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3.2 Compatibility

HDShredder has been developed for the hardware listed in 3.1 Overview and has been

tested on a multiplicity of according devices. HDShredder also works well with many other

devices. You may use the Free Edition of HDShredder to easily check out in advance and for

free whether the device in question is supported (3.2.1 Compatibility test).

3.2.1 Compatibility test

You can use the Free Edition of HDShredder to find out easily if your drives as well as the asso-

ciated controllers are supported properly, even if a higher edition is required to use them with

HDShredder. For this purpose, simply start HDShredder Free Edition on the respective PC,

chose drive deletion and move on to the drive selection screen (5.6 Selecting the deletion

area QV). All drives displayed there as well as the associated controllers have been recognized

by HDShredder and are supported by one of the available editions. Which edition will be ne-

cessary to utilize a certain device type can be seen from the info box at the right side of the

list box when you select the regarding drive (5.7.4 Information on the drive).

Note: Please ensure that you connect the needed USB devices before starting the program

to ensure that they are recognized correctly (5.1 Preliminary steps).

3.2.2 Standards

To be able to support as many devices as possible, HDShredder implements the effective

standards for the appropriate device types. Device support in HDShredder primarily refers to

the standards applicable to the appropriate device type. In addition, we perform extensive

tests with each device type. Those test also reveal that there is a number of devices, which

themselves implement their respective standard only insufficiently or even inaccurately. Fur-

thermore, it is possible that some problems occur in certain hardware configurations, usually in

certain combinations of controller and device. If possible, HDShredder tries to support even

such devices and to bypass the according deficiencies of the hardware. However, these kinds

of problems can not always be bypassed. Hence even extensive tests cannot completely pre-

vent that a problem appears in your special hardware configuration. In most cases this can be

solved by setting the options appropriately (5.9 Selecting the options and 7 Troubleshoot-

ing). Otherwise, our support team (8.5 Support) will assist you to solve the problem.

3.3 IDE/ATA/SATA

In principle, HDShredder supports all IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks. A necessary precondition is, that

they are connected to one of the IDE/ATA/SATA controllers supported by HDShredder

(3.3.1 IDE/ATA controllers and 3.3.2 SATA/SATA-II controllers).

3.3.1 IDE/ATA controllers

HDShredder supports standard IDE controller (ISA) and PCI IDE controller. These may be (in-

ternal) onboard controllers as well as (external) PCI/ISA adapter cards. In case of ISA/Standard