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- Price: Free to try $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 10, 2004
- Total Downloads: 81,541
- Downloads last week: 51
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 8 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Offering a variety of features for those who need to do maintenance on their hard drives, HD Workbench does an adequate job, but it's definitely not for beginners. The interface is minimal, providing little idea on the ramifications of selecting a task. Using SMART information, which is reported by the hard drive, a variety of data points are available, including the manufacturer, number of sectors, and the internal temperature. For those whose hard drives are about to fail, customizable disk imaging and disk-to-disk-copying features are available. The help file is more than adequate to answer most questions, but a powerful tool such as HD Workbench should be handled only by those who are comfortable working under the hard-drive hood.Publisher's description
From DIY Datarecovery :HD Workbench is a Windows 2000/XP utility that can be used to examine your disk's health, utilizing SMART and reading and writing disk-surface tests. Data can be evacuated from potentially failing disks by making an exact sector-by-sector clone of the failing drive. Individual volumes can be backed up to raw image files, and the MBR and individual boot sectors can be backed up.
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- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 8 votes
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: HD Workbench 1.1.31
Summary: I dislike this program. It could be good -- but the author(s) should really try to take their time before putting out a program like this. My problems:
(1) Does not support RAID. At all. It doesn't even have error checking for RAID. Whe... read more >> -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: HD Workbench 1.1.31
Summary: I downloaded this software to check it out. I first ran the quick test. Then I tried the "Read only" test. After I tried the "read/write" test, I attempted to open "Solitair". I recieved an error stating the command could not be completed. I assumed... read more >>
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Version: HD Workbench 1.1.31
Cons: This software shuns most conventions around 'good user design', and just assumes you already know what its all about. Doesn't even use the mapped drive letters when identifying drives - instead using 'drive 1, drive 2, drive 3' etc. When I used it to test my dodgy hard drive (completely blank so no actual data to check), it froze. Also seems to place a massive load on the CPU. Not worth the download unless you are out of options and want to roll the dice!
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Version: HD Workbench 1.1.31
Pros: I used it to test my drive
Cons: the interface, reports and messages are remenant of windows 95.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: HD Workbench 1.1.31
Summary: I used this to create images of a few drives I was working on. The images were created perfectly, but when I attempted to restore the images to the same drives after setting up a RAID array, I received runtime errors and crashes. It took me 19 hou... read more >>
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