# Many PC users recognize the potential threat of dataloss caused by
virusses and take appropriate actions for protecting themselves against
virus damage. Not many know however that 'only' about 7% of all dataloss is
caused by virus damage while hard ware damage is responsible for 44% of all
dataloss!*
Now that you know, don't you think it's about time you start keeping an eye
on your hard drive's health?
Use HD Workbench to:
# Monitor your hard disk's health using 'Self Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology' (S.M.A.R.T.)
S.M.A.R.T. is an early warning system that can warn you when your hard disk
is about to fail.** The early warning allows you to migrate your data to a
known to be good disk.
# Take proactive actions by scanning your disk on a regular basis. HD
Workbench allows you to run quick tests, full read-only tests and full
read/write tests. The full tests verify the entire disk's surface.
The read/write surface scan is non destructive, there is however one
exception: In case 'bad' areas are detected HD Workbench will try to
persuade the hard disk's internal error management to replace the bad areas
with sectors from the spare pool. Data within the bad areas is lost.
# Use HD Workbench to 'evacuate' data from a potentially failing disk to a
'known to be good disk' by creating a sector by sector copy (including the
MBR, partition tables and boot sectors), or by writing the data to a raw
disk image file.***
A raw image file is in fact a sector-by-sector disk copy stored in the file
in plain (that is, no compression and no skipped sectors)
HD Workbench features:
Monitor overall SMART status and the status of individual SMART
attributes
Perform read-only or read/write surface scans
Reclaim bad sectors
Clone disks sector by sector
Create raw image files
Mount raw image files
Obtain hard disk temperature
MBR backup/restore
Boot sector backup/restore
FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file system support
Image/Restore sectors from/to a file
Easy integration to the Windows boot menu and safe mode environment
Requirements:
Windows 2000 or XP
SMART capable IDE/ATA hard disk
Administrative rights
See
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuur..._Workbench.htm for more info.
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http://www.diydatarecovery.nl
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Please include previous correspondence!
DiskPatch - MBR, Partition, boot sector repair and recovery.
iRecover - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS data recovery.
MBRtool - Freeware MBR backup and restore.
CHK-Mate - automated CHK file analysis & recovery
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