Preliminary
- ES Tool (The Drive Diagnostic Utility) is made with the aim of testing a Samsung hard disk drive while it is installed inside a PC, regardless of the status of user's operating system. In fact of the drives returned to Samsung, a large percentage are NTF("No Trouble Found") after testing. So it is strongly recommended to test the drive if it is truly defective by a few fundamental troubleshooting of ES Tool first, to avoid user's unnecessary effort and inconvenience of replacing a good drive.
- ES Tool can test a drive solely manufactured by Samsung. It is strongly recommended to back up the user's significant data in advance because ES Tool has a Write operation that can erase it. Samsung has no responsibility of lost data.
- The version on pictures may be different from that you download.
Execution
- ES Tool is a DOS based utility so it is needed to prepare a bootable 1.44-MB diskette in advance.
- Download ES Tool.exe on the diskette prepared from the internet.
- Reboot the system by above diskette.
- Execute the program by typing A:＼> ES Tool.exe in DOS prompt.
- Please Back-up your data before executing this program.
Functions
- DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC
- LOW LEVEL FORMAT
- SET MAX ADDRESS
- SET MAX UDMA MODE
- AAM MODE (Automatic Acoustic Management)
- LBA MODE
- ENABLE SMART
- DISABLE SMART
- INFORMATION
- AUTO DETECT
- ABOUT ESTOOL
- EXIT TO DOS
Top screen
- If you agree above DISCLAIMER, press Y.
Auto detection
- Select the HDD which you want to test
- Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys
Drive Diagnostic-1
- Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys
- Select the DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC and press ENTER
Drive Diagnostic-2
- You can see above screen during function test and simple surface scan.
Drive Diagnostic-3
- Because of big capacity, above message will appear.
If you want to scan entire surface, press 'y'.
Drive Diagnostic-4
- If there is no error on it, you will get above message.
Low Level Format-1
- You can erase your drive partially or entirely.
Low Level Format-2
- Because of data protection, above message will appear.
Set Max Address
- Default value of TARGET LBA or TARGET SIZE represents the current drive size.
- If you want to resize drive capacity, select TARGET LBA or TARGET SIZE and type the proper LBA or MB number that you want to change. After adjusting drive capacity, perform PROCESS by pressing Enter Key.
- Regarding MODE, you are presented to select either NON-VOLATILE, changed capacity is effective regardless of power off/on, or VOLATILE, changed capacity is effective as long as power on (i.e. after power off/on, drive capacity will be retrieved to original one).
- If you want to recover to the original size of drive, perform RECOVER NATIVE SIZE by pressing Enter Key.
- DISPLAY CURRENT STATUS represents the current size of drive.
- If you set 32GB Clip due to capacity limitation of system, remove the 32GB clip to adjust the LBA or SIZE.
- After performing SET MAX ADDRESS user's previous data will be corrupted. Therefore it takes into great consideration to back-up the data in advance. Samsung has no responsibility of lost data.
Set Max UDMA mode
- If Motherboard supports UDMA33 and drive has been set as UDMA 100, then recommended to adjust drive's mode to UDMA 33 by this function.
- This will not perform write operation but recommended to back up the data in preparation for the worst case.
- Select the proper UDMA mode by selecting UDMA MODE (33/66/100/133 is changed by pressing Enter Key) and perform PROCESS by pressing Enter Key.
- DISPLAY CURRENT MODE represents the current UDMA status.
AAM Mode : Automatic Acoustic Management Mode
- You can select a proper seek mode among FAST/MIDDLE/QUIET in accordance with user's circumstance.
- Select the proper AAM by selecting AAM MODE (Quiet/Middle/Fast is changed by pressing Enter Key) and perform PROCESS by pressing Enter Key.
- DISPLAY CURRENT MODE represents current AAM status.
- Performance : Fast>Middle>Quiet (Fast is the best)
- Acoustic Noise : Fast>Middle>Quiet (Quiet is the best)
Drive Information
- You can see your drive's information.
