TOC · Installation and Run

## System Requirements

### Common Requirements

- Drives: without significant physical damage.
  Attention! If there are physical problems (extraneous sounds, error messages, slow performance, etc.) it is recommended to appeal to specialists.
- To save/use results, reports, and settings a valid partition is required which is supported by the operating system (in particular, FAT partition is required to work in DOS/Win9x/ME).

### Windows 2K+ (2K/XP/Vista/7 and other)

- 32-bit versions work in both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
- Administrator privileges
- Drives: supported by OS
  Attention! To work with drives larger than 2 TB under Windows Vista/7/8 the most recent versions of controller drivers must be installed. To work with 128 GB and larger drives under Windows 2K/XP certain ServicePacks must be installed and LBA48 support must be switched on in the registers

### Windows 98/ME

- Drives: supported by OS
  Attention! Windows 9x/ME handles 128 GB and larger drives incorrectly unless special patches are installed. You may reload computer in MS-DOS mode and use DOS version to access drives via BIOS or ATA-interface

### DOS

- OS: MS-DOS 5.0+ compatible
- Drives: supported by BIOS or supporting ATA-interface (IDE or SATA)
  SATA disks must be switched to IDE-compatible mode in BIOS settings
- DOS Extender (file CWSDPMI.EXE ((c) 2000 CW Sandmann) in the software directory is enough)
- At least 200 kB of low memory free
- At least 64 MB of extended memory
- For extended name duplicates handling during data recovery long name driver is required (e.g., DOSLFN.COM (c) Haftman software)
- If you wish to use a mouse then mouse driver for DOS is required

### Linux

- OS: Latest Linux distributions with `libc` library
- Drives: supported by OS
- Superuser rights
- Root terminal or terminal emulator (xterm, Konsole, Gnome-Terminal, etc.)
- utf-8 locale support