Karamjit Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD and SCSI/USB devices. HDAT2 runs on a bootable floppy disk or CD/DVD or USB drive. The main function of HDAT2 is testing and repair (to regenerate) bad sectors for detected devices. With it, you can read/find/check items (MBR, boot, directories, etc.) of file system and check/remove (regenerate) bad sectors records, flags in FAT table. HDAT2 features detection of ATA/ATAPI/SATA devices with on-board and add-on controllers, detection of devices on AHCI and some RAID controllers, detection of USB devices via USB ASPI driver or BIOS (if supported), ability to test and repair device for bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T. functions for ATA/SATA and SCSI drives and a lot more. Download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Looks like a nice free tool, but does not seem to work on 64-bit systems. Restricted to 32-bit ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddoxx Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 It's not a windows application, you need to boot it from a pen or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karamjit Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 NEWS: - added detection of NVMe devices; tested NVMe devices: SK hynix BC501 HFM256GDJTNG-8310A WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-256G-1006 (SanDisk) Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB Samsung MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1 Intel NVMe SSDPEKKF256G86 - not implemented/tested for NVMe devices: - change features - directives support - number of active namespaces limited to 256 - test VERIFY (for NVMe 1.4 only) - detection of ACPI is for accessing PCIe extended configuration space (4 KB per slot) beyond PCI only; disabling detection of ACPI has no effect on program functions, it means you can disable it - simple detection of SMR devices see Device data menu - Device data and Magnetic recording - for dump view added 128-bit word - new three command line parameters (see HDAT2 /?): /x=10 disable detect messages except errors (not allowed with /P) /x=11 set test mode 'BLOCK MODE' (default 'SECTOR MODE') /x=12 disable test log (default 'FILE') - in HDAT2DEM.BIX added record for NVMe SK hynix FIXES: - for demo writing upper line - improved processing and catching access violation errors - disabled INT 13h Read Identify due not support in BIOS and interrupt stops responding (too many hangs) - in case that SET MAX reads 0 sectors in AHCI mode is disabled settings; try the same in IDE/ATA legacy mode (hdat2 /d=12) - setting sectors count for 'Create UNC sectors' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arismfg Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Regenerate bad sectors? Is there really any software on earth that can fix bad drive sectors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddoxx Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Logical, yes, physical, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phen0men4 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 The question is not if a hard drive gets problems, but rather when it happens? Read this.. Bad sector remapping & Spare sector pools . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 2 hours ago, arismfg said: Regenerate bad sectors? Is there really any software on earth that can fix bad drive sectors? Yes, but only to be able to read data from bad sectors (for data recovery only). One of them and well known is HDD Regenerator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvidal Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 On 5/2/2020 at 2:37 PM, arismfg said: Regenerate bad sectors? Is there really any software on earth that can fix bad drive sectors? yes, HDD Regenerator does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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