ES Tool (The Drive Diagnostic Utility) is made with the aim of testing a Samsung hard disk drive while it is installed inside a PC, regardless of the status of user's operating system. In fact of the drives returned to Samsung, a large percentage are NTF("No Trouble Found") after testing. So it is strongly recommended to test the drive if it is truly defective by a few fundamental troubleshooting of ES Tool first, to avoid user's unnecessary effort and inconvenience of replacing a good drive. This tool is useful to do Drive Diagnostic, Automatic Acoustic Management, Enable/Disable SMART etc.
(Download Size: 711 KB)

ESTool.zip

The Drive Diagnostic Utility Hutil is made with the aim of testing a Samsung hard disk drive while it is installed inside a PC, regardless of the status of user's operating system. In fact of the drives returned to Samsung, a large percentage are NTF("No Trouble Found") after testing. So it is strongly recommended to test the drive if it is truly defective by a few fundamental troubleshooting of Hutil first, to avoid user's unnecessary effort and inconvenience of replacing a good drive.
(Download Size: 540 KB)

Hutil.zip

SeaTools for DOS tests SATA or ATA drives. It can test a Seagate or Maxtor Parallel ATA (PATA and IDE) and Serial ATA (SATA) interface hard drive. Because the software boots to its own operating system you can test your drive regardless of the OS installed on it. You can even test a new or completely blank drive.
(Download Size: 1169 KB)

SeaToolsDos.zip

Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer. This program allows to anticipate the failure of a hard disk drive with sufficient notice to allow a user to back up data prior to a drive's failure. Unlike other similar utilities, the program supports drives using external UDMA/SATA/RAID controllers (HPT/Promise/FastTrack).
(Download Size: 36 KB)

SmartUDM.zip

Toshiba hard drive diagnostic utility (ToshDiag.exe) can test a toshiba hard drive for defects.
(Download Size: 64 KB)

ToshibaDiagnostic.zip

Victoria is a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. This is a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility. It supports IDE and SATA drives. Victoria has a lot of useful features, including: full HDD information, disk image creation, 9 disk tests, surface scan, low-level format, Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM), S.M.A.R.T. information, ability to change disk size, etc. Victoria 3.33 is an English version and 3.52 is a newer but Russian version.
(Download Size: 59 KB)

VictoriaDos.zip

Universal program for testing storage devices. Being a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility, it has the same functionality as its counterpart for DOS. But it also have some benefits, like: low CPU load, more convenient user interface, multitasking and multithreading.
(Download Size: 505 KB)

VictoriaForWindows.zip

ViVARD is powerful and simple program for low-level HDD diagnostics. Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI. Big drives (LBA-48) are supported.

Features:

• Surface test. Program allows testing disk drive surface.
• Surface test with remap. Scanning drive with replacement of defects from reserve area.
• Erasing sectors or whole drive. Fast easing sectors or whole drive in mode UDMA (will clear all partitions, MBR, and all user data). The program deletes data from a hard disk drive completely, allowing its user to be sure that if the drive is sold or passed on the next owner will not be able to recover any data previously stored there.
• The program allows viewing of SMART-attributes.
• Record of the report on a current hard drive condition.

(Download Size: 476 KB)

Vivard.zip

Restore/Erases the drive back to a factory condition. This program has options to Read Verify and Write the entire drive. It is used to scan the drive for errors and to reinitialize drives.
(Download Size: 52 KB)

WDClear.zip

To perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on most WD drives. This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.
(Download Size: 535 KB)

WinDlg.zip