MHDD 4.6

MHDD - Application for low-level HDD diagnostic

MHDD is the most popular freeware application for low-level HDD diagnostics.


MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).


This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform Low-level format, bad sector repair, different tests and tens of other functions.




Requirements:


Platform:


- Intel Pentium or higher CPU

- 4 megabytes of RAM

- DR-DOS, MSDOS version 6.22 and higher

- Any boot device (USB, CDROM, FDD, HDD)

- A keyboard


IDE/SATA Controllers:


- Any integrated into motherboard north bridge (addresses: 0x1Fx for primary channel, 0x17x for secondary channel)

- PCI UDMA boards (detected automatically): HPT, Silicon Image, Promise, ITE, ATI and so on. Even some RAID boards are supported. In this case MHDD works with each physical drive separately

- UDMA/RAID controllers integrated into motherboard as additional chip


Hard disk drives:


- Any IDE or Serial-ATA drive with size bigger than 600Mbytes, in other words, LBA mode is supported in full. This is because I have removed whole CHS code since version 2.9

- Any IDE or Serial-ATA drive with size lower than 8388607 TBytes, in other words, LBA48 mode is supported in full

- Any SCSI drive with sector size 512-528 bytes

- Any SCSI removable media such as tape, CDROM. Maximum sector size for such devices is 4096 bytes

MHDD 4.6 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform. MHDD is provided as a free download for all software users (Freeware).