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An experimental program to work with HDD


Screenshot of Victoria HDD Utility 4.3

Victoria HDD Utility 4.3


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Victoria HDD Utility


Supported languages: English
Supported OS: WinXP / Windows2000 / Windows2003 / Win98 / WinME
Price: Free
Victoria 4.x for Windows - is a program designed to assess performance, testing and minor repair HDD IDE drive and SATA. Its ideology and the possibility of closer to those of the previous utility Victoria 3.x for DOS. Win32 version is designed primarily for repairmen HDD in stationary conditions, as requires a Windows computer, and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However, compared with the DOS-programs, the utility for Windows provides the following benefits:

- There is no CPU load at idle;
- More user-friendly interface;
- Multi-tasking;

The program is multithreaded Win32 application, and is designed for the OS family of Windows NT (2000, XP). In Windows 9x and Me, some functions may work slower.
The program is written for hardware-software Victoria, developed by the author for the professional HDD repair and data recovery. Free version differs in its lack of technological tools, some useful functions are disabled. Work with the store is at the level of input-output ports.
System Requirements - CPU not less than P3, from 1300 MHz (the higher - the better), screen resolution of 800 * 600 1280 * 1024, Microsoft Windows XP. In the card surface with disabled system requirements are sharply reduced.
When you first start under Win NTprogramma automatically install the system driver porttalk.sys, with the help of which will be made available to the ports under study HDD. Rebooting the system is not required. When you run under Win 9x no driver installed, and access to ports is achieved by disabling the control panel Windows appropriate IDE controller.
The program can also access additional ATA controller. Pressing the PCI scan list will appear in the system controller. When you click on each of them - the port addresses are automatically raskladvayutsya in the input window port addresses.
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Keywords: ATA-8, Host Protected Area, Acoustic Management, S.M.A.R.T. Monitor, SMART-drive, SMART, LBA, processor-cropping, Celeron, Duron, partition table, hard drive, ATA-7, nonvolatile memory
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