How to use Victoria (program for hard disks). Victoria HDD: how to use
Oddly enough, but sometimes the "fall" of the operating roomsystem does occur without user intervention. The fact is that such an unfortunate outcome is greatly contributed by the incredible density of recording on modern hard drives, as well as the complexity of modern SATA interfaces. Even a backup copy of the system does not always save.
Introduction to the topic
The cause is damage to hard disk sectors. Such zones in the environment of professional "computer people" are called "Bad Sector" or "Bad Block" (from the English word Bad, that is bad). The trouble is that the presence of such zones very often makes it absolutely impossible not only to restore the OS, but even its final installation with the formatting of the media. In this case, it is necessary to replicate the "broken" sectors for their "restoration".
We did not accidentally take the word "Restoration" inquotes. The fact is that Remap is a replacement of a bad sector by a similar block from the reserve, which is always available on all hard disks. As a rule, all this is done systematically in fully automatic mode, but for some reasons some hard drives do not support this feature (automatic replacement).
Special programs
This is where they become necessaryspecialized utilities. One of the best and revered of them is Victoria. This wonderful program saved hard disks in the doldrums of DOS, and now many experts prefer to run it in this mode. Today we will learn how to use Victoria.
Beginning of work
First of all, it is necessary to make a boota flash drive. Of course, traditionally the utility is launched from a floppy disk, and for this the manufacturer even offers the file MAKEDISK.BAT, but there is practically no drive for floppy disks today on the computers of home users.
Tips for writing a boot image to a flash drive are available on the official website of the program, so we will not dwell on this.
Booted from the media (previouslyin BIOS the necessary variant of loading), you can contemplate the classical test interface of the program, inherited from its distant ancestors of DOS times. We continue to learn how to use the program Victoria.
Important aspects
Define the disk connection interface
In the first window, press the F2 keythe purpose of automatically determining the type of hard disk interface. If the program has not been able to do this in automatic mode, you will have to do it manually. To do this, press the P key (English), then a window with a list of interfaces appears. Select the desired one, using the arrow keys, then click on Enter.
In general, the program Victoria in Russian came out relatively recently, so it's better to immediately remember the English terms, as in older versions they are found everywhere.
Attention!
If you have an old hard drive with an IDE interface,should be extremely careful approach to the latter action. In particular, if you do not know the difference between Primary Master and Secondary Slave, it's better to quit the program, since all your subsequent actions can lead to irreversible consequences, up to the damage of the hard disk itself.
So, how to use Victoria?
Getting Started
Once you have selected the correct hard drive andPress Enter, a message will appear at the bottom of the program window about the successful completion of the presets. After that, press the F2 button on the keyboard. You will immediately see the passport of the selected hard drive.
By default,the disk surface (the Start and End positions). If desired, you can change the value (in bytes) to the volume you want to check. In addition, you should select the option "Linear Reading", Ignore Bad Blocks and Change end of test. The plotting can also be turned off, especially since it is recommended by the developers of the Victoria HDD: many users know how to use the program, but the decoding of such information is not for amateurs.
Note!
However, in most cases, the active systemthe partition is at the very "beginning" of the disk, so in some cases it is quite acceptable (for the sake of reducing the scan time) to specify a smaller amount of checked disk space.
By the way, you can specify this value not only inbytes, but also in percentage, which can greatly facilitate the procedure of diagnosis. In addition, the latest versions of the program have the ability to set the volume in gigabytes. But! For programmatic limitations, the limit of one terabyte can not be exceeded.
Before using the program Victoria, we would recommend once again to recall the risks that the inaccurate treatment of hard disk partitions brings. Do not forget about it!
About reading modes
In addition to "Linear" you can put "Random" modeand apply the option "Butterfly" (Butterfly). With the help of the two latest techniques, you can get much more reliable test results, but we strongly do not recommend using them without extreme need. First, the test time itself increases by about 10 (!) Times. Secondly, which is much worse, these techniques dramatically increase the wear rate of the mechanical part of the spindle disk. The old hard drive from such "executions" can simply fail.
There is no right to mistake
After selecting Ignore Bad Blocks, pressA space by changing the value to BB = Advanced REMAP. If you carefully read the introduction, you already know the meaning of this term. But! If you click "Space" again, the option BB = Erase 256 sect will be displayed. This mode erases (!) Data from the hard drive! Extremely useful when preparing a hard drive for sale, but can play a very evil joke with an inexperienced user ... Once again, warn: before you use Victoria, once again, check everything!
Everything! After pressing the Enter key, the same disk check will start, for which everything was started. The number of bad sectors found in the hard drive will be displayed in the lower right part of the working window. If they are found, they will be automatically replaced by backup sectors (“Remap”).
To exit the program upon completion of work, click on X (X). Here's how to use Victoria.
