This application is designed to recover damaged hard drives and other storage media. In the article, we will look at what the software “can do”, highlight its strengths and weaknesses, and also offer to download the latest version of HDD Regenerator 2017 from the official website for free.

Attention: there is no Russian version of the program, all attempts to find it will lead to downloading pirated software infected with malicious code.

What is the program for?

Let's see how the HDD Regenerator disk treatment program works and why it is needed at all. The fact is that a hard drive, hard drive or “screw” is one and the same device. It consists of a metal sealed housing in which a spindle (axis) rotates with one or more aluminum plates put on it in the form of disks.


It is on the surface of these disks, or rather, on the magnetic layer deposited on top, that information is recorded. Sometimes, due to old age or factory defects, some places of the magnetic layer lose their original properties and their magnetization. As a result, information is lost in such areas, and recording becomes impossible.

The essence of HDD Regenerator is to find such areas, and transfer their coordinates to the Windows operating system, so that the latter can carry out the reassigned sectors on the hard disk, therefore, its “treatment”. That is, now the bytes of information will be written bypassing the “broken” sectors, as a result of which the volume of the disk will slightly decrease, but the number of errors will also be greatly reduced.

You can also use HDD Regenerator to diagnose digital media, for example, you can repair USB flash drives, memory cards, etc.

Video instruction

You can also see everything written in the article in the video that our author recorded for you. We recommend that you watch the video to the end and only then start downloading the software.

Installing HDD Regenerator

Consider installing HDD Regenerator on your computer or laptop. You can “treat” unstable sectors on your hard drive both from under Windows and through the PreOS mode, which allows you to perform a deeper analysis and 100% fix all failures. We will consider all existing options below in the form of detailed step-by-step instructions with pictures.

First of all, we will have to install the application on a computer or laptop. Then you can either start scanning, or write the program to external media and boot from it. However, first things first.

  1. Download the program using the button below and run the resulting installer.


  1. We are waiting for the preparation of the application for installation.


  1. The installation is started by clicking on the button labeled Next.


  1. We accept the application license by checking the box marked with the number 1 and clicking the Next button.


  1. If necessary, change the installation path, then proceed to the next step.


  1. We are waiting for the end of copying all the program files in their places.


  1. If the Launch the program checkbox is checked, then after clicking the Finish button, the application will start on its own.


This completes the installation of HDD Regenerator on a PC, and we are moving on to analyzing the options for launching it.

How to use HDD Regenerator

You can work with this software from Windows itself, as well as by downloading and installing it on an external drive. The second option is much more preferable, since often when the OS is running, the disk is busy with some processes and HDD Regenerator cannot access it.

The application is able to work not only with hard drives, but also memory cards, flash drives and even SSD drives.

Starting from the Windows desktop

The first and easiest way to repair a damaged disk is to run HDD Regenerator while Windows is running. We will now consider it:

  1. Press the Regeneration button of the main menu and select the item circled in red.


  1. Sometimes a warning may appear stating that your hard drive connection is using a non-SATA port. If so, you can try rebooting into the BIOS and select the desired interface there.

  1. Access to the functionality of HDD Regenerator can also be obtained from the system tray of the operating system. To do this, simply right-click on the program icon.


  1. This is what the context menu looks like. It contains a number of functions:
    1. Launching the shell of our application.
    2. Display S.M.A.R.T information.
    3. Turn notifications on and off.
    4. Exit from the program.


This is how the S.M.A.R.T data of our hard drive looks like.


This is how application notifications are configured.


  1. To purchase the application, open the Full Version menu and select the Serial Number item.


The program is paid, but the functions provided by the free version are enough for the average user, so it is not necessary to buy HDD Regenerator.

  1. We continue our instructions. First, select the disk with which we will work.


  1. Select one of the modes by entering the desired number and pressing Enter:


  1. Here we simply enter the number 1 and press Enter.


  1. We are waiting for the process to complete. The yellow rectangle displays the temperature of the hard drive, if, of course, it is equipped with an appropriate sensor.


Attention: when the program is running in any mode, no user data will be affected.

  1. If we press Esc , the process will pause and we will see the pause menu. Here are the possibilities:
    1. continue scanning;
    2. showing statistics;
    3. change of addresses of the beginning/end of the check;
    4. change of operating mode;
    5. exit from the program.


  1. The progress of verification and corrections is displayed as a white bar on a black square. In our case, no failures were found.


Sometimes this mode of operation of HDD Regenerator does not work due to the fact that the disk is busy with some process. The option described below does not lead to such difficulties.

Using a flash drive

Let's look at how to write our application to external media and start scanning from it.

  1. Open HDD Regenerator, go to the Regeneration menu and select the option to create a bootable flash drive.


  1. We make sure that the desired media is displayed in the list, select it and click OK.


  1. We are warned that all data from the flash drive will be deleted. We agree and click OK.

  1. You will then be notified that the process has completed successfully. Click on NO.

  1. We restart the computer, then we start it from our boot drive and, by indicating the number, select the disk we need.

You can read about how to configure BIOS and start the PC from a removable device in the instructions from your computer.


  1. We select the verification mode, exactly as we did from under Windows. In our case, this is the number 2.


  1. We start fixing "broken" sectors by entering the number 1 and pressing Enter.


  1. We start disk recovery using HDD Regenerator by entering the number 1.


  1. The process of scanning and fixing the HDD at the same time will begin. We are waiting for its completion.


  1. This is what the end result looks like. If you have bad sectors found and you see a red inscription "delays detected", the program will mark them and mark them as problematic. In our case, everything is clean.


After that, the PC can be restarted.

Bootable CD/DVD

In the same way, you can create bootable optical media. It can be a CD or DVD. We select the desired menu item and, similarly to the case described above, write the data to disk.


Advantages and disadvantages

To complete the picture, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the positive and negative features of the program.

Advantages:

  • ease of use;
  • efficiency;
  • the ability to run from external media;
  • good performance;

Flaws:

  • absence of the Russian language.

Thanks to our article, you can easily learn how to work with the program, and Russian localization is simply not needed.

System requirements

For the correct operation of our application, you need a computer or laptop with the following minimum parameters:

  • 1 GHz CPU;
  • From 512 MB of RAM;
  • Screen resolution from 640x480;
  • The video card does not affect the work.

You can run the software on weaker configurations, however, there will be no guarantee of correct operation in this case.

Program analogues

You can also restore the HDD surface using similar programs for disk treatment:

  • CrystalDiskInfo;
  • Victoria HDD;
  • HDDScan;
  • MHDD;
  • HDD Low Level Format Tool.

Download HDD Regenerator

You can download the latest version of the program we are considering by clicking the button below.

Summing up

Well friends, we will end here. If you have a question on the topic of working with HDD Regenerator, feel free to ask it in the comments, we will try to give an exhaustive answer as soon as possible.

The HDD regenerator program is a powerful tool for recovering disks and their sectors. If you have tried simpler programs, and they did not give any results, then it's time to turn to the HDD regenerator. The utility works entirely in English. Of course, there is a “regenerator HDD rus” file on the developer's website, but it only Russifies the start menu, which you will rarely see. Try to diagnose and repair bad sectors of the hard disk in this program.

Go to the official website of the developer at http://www.dposoft.net and download the installation file of the program. Click on the “Download” link, select the save directory. Next, proceed to the process of unpacking the regenerator HDD, all the text in the window will be in English. Just click on the “Next” button.


Select the program installation directory. This is an important point, since you need to install the HDD regenerator on the disk that you are not going to check. Any open processes on the hard drive can interfere with diagnostics. Click the "Change" button and select the desired folder.


Wait for the installation process to complete, it will take a few minutes.


As soon as the “Cencel” button below changes to “Finish”, the installation is complete.


When you open the program for the first time, you may see a window that says the disk type is incorrect. You will be prompted to change the mode to IDE and restart your computer. If you are not ready to work with the BIOS, then click "no".
In the main HDD regenerator window, you will see three main links.
  • “Bootable USB Flash” - creates a bootable memory card if you have only one hard drive on your computer and you have nowhere to install the program. Or, for personal convenience in carrying.
  • “Bootable CD/DVD” is a bootable optical disc.
  • The topmost link, which begins with the words “Click here to repair…” is what you need at the moment, it will start the diagnostics.


Select the hard drive you want to recover. In this example, there is only one.


The program interface will be exactly as you see it in the screenshot below. You have three lines to choose from:
  • Prescan - diagnostics, after which you will see all bad sectors.
  • Scan with/without repair - a scan in which you can immediately run diagnostics.
  • Assembly information.

Which item to choose depends on your goals and the condition of the hard drive. In order to see the whole picture, it is better to opt for Prescan.
Type the number 1 and press Enter.


It remains to specify from which sector to start diagnosing the device. To complete the full - write 0 and press Enter.
If you know exactly which sector you need, then write 3.


The diagnostic process will take a long time, you can start doing other things while the computer is busy. It is better not to touch it and not open programs.
In addition, it is forbidden to open programs on the hard drive being diagnosed.


Once the diagnostic is over, you will see the number of bad sectors on the screen. To fix them, press the Esc key.
In the menu that appears, you need the fourth item to change the option. Press 4 and Enter.


Go to the second point to restore. Remember that the program does not respond to the mouse, you must manually enter a number and press the Enter key.


You will have the following options:
  • Scan and repair bad sectors.
  • Scan but not restore. You have already completed this step.
  • Regenerate all sectors in a certain interval. To do this, you need to know the interval of broken sectors, it is better not to select this item if you are not an experienced user.

To restore, press the number 1.


The recovery process is quite long, you can approximately find out the speed from the percentage value below.


Please note that the program restores only one bad sector. To fully restore the hard drive, you need to purchase a licensed version of the program on the developer's website. As a trial period, you get one recovery procedure to evaluate the performance of the HDD regenerator.

This utility is an indispensable assistant for many computer repair services, as it does not mask the problem, like other programs, but fixes it. Other programs simply disable the "bad" sector, so you lose some of your disk space.

Hdd regenerator program - how to use
This is a special utility that allows you to recover information from damaged hard disk (HDD) vectors with a high degree of probability (up to 50-60%). This is a fairly well-known program in narrow circles, which specializes specifically in restoring the health of damaged sectors (by remagnetizing them). According to its developers, it can help even in very difficult cases, which many experts agree with.

Many users (experts agree with them) strongly do not recommend trying to "reanimate" the hard drive on their own. Even a minor mistake can lead to fatal consequences (including the inability to recover data). Today there are quite a lot of special services that are engaged in the recovery of information from damaged media, and such a procedure is inexpensive.

How it works

The principle of operation of the utility is based on the fact that it
alternately generates and sends signals of various lengths and powers to inaccessible (damaged) disk sectors. Such an impact leads to magnetization reversal of individual sectors of the HDD, or the entire disk as a whole. As a rule, sectors become inoperative precisely because of improper magnetization or demagnetization.

The main advantage of the program is that such interference with the operation of the disk (its remagnetization) does not affect user or system files. Thus, as a result of the program's operation, it is guaranteed that the information on the disk will not be affected, respectively, they will not be affected.

Hdd Regenerator (version 1.71) - how to use

How to use the Hdd Regenerator program will be described below, it is distributed free of charge (and its use is already conditionally “free”). To install it on your computer, you need to download it, and in the archive with the utility there is a crack and detailed installation instructions (file "Readme.txt").

Once it is installed on the desktop, the Hdd Regenerator icon will appear. Click on it and run the program. After launching it, a window will appear where the user will be prompted to make a choice (run a scan followed by disk recovery or create a new bootable flash drive).
In order to start the procedure for recovering information from non-working media (disks), click on the "Regeneration" button, which is located on the top panel. From the proposed (drop-down) list, select "Start process under Windows".
Next (in the next window that appears), you need to select the disk that we will restore. By the way, all disks connected to the system will be reflected here with their numerical characteristics: the number of sectors and their volume. Having selected the disk you need, click "start", which is located in the middle horizontally, and on the right vertically.

After clicking on the "start" button, a warning window will appear, which reflects all the programs that are currently used by the system (and they are located on this disk). To continue the procedure, all these programs will need to be closed (or terminated).

At the next stage (if everything was done correctly in the previous one), a black-and-white program window should appear (as in Windows DOS).

In the window, the user will need to choose from 4 options:
1) perform diagnostics and subsequent recovery of the disk;
2) only diagnostics, without subsequent data recovery, with a report on completion;
3) perform only recovery (without preliminary diagnostics);
4) generate and display statistics.

In brackets at the bottom, you must write a number (process number). For novice users, it is recommended to select item 2, i.e. diagnostics.

If you have chosen operation number 2 (recommended), the following window will appear, where you will need to select a scanning range, where you can choose which sector to start from.
Next, the program will start scanning the entire HDD from the selected sector. Upon completion, a window with the results of the scan will appear. They will show: the number of bad sectors of the HDD that can be recovered, the number of already fixed and unrecoverable sectors.

During the scanning process, you can press the "Esc" key. In this case, an additional menu will appear. In the window that appears, the user will be offered 5 options:
1) continue the data recovery process;
2) generate and display statistics at the moment of stopping;
3) change/edit scan boundaries;
4) change/edit the scan mode;
5) exit to the main menu of the program.

Using the Hdd Regenerator utility, the process of recovering data from non-working hard drives can be performed by anyone, even without special training (or deep knowledge). And most importantly, it does not take much time. Many reviews on the Internet confirm that it is able to quite successfully recover information from damaged disk sectors, with its rather small size, only 8.8 megabytes.

Conclusion

Immediately it should be warned that this product is "relatively" free. Those. you can download it and use it for the first time for free, so to speak, get acquainted with its capabilities. If you use the utility later, a window appears.

In short, it says here that the disk contains bad sectors (will be listed), which can be restored using this program. However, for this it is already necessary to pay (purchase) for the full version in order to use it.

The main difference of this program from its analogues, it is also its main advantage - a low-level algorithm of work. This allows, through large-scale integration into the DOS environment, to gain access to information contained on the HDD disk, access to which was previously closed, as well as to restore data quite efficiently (+ control this process).

A hard drive is not an eternal component of a computer system. Unfortunately, sooner or later it fails. The reason for this is demagnetization, as a result of which bad sectors appear. But what to do to extend, or even completely restore the performance of the hard drive? According to many experts, one simple program will help with this, and it is about it that we will talk today. To be more precise, the article will tell you how to use HDD Regenerator 1.71, but it’s worth clarifying right away that the guide is suitable for other versions of the application.

Testing

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Since the developers of the program position it as a tool for recovering bad sectors of a hard disk, it would be wise to start an article on the topic “How to use HDD Regenerator” directly from this function. However, it will not be entirely correct to do this, because there can be many reasons for a drive failure. It is for this purpose that the software has a S.M.A.R.T testing function. This is one of the most reliable disk diagnostic systems, so it is recommended to use it before proceeding with the "repair" of the drive.

  • Run the program.
  • On the top panel, click on the section called S.M.A.R.T.
  • Wait for the diagnostics to finish.

    • As a result of a rather lengthy analysis, the program will show you the status of the hard drive. If there are no problems with it, then you will see the inscription "OK". If it is different, then you can be sure that the problem lies in bad sectors and you need to use the option to restore them.

    Disk Recovery

    Guide on how to use HDD Regenerator 2011, we will continue directly with the most important feature of the program - the ability to recover bad sectors of the hard drive. In fact, this procedure is quite time-consuming, so be patient and don't miss anything.

  • Launch the application.
  • On the top panel, click on the Regeneration section, which translates as "Recovery".
  • In the section menu that appears, select the Start Process under Windows option.
  • Immediately after that, a window will appear in which a list of hard drives installed in the computer will be displayed. All you need to do at this stage is to select the desired hard drive and click the Start Process button.
  • A pseudo-graphical interface window will appear. For some users, working in it is not very comfortable, however, following the instructions, you should not have any problems with this.
  • To start the recovery process, enter the number "2" from the keyboard and press the Enter key.
  • In the next menu, you must press the key with the number "1", and then Enter. Thus, you will start the process of scanning bad sectors with their subsequent recovery.
  • Now you need to specify from which sector you want to check. It is best to check the entire disk, respectively, start from zero. To do this, enter the number "1" in the window and press Enter.

    • As soon as you complete all the above steps, an indicator of the progress of the restoration work will appear on the screen. It is with its help that you can track how many bad sectors were detected and how many of them were recovered. All that remains to be done is to wait for the scan to complete.

    Create a bootable flash drive

    From the guide on how to use HDD Regenerator, you already know how to recover bad sectors. This is the main function of the program, however, not the last one. With it, you can create a bootable USB flash drive in order to drop some program on it in the future to run it directly from the drive.

  • Open the program window.
  • Insert a USB flash drive into a port on your computer.
  • From the main menu of the application, click on the Bootable USB Flash button.
  • A new menu will open that will display a list of detected flash drives connected to the computer. Select your flash drive from the list and click OK.
  • A new window will appear, which will say that as a result of the operation, all data from the drive will be erased. Click OK to start the operation.

    • It doesn't last very long. Immediately after the end, the program will notify you of this, after which you can copy the program to the USB flash drive to run it from the BIOS.

    Create a boot disk

    The instruction on how to use HDD Regenerator would not be complete if it did not tell you how to create a boot disk. In general, this operation is not much different from the previous one, but for the sake of completeness, we will describe it in detail:

  • Run the program.
  • Insert a CD or DVD into your computer drive.
  • Click Bootable CD/DVD in the main menu.
  • In the list of detected optical drives, select the disc you just inserted and click OK.
  • Wait until the end of the process.

    • Now you fully know how to use HDD Regenerator. Of course, there are a few more items in the application that have not been discussed, however, they play a mediocre role.

    Conclusion

    So we figured out how to use the HDD Regenerator program. As you can see, despite the fact that the developers position it as a hard drive recovery application, it has other equally useful features. You can easily use it to create a boot disk, USB flash drive or test the drive. In general, the program is very useful and it is recommended to install it on the computer immediately so that at any time there is an opportunity to influence the operation of the computer.

    Many of us are familiar with the situation when using a computer becomes problematic due to the fact that your hard drive suddenly refuses to work correctly. The most common option is the so-called bad sectors, which cannot be read. One of them is the HDD Regenerator program.

    Purpose of the program:

    1. Diagnostics of software malfunctions, treatment of bad blocks.
    2. Hard disk diagnostics () and real-time status monitoring.
    3. If the OS does not boot due to errors on the HDD, you can quickly burn a bootable USB flash drive and bring the hard drive into working condition.

    Quite often the cause of disk failure. The above program is designed specifically to fix this problem.

    Download the program installer, install and run. By the way, the latest versions are paid, but there is always the possibility download demo, which works with restrictions.

    Before the first launch of the program, be sure to disable all running applications, including antivirus. Otherwise, the operation of HDD Regenerator may be incorrect or even impossible. The program will warn you if you have not disabled everything and you can correct your mistake

    The program interface is simple and clear. Once launched, you must scan your hard drive by clicking the appropriate button.

    Once the process is completed, you will see a list of all logical drives on your PC in front of you. Select a drive to scan and click "Start Process".

    I must say that all actions will be performed in the command line window, so you will need basic knowledge of English. But even if you don't have them, it's okay!

    There are only four menu items: scanning with the restoration of damaged areas, normal scanning (without "treatment"), restoration of sectors in a single section of the disk, and displaying statistics after the scan is completed.

    To select an item, you need to enter the appropriate number from the keyboard and press "Enter" ("Enter"). After that, we calmly wait until the program completes its work.

    After the scan is completed, you can view the statistics:

    • number of bad sectors [B]
    • number of recovered [R]
    • and just found bad sectors [N],
    • as well as the total number of "bad" sectors [R]

    When the trial version of the HDD Regenerator program stumbles upon a bad block, it becomes clear why the program is paid. She heals the first one, and to restore the rest, you need to pay for the full version.

    On some sites you can find information that the program is unique and "surface reversal". This is not so, the program does not do anything supernatural. It just repeatedly overwrites badly readable sectors. As a result, soft-bads will be overwritten, and for more complex ones, the standard Remap procedure will be launched.

    The program is quite suitable for the treatment of Soft-Bad blocks, but given that there are good free analogues, it is better to use them. For example, or.