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In Windows, the user can use the tool like ATATool to create a DCO. The user can set DCO to 100GB on hard drive 1: ATATOOL /SETDCO:100GB \\.\PhysicalDrive1 The user can remove DCO of 100GB on hard drive 1: ATATOOL /RESTOREDCO:100GB \\.\PhysicalDrive1 These commands can cause data loss or worse if they exeute this command that contains data. [6]
On Windows Vista and later it requires an elevated-privileges command prompt (see User Account Control). The target drive must be connected to a physical disk controller. The software will not work when using a hard drive through an external connection like USB or any external hard drive. Display detected Hard Drives: ATATOOL /LIST
In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel DOS version was released in different formats on bootable pen drive, CD, floppy. Usable when no operating system installed (or if the system is not bootable otherwise) to detect and display temperature, health status of IDE, SATA hard disk drives and with limited AHCI controller support.
Some vendor-specific external drive enclosures (e.g. Maxtor, owned by Seagate since 2006) are known to use HPA to limit the capacity of unknown replacement hard drives installed into the enclosure. When this occurs, the drive may appear to be limited in size (e.g. 128 GB), which can look like a BIOS or dynamic drive overlay (DDO) problem.
Fixed drives USB, eSATA and removable drives RAID support [a] Shows S.M.A.R.T. attributes Hard drive self-testing Notification Notes AIDA64: Windows: Trialware [1] GUI IDE(PATA), SATA, NVMe eSATA, USB Some RAID controllers Yes No Monitoring only available in the Business Edition [2]
Windows 11 is the latest major release of the Windows NT operating system and the successor of Windows 10. Some features of the operating system were removed in comparison to Windows 10, and further changes in older features have occurred within subsequent feature updates to Windows 11. Following is a list of these.
On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk). The Windows Server version of CHKDSK is RAID-aware and can fully recover data in bad sectors of a disk in a RAID-1 or RAID-5 array if other disks in the set are intact. [11]
Windows Vista: Microsoft Drive Optimizer: Rearranges files stored on a hard disk to occupy contiguous storage locations in order to optimize computer performance dfrgui.exe: Windows 95, Windows 2000: Event Viewer: Lets administrators and users view the event logs on a local or remote machine eventvwr.msc: Windows NT 3.1: Resource Monitor