Hard disk drive diagnostic utility ~ a tool to check your hard drive for any manufactured defect. It is useful for home user to check their hard drive before sending to manufacturer for a new good replaced hard drive. Every hard drive manufacturer has their own diagnostic utility to check faulty hard drive. And here is the one for Samsung Hard Disk Drive ~ ES-Tool.
ES-Tool 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
ES-Tool can test a drive solely manufactured by Samsung. And it is a DOS based utility. So you need to have bootable 1.44-MB diskette or CD-ROM. Floppy drive is long gone by now. I still have issue to create a bootable USB Pen Drive. So the only way is use CD-ROM.
Download Samsung Hard Disk Drive Diagnostic Utility – ES-Tool CDROM and FDD.
I figured out a way to use ES-Tool without needing a CD-ROM or floppy.
I know this is an old post, but I’ll post it here in case someone else needs the info.
All you have to do is create a bootable flash drive using a tool like Rufus (I choose FreeDOS as the boot method). Once you have it ready, just copy the FDD version of ES-Tool onto the flash drive.
Now, once you reboot your PC with the flash drive, it’ll go into DOS (giving you the C:\ prompt). Then execute the FDD version of ES-Tool and there you go!
Remember to configure your UEFI or BIOS to boot from the flash drive. I also had to switch to IDE mode for the flash drive to boot (I’m normally on AHCI mode).
I hope this helps!
Thats cool man.
I was after this tool… to make a zero fill.. it`s no longer avaible in samsung site =/
Today is a usually task make a bootable flash disk… =D
But, the hint is good =)
Man… even many year`s later… This is the only site I found with the ISO file for the ES Tool.
I want to make some testes in my HD with it! =D
Thanks
I was looking for a diagnostic for a broken (read-only) Samsung SSD , a 2TB Evo 980 M2 drive. This tool looks awesome but I think only useful for mechanical HDs.