HDD Victoria - 'is \u200b\u200ba useful utility designed to work with the hard drive of a personal computer at all levels - each cluster testing, maintenance, rehabilitation completely deleted files from hard disk interface SATA, IDE.
It should be noted that the two versions of the program will be used:
- Version 3.35 to work with the external media.
- Version 4.46 with a windose.
Installing the HDD Victoria
First you need to download the image of the program from the official site. Then you need to burn it to a removable media.
We use the UltraISO.
Run the image using the program. Now click Bootstrapping - burn the image to your hard drive - burn.
Download HDD Victoria
Now we need to boot from a flash drive in the BIOS. To do this, restart your PC and enter the BIOS settings (on each motherboard different keys). Then, go to the second tab at the top. And go to the point of Boot sequence, in this tab, set the boot from the CD / DVD drive, if the board supports booting from USB, select USB-HDD.
After the change, press f10 key to save the settings. After that, the PC restarts and opens the window.
Start-up and preparatory phase HDD Victoria test
After the reboot, the startup window, select the Victoria program. Most likely, when you start the program for the first time, you have to choose the hard drive test - press key P.
Important! In the entire hard drive, burn DRSC, DRDY and possibly INX.
In the drop down menu, select the last port and press Enter. Will begin the search for external controllers and HDD.
Important! Determined only by the present, and whole HDD set to MASTER, the other systems miss.
Ports found by the program will have its own number. You will need to choose from.
HDD Victoria Check for errors and problems
Hard disk drive test, you must press the F4 key. This will open a menu in which you need to put "linear reading" and just below the "Ignore bad sectors." The selection is made using the space bar or the left, right arrows.
Next again and press F4 to start scanning. Now we can only wait. By pressing F1 will display a list of commands.
Testing interface HDD Victoria
What is the essence? This function cyclically writes the template data in the hard disk buffer memory, and then reads them from the hard drive and compares with recorded. Then measured the speed of reading.
Important! To obtain reliable data, checks must be held for a long time.
To exit the program, restart your computer.
Checking the program HDD Victoria 4.46b with windose
Download and unpack in convenient directory and run you.
Structure of the program
- Tab SMART.
- On the right side, at the top, you will see a list of disks, the program detected.
- On the left side contains the information about a specific drive.
- At the bottom you will see a course of action.
- Go to the SMART tab, then to the test. To begin testing you have to press Start and Passp.
- Below, you will see the progress of the scan and found an error that can be corrected.
Carefully use the Victoria program. As it is quite a powerful tool and it can hurt.