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Hard disk tools
Hard disk tools manage, maintain and repair the storage drives that hold a computer's data, including traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). Because the drive holds the operating system and all files, keeping it healthy and correctly organised is essential, and a range of utilities exists to handle partitioning, copying, health checking and recovery.
Partitioning tools divide a drive into separate logical sections, each of which can hold a different file system or operating system. They can create, resize, move and delete partitions, often without losing the data already stored. Cloning and imaging utilities copy an entire drive or partition, either to another drive or into a single image file, which is used for backups and for transferring a system to a new disk. These tools are frequently run from bootable media so that the drive being copied is not in use.
For maintenance, SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) tools read the diagnostic data that modern drives keep about themselves, such as reallocated sectors and error counts, giving early warning of a drive that may be failing. Data-recovery programs attempt to retrieve files that have been deleted or lost from a damaged or formatted drive, while secure-erase tools overwrite data so it cannot be recovered before a drive is disposed of. Defragmentation tools reorganise files on traditional hard disks for faster access, though this is unnecessary for SSDs. Many of these utilities are available as freeware.
Frequently asked questions
- What is disk partitioning?
- It divides a drive into separate logical sections that can each hold a different file system or operating system, and tools can resize them without losing data.
- What does SMART monitoring tell me?
- It reads a drive's self-diagnostic data, such as error counts and reallocated sectors, giving early warning that a disk may be starting to fail.
- Can deleted files be recovered?
- Often yes, if the data has not yet been overwritten. Recovery tools scan the drive for traces of deleted files, though success is not guaranteed.
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File tools,
Miscellaneous,
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Multimedia:
Audio,
Blu-ray, CD, DVD Tools,
Graphics tools,
Media players,
MP3-MPEG4 software,
Video-DIVx |
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Networking:
Internet tools,
Networking,
Online tools-internet,
TCP/IP tools,
Wireless |
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tools:
Online tools |
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Security:
Safety
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Spyware
removal,
Virus
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Windows:
Windows,
Windows boot disks,
Windows tools |
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Hdisk tools  |
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Auslogics Disk Defrag
a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS |
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Crystaldiskinfo
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T. |
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DiskCheckup
allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive.
SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a
computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk
reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, the system administrator can
receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible
future failure of the hard drive |
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Disktective
With Disktective you can find out the real size of your directories and
distribution of used space inside them. Each directory may contain hundreds of
subdirectories each containing many files, zip file |
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Disk Investigator
Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard
disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents
by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors,
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Disk Slack Checker
See how much of your disk space is being wasted |
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Disk Speed
Performs disk speed test and provided details about how fast your disks can
transfer data. The information provided includes data transfer rate for linear
reads, random read transfer rate and the seek time of the drive |
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DiskView v2.21 DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you
to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which
file occupies it |
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Drive Info
View information about the disk drives attached to your computer |
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Fsutil a command-line utility that you can use to perform many FAT and NTFS
file system related tasks, such as managing reparse points, managing sparse
files, dismounting a volume, or extending a volume |
| Hard
disk tools |
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Hard drive diagnostics tools and utilities |
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HDClone
HDClone duplicates the content of harddisks. It copies from one disk to another on a physical level. Depending on
the sizes of the harddisks, a complete or only a partial image is created |
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HD Speed 1.5.2
HD Speed Measurement, zip
file |
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HD Tune HD
Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions: Benchmark:
measures the performance, Info: shows detailed information, Health: checks the
health status by using SMART, Error Scan: scans the surface for errors,
Temperature display |
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buster a disk image utility that can open, create, and extract ISO files |
| JkDefrag
4.0 Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment
and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic
and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies,
and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks |
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MBRWork
MBRWork is a utility to perform some common and uncommon tasks to the
MBR/EMBR/Sectors of a hard drive. It should only be used by power users who
understand how computers work, scroll down |
| Multi
boot primer in Dutch |
| Partition-recovery
boot sector repair, restore deleted FAT and NTFS logical drives, Backup MBR (Master Boot Record), partition table, boot sectors |
| Partition resizer |
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PC
INSPECTOR clone max hard drive copying program |
| PC INSPECTOR file recovery
a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems, finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased
or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system), recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available |
| Ram disk:
cenatek emulates as fully as possible the low-level functionality of a hard disk with system RAM. RAMDisk speeds up applications because RAM is much faster
than mechanical hard disks for storing and retrieving data. Applications that do a lot of reading and writing to storage, like database queries, will show the
most improvement with RAMDisk |
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SeaTools
SeaTools for Windows is a comprehensive, easy-to-use diagnostic tool that helps
you quickly determine the condition of the disc drive in your external hard
drive, desktop or notebook computer. It includes several tests that will examine
the physical media on your Seagate or Maxtor disc drive and any other
non-Seagate disc drive |
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SequoiaView
Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of
the space? When using conventional disk browsing tools, such as Windows
Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they
can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique
called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire
contents of your hard drive |
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TestDisk
tool to check and undelete partition, works with the following partitions: FAT12 FAT16 FAT32, Linux EXT2/EXT3, Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2), NTFS
(Windows NT/W2K/XP), BeFS (BeOS), UFS (BSD), netware |
| Undisker
a disk image utility that can open, create, and extract ISO files |
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Unstoppable copier
recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches
or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover
every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together |
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Virtual CloneDrive
Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however
it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be
mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and
used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive |
| WinDirStat
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft
Windows (all current variants) |
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XFDISK (Extended FDISK) eXtended FDisk, or short XFDisk, is a free DOS FDISK replacement that offers more comfort and comes with a bootmanager that allows
you to have more than one operating system installed on your hard disk. With XFDisk you can partition your hard disk or install and configure the bootmanager |
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