TOC · Installation and Run

## System Requirements

Windows Linux MacOS DOS

### Common Requirements

- Drives: without significant hardware and firmware problems
  Attention! If a device has physical problems (disk is not accessible, there are input-ouput errors, extraneous sounds, slow performance, there was a hard drive hit, etc.) it is recommended to address to specialists - see the section Working with Failing Drives
- See Installation and Run for recommended OS environment and disk access issues
- CPU: Intel compatible (i486 and higher)
- 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)
- See also Issues and Limitations

### Windows

- Recommended OS version: Windows Vista and higher (see Installation and Run)
- 32-bit versions work in both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
- Administrator privileges (except for Windows 98/ME)
- Drives: supported by OS

### Linux

- OS: Latest Linux distributions with libc library
- 32-bit shared libraries to run 32-bit versions on 64-bit Linux (e.g. libc6-i386 package)
- Drives: supported by OS
- Superuser rights
- Root terminal or emulator (xterm, Konsole, Gnome-Terminal, etc.) for console version, or gtk2.0 library for GUI version
- utf-8 locale support

### MacOS

- OS: macOS 10.12+
- Administrator privileges
- Drives: supported by OS, see Installation and Run

### DOS

- OS: MS-DOS 5.0+ compatible
- Drives: supported by BIOS or supported by DOS (using ASPI drivers) or supporting ATA-interface (IDE or SATA). SATA disks must be switched to IDE-compatible mode in BIOS for direct ATA-access
- DOS Extender (file CWSDPMI.EXE © 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 © Haftman software)
- If you wish to use a mouse then mouse driver for DOS is required