This program is used to diagnose the disk when the Samsung hard disk is suspected to have failures. Run Shdiag.exe from Dos and follow the instructions. (Size: 68 KB)

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. (Size: 711 KB)

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. (Size: 540 KB)

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. (Size: 1169 KB)

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). (Size: 36 KB)

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

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. (Size: 59 KB)

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. (Size: 505 KB)

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.

(Size: 476 KB)

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. (Size: 52 KB)