: Functions like Secure Erase may be locked by Windows on startup. Running the program from a portable bootable UEFI drive is the best way to bypass these security lockdowns.
The attempts to repair bad sectors and optionally refresh slow sectors. The "refresh slow sectors" feature must be explicitly enabled, and users can define a threshold (default 150ms for multi-sector mode) above which a sector is treated as bad and revitalized. DRevitalize warns that refreshing slow sectors is a dangerous operation that should be applied with caution—sudden power loss during this process could result in severe data corruption. Drevitalize 4.10 Final Portable