Hardware Requirements
Pentium or compatible CPU
64 megabytes of system memory
30 megabytes of hard disk space
One or more hard disk, solid state disk, hybrid drive (SSHD) with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II/SATA 6G), SCSI, SAS, USB, NVMe interface.
See Hardware compatibility pages for supported hard disk drives, SSD models, disk controllers and external hard disks / enclosures / adapters.
Other type of external disks (IEEE 1394 or used in NAS enclosures and connected via Ethernet) are NOT supported because the hard disk controller chip in the external enclosure does not support the detection of hard disk status (S.M.A.R.T.) information

Software Requirements
Windows operating system: Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, Windows 2012, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 both 32 and 64 bit versions (where applicable)
System administrator account (in service mode, it is possible to use without administrator rights and without even user logged in)