HDD Regenerator
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Version: 1.61

Table of Contents
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     1. Introduction
     2. Main benefits of HDD Regenerator
     3. How it works
     4. Minimum system requirements 
     5. Supported file systems
     6. Installing and uninstalling
     7. How to start HDD Regenerator
     8. Working with HDD Regenerator Console Application 


Introduction
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Welcome to HDD Regenerator - a unique software program for regeneration 
of hard disk drives. The program eliminates physical bad sectors* on a hard 
disk drive surface. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them!

Main benefits of HDD Regenerator
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Hard disk drive is an integral part of every computer. It stores all your 
information. One of the most prevalent defects of hard drives is bad sectors on 
the disk surface. Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains not 
readable, but frequently necessary information. As a result of bad sectors you 
may have difficulties to read and copy data from your disk, your operating 
system becomes unstable and finally your computer may unable to boot altogether. 
When a hard drive is damaged with bad sectors, the disk not only becomes unfit 
for use, but also you risk losing information stored on it. The HDD Regenerator 
can repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data. As a 
result, previously unreadable and inaccessible information is restored.

How it works
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HDD Regenerator regenerates bad sectors by magnetic reversal. This technology is 
hardware independent, it supports many types of hard drives and repairs damage 
that even low-level disk formatting cannot repair. Because of the way the repair 
is made, the existing information on the disk drive will not be affected!

Minimum system requirements 
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The product can be installed on Windows XP / Vista and it is 
intended for:

     1. Starting the regenerating process directly under Windows**
     2. Creating a bootable regenerating flash or CD/DVD to start 
         the regenerating process under DOS

If you cannot boot your computer to Windows (no operating system is installed 
on your computer or the operating system is damaged), install HDD Regenerator 
on any computer with Windows XP/Vista operating system and create a bootable 
regenerating flash or bootable regenerating CD/DVD, then boot your computer 
from this flash/CD created to start the regenerating process.

Supported file systems
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The product works exclusively at physical level. It ignores file system 
and can be used with FAT, NTFS or any other file system, and also with 
unformatted or unpartitioned disks. During regeneration, the disk structure 
will not be changed and the existing data will not be affected.

As the product does not change the logical structure of a hard disk drive, 
the file system may contain marked earlier bad sector labels, even if the hard 
disk is already regenerated and not damaged by bad sectors. If you want to 
remove these marks, repartition the hard disk drive 

Installing and uninstalling
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In order to install HDD Regenerator, execute the installation file. The 
Installation Wizard will take you through the installation steps. When 
the installation has completed, press Finish button to close the Wizard. 

If you need to remove HDD Regenerator from your computer, use the 
Programs and Features applet (Add/Remove Programs) from Windows 
Control Panel.

How to start HDD Regenerator
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In order to start the product, double-click the HDD Regenerator icon on your 
desktop or select the HDD Regenerator icon from the Start menu. If you use 
the unregistered version, you can regenerate only one recoverable bad sector. 
The main purpose of the unregistered demo version is displaying a report 
that contains information about the possibility to regenerate your disk by 
means of the registered full version. The registered version carefully scans 
the hard disk drive surface and regenerates all found recoverable bad sectors.

To begin the regenerating process start the HDD Regenerator Console 
Application. You can start the Console Application directly from Windows** 
(the "Regeneration | Start Process under Windows" menu) or create a bootable 
regenerating flash (the "Regeneration | Create Bootable Flash" menu) or create 
a bootable regenerating CD/DVD (the "Regeneration | Create Bootable CD/DVD" 
menu). After the flash or CD is created, boot your computer from this flash/CD 
and the Console Application will start automatically under DOS.

Working with HDD Regenerator Console Application 
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To start the Console Application, use "Regeneration | Start Process under 
Windows" menu, or boot from the Bootable Regenerating Flash 
(the "Regeneration | Create Bootable Flash" menu) or boot from the Bootable 
Regenerating CD/DVD (the"Regeneration | Create Bootable CD/DVD" menu)

After you start the Console Application
     1. Choose the drive to regenerate
     2. Choose mode ("Scan and Repair" or "Scan Only")
     3. Enter the "Starting Sector" parameter. Leave this parameter 
        equal to 0 if you want to scan the entire disk. Enter the sector value 
        if you want to scan the disk not from the beginning. For example, you 
        don't want to scan the first 5 GB of your hard drive to save time, 
        because you know that this part of the surface does not contain bad 
        sectors. In this case enter the offset equal to 5000 with 'm' following 
        or 10240000 without 'm' following (number of sectors 
        5000*1024*1024/512=10240000)
     4. Wait while the scanning is completed.


NOTE: If you have started the Console Application under Windows and 
the Console does not respond to keyboard input, make sure that it has 
focus (click on the console window or use ALT-TAB keys combination 
to switch between windows)


*HDD Regenerator can repair physical bad sectors caused by magnetic errors
on a hard drive surface. If the hard drive has a physical breakage (damages
heads, circuit board, etc.), then it will not be repaired by the product.

**Unfortunately,  the repair mode will not be effective, if you have only one 
hard drive on your Vista system. The reason is that HDD Regenerator 
requires exclusive access to the hard drive under Vista. For obvious reasons, 
the exclusive access cannot be obtained to the hard drive on which Vista OS 
is installed. This is related to repair mode under Vista only. Scan mode does 
not require exclusive access to a drive. To obtain exclusive access to any 
hard drive on any system, please use the Bootable Regenerating Flash or 
CD/DVD option.




