The hard drive is not an eternal component of the 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 prolong, or even restore the hard drive's performance? According to the assurances of 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 right away it is worth clarifying that the guide is suitable for other versions of the application as well.
Testing
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Since the developers of the program position it as a tool for recovering bad sectors of a hard drive, it would be wise to start an article on the topic "How to use the 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 the 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.
As a result of a rather lengthy analysis, the program will show you the status of the hard disk. 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 the bad sectors and you need to use the option to restore them.
Disk recovery
The guide on how to use the 2011 HDD Regenerator will continue 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.
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 found and how many of them were restored. All that remains to be done is to wait for the scan to complete.
Creating a bootable USB 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. With its help, you can create a bootable USB flash drive in order to drop some program onto it in the future to run it directly from the drive.
It does not 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 instructions on how to use the HDD Regenerator would not be complete if it did not tell you how to create a bootable disk. In general, this operation is not much different from the previous one, but for the sake of completeness, we will tell you about it in detail:
Now you fully know how to use HDD Regenerator. Of course, there are a few more points in the appendix that were not mentioned, however, they play a mediocre role.
Conclusion
So we figured out how to use the HDD Regenerator program. As can be noted, despite the fact that the developers position it as an application for restoring the health of a hard drive, it has other equally useful functions. You can easily use it to create a bootable disk, USB flash drive or test a 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.
A hard disk, or HDD, is the most valuable place on a computer. all important information is stored on it. The hard drive, unfortunately, is a rather fragile thing, so problems with it can arise, and quite often. If it so happens that the hard drive is damaged, do not panic, because it can be restored using the HDD Regenerator program, which I want to tell you about today.
HDD Regenerator - a fairly well-known program that specializes specifically in recovering bad sectors of the hard drive. The program is successfully used not only by ordinary PC users, but also by service centers.
The main difference between HDD Regenerator and other similar programs is that it re-magnetizes a bad sector, just restoring it, and not hiding, as other programs do.
Beginning of work.
You can try HDD Regenerator by downloading the trial version of the program from the link at the end of the article.
Once the file is downloaded, install and run the program.
Before starting work, be sure to close all programs that access the hard disk during operation (antivirus programs, search indexing, etc.).
First, the program must run a scan process to assess the health of the hard drive. Select in the upper window the button indicated by the arrow in the screenshot below. 
A new window will open in which a list of disks that can be scanned will be available. Select the required one and click the "Start process" button.
If you haven't closed any background programs, HDD Regenerator will display a warning. To continue scanning, you will have to close the remaining programs that interfere with the program's operation. 
Next, a command line window will appear in front of you, where 4 actions are available to choose from:
1. Scanning with recovery of bad sectors;
2. Normal scanning without recovering bad sectors;
3. Recovery of sectors of a certain area of the hard disk;
4.
Show statistics after the end of the recovery process. 
For scanning with the recovery process, select the first item. In my case, I will choose the second item to conduct a scan without recovery. To select an item, you need to go to it using the arrows on the keyboard and select with the Enter key.
Next, you need to indicate which segment of the hard disk will serve as the beginning of the scan. After that, the program will start working.
After completing the HDD Regenerator, the program will display the results, among which you will see the number of recovered sectors, segments that cannot be recovered (this may be) and other valuable information.
Thus, the program, by virtue of its capabilities, does an excellent job of its task, and it can be safely recommended to users for high-quality hard drive recovery.
The hard drive is one of the most important elements of a computer. To avoid serious problems with your computer, you need to monitor the health of your hard drive. If you are thinking about checking the status of the hard disk, then it is most advisable to do this procedure using the program HDD Regenerator .
HDD Regenerator is unique in that it allows you to recover bad sectors of your hard drive, unlike other programs that simply hide them. The first serious signs of hard drive problems include:
1) Long opening of folders and files;
Stages of checking the hard drive.
2. To use HDD Regenerator, it is best to create a bootable USB flash drive or disk with the program, but the easiest way to start checking is to boot from Windows.
To do this, launch the main program window and open the tab in the upper left corner "Regeneration" , and then select "Start Process under Windows" .
3. In chapter "Choose Drive to Process" select the drive to be scanned and recovered, and then click the small item "Start Process" .
4. The program will warn you that to start the scan, you must close all programs running on your computer. Close as many programs as possible.
5. A black window will appear, in which control is carried out not by the mouse, but exclusively by the keyboard. First, let's run a normal scan in which you can choose whether to recover bad sectors or not. This parameter is located under item number 2 so type that number on your keyboard and hit the Enter key.
6. In the next step, the program will ask you to choose whether you are going to recover the bad sectors or if you want to limit yourself to just checking with a report. By choosing the number 1, the program will start checking for errors with subsequent correction, the second item will only perform checking.
7. Observe the progress of the process. At the bottom of the window, the completed process, the number of bad sectors found and the number of corrected sectors will be displayed.
8. As soon as the HDD Regenerator process is over, the program will display a detailed report on the number of errors found and fixed.
Separately, I would like to note the item "Delays detected", which denotes a delay. If the number is too high at this point, then, most likely, the disk check was carried out for a very long time. This indicates that the hard drive is worn out and damaged. In this regard, it is more expedient to replace it.
Conclusion. Of course, HDD Regenerator is not a 100% solution for everyone. As far as possible, the program can help with the recovery of bad sectors, but if the disk is excessively damaged, then the program is already powerless.
Well, who among the users of modern PCs or laptops have not encountered a problem when a computer or the same laptop hangs. Little of! The problem often lies in the fact that the hard drive began to "crumble". Change it? Costs, and considerable. But the utility HDD Regenerator, if not 100%, then 99% will be able to restore work. Let's see what it is.
What is the HDD Regenerator program for?
Initially, as some users assume, the application was created exclusively in the likeness of the "native" Windows utility for a standard check of a hard disk, because it is in most cases that it is not only the cause of system failures, but also a device that cannot store information for a long time.
The program HDD Regenerator Windows (in the sense - the "operating system" itself) initializes as well as possible. It’s not even a matter of the system, but of the minimum volume. The fact is that the simplest version of HDD Regenerator in Russian "weighs" only 8.8 MB. And this is subject to her capabilities!
Principle of operation
But let's see what this utility is capable of, because many experts call it almost the greatest discovery in the field of computer technology over the past half century.
It used to be thought that if someone started to interfere with a hard drive, it would most likely have to go to a landfill. The HDD Regenerator application (the Russian version is the dream of many) can not only fix errors, but, as it is said, restore damaged sectors of the hard drive at the physical level. Do you believe in fairy tales? Let's see where is the truth and where is the lie.
The program combines the sent signals of the high and low power readout laser with short pulses, which, interacting at this level, create a magnetic field. Thanks to chiseled "shots" at each damaged cluster or disk partition (namely the hard disk), the so-called magnetization reversal effect is achieved. It should be noted that the data of any cluster remains intact, which completely excludes informational interference.
How this happens is still a mystery to many users; moreover, even experts are amazed at how such a technology could have been invented. With all this, many note that the program itself has a fairly powerful resource, although it works in a non-standard mode (which, by the way, confuses many very much).
Installing HDD Regenerator: Russian full release
Let's start with the installation. It is best to download the paid version of the program from the official website (hddregenerator.net). But! Most often, an unofficial copy is found in Runet, which may contain three files: the installation distribution kit Setup, an additional descriptive file with the extension .txt or .nfo, and a special executable patch. Antiviruses often recognize it as something unusable, even if all three objects are, for example, in a RAR archive.
It turns out that our user needs to install the English version, and then, as they call it, just patch it. Note that this procedure is by and large illegal, since the paid version of the HDD Regenerator Rus package is quite expensive, but, unfortunately, this only applies to the installer.
No matter what anyone claims, there is no program with a Russian-language interface, since it works in the command line mode through something similar to DOS.
Operations at a glance
After installing and running the program, the main window will open, in which, at first, we are interested in two main sections: disk scanning and creating a bootable USB. If the system still reacts, we use the first option.
HDD Regenerator allows you to perform several types of actions besides viewing information. The first is a conventional scan. The second is to scan and fix, the third and fourth is to display reports and statistics.
Scan and recovery
If you start with the simplest, after starting the utility, you can simply press the number "1", which should be entered in square brackets in the "dos" window. Note that this is exactly like DOS, and control can only be carried out using the keyboard (the mouse is completely disabled in this situation).
Now let's look at the issues related specifically to automatic recovery. To do this, in the main window of the running utility, select the number "2". This is where the biggest difficulties begin. Depending on the size of the disk and the extent of its damage, let alone fixing it, the scanning process itself can take hours. Therefore, before starting the utility, it is recommended to start using standard Windows tools in the form of a command line, where the sfc / scannow command is written.
Boot from USB stick
But if we take into account the possibilities of the first launch of the application, from the start menu, you can also select the creation of a bootable flash drive. The program will detect the existing USB drive and then copy its own boot files to it.
Please note: the flash drive must have a volume of at least 1 GB, and after copying the data, the boot priority First Boot Device: USB must be set in the BIOS. But not all users know that when you reboot, the flash drive must first be inserted into the port, and only then turn on the computer or laptop.
Otherwise, the device will not be detected in the BIOS even with boot enabled. In this case, when you restart, not Windows will start, but our program.
What you should pay attention to separately
Now a few more words about what not to do. Of course, the HDD Regenerator itself in an active state shows the user some additional operations in the sense of activating them by pressing certain keys. The saddest thing is that many users, seeing that the process is taking too long, follow the recommendations of the utility and press the Pause / Break button on the keyboard.
It is strongly discouraged to do this, otherwise even the developer does not guarantee that the scanning or recovery process will end successfully (and whether it will end at all). You should also not pay attention to some "freezing" of the application in the process of work. This is normal.
In addition, sometimes during scanning of a hard disk (note, not a disk logical partition), the monitor screen may go blank for several minutes without any reaction. This is also normal. The process, if not violated, will recover by itself.
Instead of a total
As you can see, the HDD Regenerator program itself does not represent anything complicated in terms of installation or use. But many experts recommend using it only as a last resort. In addition, you need to look at the verification statistics separately. If the number of waits (delays) of requests to access the clusters of the hard drive is expressed by too large a two- or three-digit number, the hard disk will have to be replaced. No magnetization reversal will help here.
On the other hand, some hard drive creators advise using the HDD Regenerator application (advanced paid version) in tandem with a unique utility for checking the mentioned devices and fixing errors on them called Victoria, as it turns out, from a Belarusian developer who literally blew up the world with his program.
In general, you should take the issue of hard disk regeneration very seriously, otherwise there can be a lot of problems, especially if you run the software of the system without first creating a bootable flash drive. But in general, there should be no problems. And all these processes do not carry any serious consequences or threats to the disk itself or the installed system.
Purpose of the program: testing and repairing hard drives.
Let's see what they offer us.
We launch the program, select the disk for work. Double clicking on the disk line launches a console window with the program itself.
A DOS-like window opens, a little out of date, but it’s probably easier to update the program - you have to rewrite less. We select the type of scanning. Confirmation of selection - enter.
- Quick search (there is no explanation of what this means in the description, perhaps scanning of individual areas of the disk)
- Full scan with or without recovery
Then the following menu is displayed. You need to choose how to scan.
- Scan and Repair.
- Scan without recovery.
- Regenerate (do you believe in miracles?) All sectors, even the good ones.
And the last menu.
You need to specify the scan range. You can start from the beginning - from the zero address, you can continue the interrupted session, you can set the range of sectors manually. We will scan the entire disk first - select 1.
Checking the disc surface begins. From the current data, only the percentage of passed and, approximately, the remaining time. What other options are there? When paused (Esc), an additional menu is displayed.
Let's see what's in there.
- Proceed.
- Show statistics.
- Change scan boundaries.
- Change scan mode.
- Exit the program.
The number of sectors checked, sectors with a delay is shown, but there is no breakdown by the delay time, how many sectors have not been recovered, the number of recovered sectors, the number of newly appeared bad sectors. Oddly enough, but all free analogs (Victoria (dos & win), MHDD, HDDScan (win)) display much more current information about the scan, which allows you to more accurately assess the state of the disk and the prospects for its recovery.
What is paid in this utility? This becomes clear when she bumps into the first bad. One she processes as a demonstration of possibilities. And on the second bed, it displays such an enticing message.
The disc contains Recoverable damage and to fix them, you need to pay for the full version of the program.
It would be appropriate to compare HDDRegenerator with its competitors such as Victoria for windows. An example of how to use it, we have a "link". Here we show how it looks and what it can do just for comparison.
Getting started with the program.
The disk is selected from the list of devices in the system. The working window displays the disk passport. The regenerator does not display the passport. For some malfunctions, the disc displays the wrong passport. The capabilities of the program are visible in the Test tab.
Here only at first glance it seems that it is difficult. After reading the description of the practical application, everything quickly becomes clear. For example, the notorious sectors with a delay in the regenerator here in Victoria are sorted by response time and, for clarity, are highlighted in colors.
As for the restoration of sectors, there is also a complete set of tools.
Remap- analogue of repair in the Regenerator.
Erase- analogue regenerate, yes, it is overwriting, no information will remain in the sector.
If Vitoria seems to be overloaded, then there is also HDDScan, a very handy program and an example of its use here is the "link".
The principle of operation of the regenerator is that it repeatedly overwrites badly read sectors until the disk itself replaces them from the reserve zone. It will simply overwrite the soft-bad, and for the hardware bad it will start the remap procedure provided for by the ATA standard, i.e. nothing supernatural is applied. All these procedures are fatal for data contained in slow-reading sectors.
If you use this program or any other with a similar purpose on a damaged disk with important data, then you should remember that all operations for repairing a drive are fatal for the information on it, because write during operation, which is unacceptable for DataRecovery procedures.
But all programs, except for hddregenerator, honestly warn about the danger of data loss. And only the regenerator promises miracles without warning that it is actively using writing to problem sectors and that this can lead to the loss of user data.
HDD Regenerator can be used to get rid of soft-bad blocks from a disk. He will cope with this task. But given that this product is paid, then in the presence of free utilities, its use is extremely limited.