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This one file, portable app appears to be developed by a Russian disk recovery company. It has several hard to find capabilities that might interest folks, but one rather obscure feature is what attracted me... it gives you the VID and PID for flash drives. From time to time I've had Windows decide it didn't like a USB stick, though it would still work fine on another PC. And usually deleting it from the registry restores normal operation. But it can be a huge hassle finding out which registry entries go with that one USB stick. This might help.
Supported hardware:USB, NVMe, SATA, and PATA controllers
Hard drives (HDD) and SSDs (SATA / NVMe)
External USB drives
USB flash drives and memory cards
DDR4 and DDR5 RAMDiagnostics:
Viewing the logical structure of a drive
Display disk parameters (number of LBAs, sector size, fw version, rpm, etc.)
View Seagate FARM SMART attributes and logs
Determining the presence of HPA (Host Protected Area) and ATA password
Identification of the internal model of external HDDs (bypassing the USB bridge)
Determining SMR and TRIM support for USB HDDs
Output VID and PID for flash drives and microcontroller information
Reading and outputting the ID NAND microcontroller technocommand
Identifying Microsoft Storage Space member drivesTesting:
Surface Test: Full scan for bad sectors (bad blocks)
Counterfeit Check: Detecting Flash Drives with Fake Capacity
Benchmark: Measuring average reading speedRepair:
Quick Erase: Forces a full MBR reset to completely fix any logical issues with your drive.
Bad Block Correction: Full sector-by-sector writing to correct soft-bad blocks or initialize the built-in defect replacement function where possible
Reading and troubleshooting DDR4 and DDR5 memory SPD dumps *Backup:
Reading and writing sector-by-sector disk images without modification (*.bin)
Creating VHD/VHDX dynamic images and deploying them to a physical disk
Creating a partition (volume) image
Disk-to-disk cloning
Opening an image file in the built-in explorer with the option to export files and folders from itData recovery:
Recover deleted or lost files with the "smart save" feature *
Analysis and collection of statistics on disks and images infected with ransomware *
Automatic assembly of RAID arrays (Stripe, Mirror, Raid-5, Raid-6) from disks or images *
Search for video recordings on disks or images from DVR recorders *
Viewing and editing HEX contents of sectors
Recover damaged MBR/GPT records for lost or deleted partitions
View and copy files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT, Linux (Ext2/3/4), Mac (HFS+ and APFS), BTRFS, XFS, VMFS, Bitlocker, LVM partitions