hTest/hFormat
(ver 2.0)
Abandonware


The Paul Mace Software hTest/hFormat utility suite is used for 
Low-Level (physical level) hard drive formatting and testing.  
Although the software runs under DOS, the utilities can prepare 
drives for use by other operating systems.  

Be aware that these fantastic utilities were written for drives 
that came before IDE drives were available (i.e. RLL, MFM, 
etcetera drives), and therefore if used improperly on an IDE 
drive, have the potential to make the IDE drive unuseable!  


Included utilities = 
      C33TRAP.COM   - TSR buffers DOS simultainious track requests into sequential requests
      CRC.COM       - Computes a CRC value for a file (checksum saved to "CRC.LST")
      GETSEC.COM    - Saves sector data from a disk sector to a file
      HFORMAT.COM   - Performs a physical-level disk format, and marks bad sectors [=caution=]
      HOPTIMUM.COM  - Changes disks physical interleave [=caution=]
      HPERF.COM     - Tests disks seek and transfer rate
      HTEST.COM     - Tests disks ability to properly read and write data
      PUTSEC.COM    - Returns saved sector data in a file to a disk sector
      RELOCATE.COM  - Moves disk heads to a specified cylinder
      XFDISK.COM    - Creates and changes disks partition table



NOTE: Additonally you will need to use your operating systems disk format utility to 
format a drive partition in a file storage method useable by your operating system.  


An 80Mb PDF of the manual is available for download.