AXSM Drive Utility

This software utility includes several functions for use with the AXS Memory Card Reader (AXS-CR1 and AXS-AR1/AR3).

• Displaying the status of an AXS-CR1 and AXS-AR1/AR3 drive and AXS Memory Card
• Fully formatting an AXS Memory Card
• Retrieving log data from an AXS Memory Card
• Updating the Firmware of AXS Memory Card
• Recovering the corrupted Clip-file of AXS Memory Card and PC

Additional Items in Ver. 3.5.0

• Support new version of AXS Memory Card Firmware (Win/Mac)
• Vulnerability fixes (Win)
• Support macOS Tahoe 26.2 (Mac)

Note: When installing on the Mac with Apple Silicon, it is necessary to change the Security Policy setting. See below for details.

System requirements

The AXSM Drive Software Ver. 3.5.0 has been tested under the following conditions.
Note: There are some limitations to be aware of when using Windows, so please refer to "About the Windows environment" at the end.
It is required to change security settings of a Mac with Apple Silicon when it is not yet done.
For more details, please reference the section of [How to install this software].

Operating system

• Windows 10 Pro 64bit 22H2 ESU *1
• Windows 11 Pro 64bit 25H2, 24H2
• macOS Sonoma 14.8.3 *2
• macOS Sequoia 15.7.3 *2
• macOS Tahoe 26.2 *2

1. *1 Need to purchase the Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 provided by Microsoft.
2. *2 Intel Mac and Mac products with Apple silicon are supported.

Memory

4GB or more

Free hard disk space

10GB or more

Note

"Recovering Clip" function is available for the corrupted Clip-files created on AXS-R5 firmware version 2.00 and later.
If an older version of AXSM Drive Utility is installed on Windows PC, please uninstall, restart the PC and then install the new version.
When using an AXS-CR1 Memory Card Reader with a PC running the Windows 7® Operating System, it is recommended to install the Windows 7 update program released by Microsoft®. Using AXSM Drive Utility Version 1.1 or later and a fully updated version of Windows 7 in combination, data transfer speed from the AXS-CR1 is improved.
For details, refer to the Release Notes.