Downloads and Utilities
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Install or Optimize Your Drive Utilities for installing or optimizing Hitachi HDDs
Feature Tool - Change various ATA features.
Power Booster - Control advanced battery life extender power settings.
Disk Manager
Analyze, Monitor and Restore Your Drive Utilities for analyzing, monitoring and restoring Hitachi HDDs
Drive Fitness Test
Feature Tool
OGT Diagnostic Tool
SMART Defender
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are available through Hitachi GST's Partners First Program.
Feature Tool
Version 2.09
The Feature Tool is a DOS-bootable tool for changing various ATA features. It can modify certain features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high-performance ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing for new, large-capacity drives.
Downloads
Feature Tool User's GuideContains instructions for creating the bootable media under Windows and Linux, and information on how to use the program.
Diskette creator for Windows (1,691 K)Click here if having trouble creating bootable diskette
Binary diskette image (for non-Windows OS) (1,440 K)
CD image (2,598 K)Create a bootable CD for Windows, Linux and other operating systems (requires CD-RW drive and software).
Notes
Does not support Travelstar 8E, 10E, or C4Kxx series HDDs, or drives mounted in external enclosures.
Features in Version 2.09
Supports the latest Deskstar and Travelstar HDDs.
Enhances Serial ATA (SATA) support.
Enhances capacity clip function.
Changes ATA Drive Settings
Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
Change the drive automatic acoustic management settings. - Lowest acoustic emanation setting (quiet seek mode) or maximum performance level (normal seek mode).
Change the predefined capacity of the drive. - Used when BIOS limitation exists and the drive is not recognized.
Switch the Ultra DMA mode.
Change advanced power mode. - Switch between lowest and highest power consumption (maximum performance level).
Configure SATA interface. - Adjust maximum speed and enable/disable spread spectrum clocking.Warning! Switching your drive to support 3.0Gb/s, or enabling spread spectrum clocking and then using it, may render your drive unusable in a system that cannot support these functions. If in doubt, please contact your system manufacturer.
Shows Drive Temperature
Displays temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Disk Manager
Disk Manager by Ontrack is no longer available for download because Windows XP and 2000 operating systems do not require it. For more information, visit the Ontrack Data Recovery web site.
Windows 9.x users, consult our guides on simple installation and partitioning and formatting. If you need assistance, contact Support.

Drive Fitness Test
Version 4.11
The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (Note: other DFT restoration utilities may overwrite data.)
DownloadsTo run the DFT, you must download the appropriate creator or image and create a self-booting media.
You may create the media under Windows (using the Windows OS version) or Linux (using the binary image), but you must start your system with the DOS-bootable diskette to run DFT.
Drive Fitness Test User's Guide (426 K)Guide to using DFT
Diskette creator for Windows OS (2,130 K)Creates self-booting media to run DFT Read Me Having trouble creating the bootable diskette?
Binary diskette image for non-Windows OS (1,440 K)Creates self-booting media to run DFT Read Me
CD image (2,718 K)Creates bootable CD for Linux, Windows and other operating systems ( requires CD-RW drive and software).
Notes
Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73 and DK32XX users, do not use DFT — Use the OGT Diagnostic Tool.
Does not support Microdrive Digital Media products.
Supports all Travelstar HDDs, except 8E, 10E and C4K series.
Does not support external USB or Firewire attached drives.
Compatible only with x86-based processors.
Features in Version 4.11
New Products support.
ATAPI Drive(CD/DVD drives) is not scanned.
Supports Leading Drives
SCSI.
Serial ATA.
Parallel ATA.
IDE.
Analyzes Drive Fitness
Three modes of operation. - High confidence level quick test- Full media scan- Exerciser
Performs real-time analysis of your drive to quickly determine if problem exists.
Identifies system problems such as cable or temperatures.
Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track potential impacts to the drive operations (diskette version only).
Restores Drive Fitness
Erase-boot-sector utility (Use option: Erase Boot Sector).- Note: this utility overwrites customer data to allow repair of bad sectors.
Low-level format utility (Use option: Erase Disk).- Note: this utility overwrites customer data to allow repair of bad sectors.
Includes Utilities
Drive information.
SMART operations for supported hard disk drives.
Resources
Drive Fitness Test White Paper.
Drive Fitness Test Data Sheet.

OGT Diagnostic Tool
OGT Diagnostic Tool is a failure analysis tool for Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73 and DK32xx disk drives. For these drives, OGT Diagnostic Tool replaces the Drive Fitness Test.
Downloads
OGT Diagnostic Tool (3,985 K).
OGT Diagnostic Tool User's Guide.
Notes
Automatically performs necessary diagnostic testing and failure analysis.
Windows OS-compatible only.
Ontrack Data Advisor
Ontrack Data Advisor is a self-booting diagnostic software that determines data access problems.
Downloads
Ontrack download page - registration required.
Notes
Analyzes critical drive areas. - File systems- Boot sectors- Master boot record- Memory
Guides user through traditional or new remote data recovery services.

SMART Defender
SMART Defender is no longer available for download. Similar freeware and shareware programs are available online.

Power Booster
For use only with Travelstar disk drives. Use Power Booster to directly control advanced battery life extender power settings.
Downloads
Power Booster (156 K)
Notes
Windows OS-compatible only.
Requires ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive.
Additional productivity tools for OEMs, resellers and system integrators are available through Hitachi GST's Partners First Program.