FREE
Samsung: Disk Manager Ontrack Disk Manger for Samsung harddrivers Home page:www.samsung.com	download FREE
Samsung: EnableBigLBA This utility enables support for drives larger than 128 GB in Windows 2000 SP3 and later Home page:www.samsung.com	download FREE
Samsung: SUTIL Utility for changing DMA mode and easing drives. Works with older Spinpoint V series (DMA66 'D' models) Home page:www.samsung.com	download FREE
Samsung: Shdiag Utility for testing drive's health. Works with older Spinpoint V series (DMA66 'D' models) Home page:www.samsung.com	download FREE
Samsung: HUTIL Utility replacing SUTIL and Shdiag for newer Spinpoint drives. Diagnoses drive and allows to change maximal size, DMA mode and erase disks. Home page:www.samsung.com	download ver. 1.21 FREE
Seagate Disk Manager This DOS based floppy edition is for installing drives in new system builds. It was replaced by Disk Wizard Home page:www.seagate.com	ver. 9.56a FREE
Seagate Disk Wizard 2003 A 32-bit application for adding a second drive in a system already running a Windows OS. Includes DiscWizard Starter Edition and SeaTools Desktop Home page:www.seagate.com	ver. 4.09.05 FREE
Seagate Disk Wizard Online A browser based application that will check ATA, SATA, and SCSI hard drives without having to turn off the system. Works with IE and Netscape under Windows OS Home page:www.seagate.com	Run FREE
Seagate Disk Wizard Starter Edition This DOS based floppy edition is for installing drives in new system builds. Home page:www.seagate.com	DOS ISO image FREE
Seagate Reg48bitLBA An utility for Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP SP1 for checking if EnableBigLBA registry setting is correctly set. This setting is required if you want to use disc drives larger than 137 GB Home page:www.seagate.com	Download FREE
Seagate SeaTools Desktop Disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most Seagate hard drive issues. Desktop edition works with most ATA, SATA, or SCSI drives in desktop systems and has a 98% accuracy rate Home page:www.seagate.com	ver. 3.00.07 ISO image FREE
Seagate SeaTools Enterprise Disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most Seagate hard drive issues. Supports SCSI or Fibre Channel drives in servers and workstations. Tests multiple drives simultaneously and sequentially. This version does not test ATA or SATA. Versions for Windows and Linux! Home page:www.seagate.com	Windows Linux CLI Linux GFX FREE
Seagate SeaTools Online A browser based application that will check ATA, SATA, and SCSI hard drives without having to turn off the system Home page:www.seagate.com	Run FREE
Seagate Ultra ATA Mode Switching Utility utility to select or to verify a compatible Ultra ATA mode for your drive and system Home page:www.seagate.com	Download FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): ASPI Menu Application that uses ASPI to provide a generic interactive command interface to any SCSI hard drive. In addition to providing interactive commands to a SCSI hard drive, this tool provides advanced scripting features for writing functions such as testing or applying updates to SCSI devices Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 1.16 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): BIOS Check Reports number of drives physically detected, number of drives accessed by the BIOS and additional drive table information Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 10.0 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows Windows version of the Data Lifeguard Diagnostics utility. The utility can perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on a Western Digital FireWire, EIDE, or USB drive Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 1.0 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): Data Lifeguard Tools Test WD drives for problems and errors, fix certain errors, scan for bad sectors and provide drive information (serial and model number) Home page:support.wdc.com	Windows DOS FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): DLG Diagnostic Diagnostics utility allows you to test the drive, print results for last drive tested, repair errors found during the Test Drive option and write zeros to the drive (low-level format) Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 11 ver. 5.04c ver. 2.8 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): Ultra ATA Manager Utility is used to enable or disable the Ultra ATA 33/66/100 capability on WD EIDE drives that support this feature Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 1.0 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): WD Scan Application that uses ASPI to provide a graphic representation of peripherals connected to the SCSI architecture Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 1.0 FREE
Western Digital (Caviar): WD SCSI Workbench Application that uses ASPI to provide support and utility functions for WD SCSI hard drives. It can create dump files that contain support and log data, format drives, short stroke drives, copy one drive to another, perform read and write/read qualification testing, generate defect data lists, and convert between logical and physical addressing schemes Home page:support.wdc.com	ver. 1.4 FREE