Utilities
Your Ultrastar drive comes low-level formatted and free of defects. Note: Do not attempt to low-level
format your drive. If data must be removed from the drive, there are 2 utilities available on the IBM Hard
Disk Drive Technical Support Center FTP site at: http://index.storsys.ibm.com/hddtech
.
ZAP
Zap is a utility that will 'zap' your boot sector by writing 0's to the first 128 sectors of your drive.
WIPE
Wipe
performs the function of ZAP
and
also
writes 0's to the entire drive.
These utilities should be sufficient to return your drive to factory-shipped condition.
Drive copy
If you are replacing an existing hard drive with the Ultrastar drive, you may want to copy all your files from
the existing drive to the Ultrastar. There are several software programs available that copy one drive to
another.
PowerQuest Drive Copy 2.0
(http://www.powerquest.com/product/dc.index.html)
This utility supports all operating systems, has mouse support, selective partitioning, selective
sector copying, and automatically creates new DOS reboot disk. This utility is not limited by drive
size.
QuarterDeck Systems DiskClone
(http://www.qdeck.com/qdeck/products/diskclone/indexreg.html)
This utility supports all operating systems and has mouse support.
ITS Systems EZ-Upgrader
(http://www.itechs-systems.com/)
This utility can be used with Windows® 3.1 andWindows® 95 operating systems.
Image Systems Solutions Drive-to-Drive
(http://www.img-systems.com/d2ddesc.htm)
This utility is for use with all operating systems, but is limited to copying drives with similar
physical geometry.
FWB software Drive Up!
(http://www.fwb.com/)
This utility is used with Windows® operating systems only.
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