DriveGLEAM 1.11

Description: DriveGLEAM is a harddrive activity monitor application.

 DriveGLEAM is a harddrive activity indicator and also include built in extensions for monitoring CPU and memory load. It works by immitating the harddrive LED on screen. This is a very useful if your computer case is hidden (under the table) or on another physical location (remote desktop). DriveGLEAM features independent indicators for each drive or partition and allows you to monitor both read and write access. As a option

Partition Logic 0.71

Description: Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool.  It can create, delete, erase, format, defragment, resize, copy, and move partitions and modify their attributes.  It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Partition Logic is free software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  It is based on the Visopsys operating system.  It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

Partition Logic is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.

TrueCrypt 7.1

Description: TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).

DiskCryptor 1.0.7 Beta

Description: DiskCryptor is an open encryption solution that offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The fact of openess goes in sharp contrast with the current situation, where most of the software with comparable functionality is completely proprieatary, which makes it unacceptable to use for protection of confidential data.

Originally DiskCryptor was conceived as a replacement for DriveCrypt Plus Pack and PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE). Now, however, the aim of the development of the project is to create the best product in its category. Moreover, in the future, considerable effort will be devoted to the creation of detailed documentation, explaining the internal mechanics of the program, which would be the best confirmation and demonstration of its security.

Ainvo Disk Defrag 2.3.1

Description: Ainvo Disk Defrag is a small and very easy to use application that will automatically defragment your HDD. Thanks to it, thousands of people devote more time to what they really like.

Disk fragmentation slows down the operation of software. Start disk defragmentation using the "Disk defragmentation" link. If necessary, click the "Cancel" button and stop defragmentation.

HDClone 4.0.3

Description: HDClone creates physical or logical copies (clones) and file images of hard disks and other mass storage media. HDClone is a perfect tool for backups and copies of entire software or operating system installations. A special 'SafeRescue' mode makes HDClone an invaluable tool for rescuing defective hard disks and other media. HDClone works independent of partitioning scheme, file system, and operating system. It also works with proprietary formats which otherwise would be inaccessible.

DiskCheckup 3.0 (Build 1003)

Description: PassMark 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.

SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as 'Spin Up Time', the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the hard disk temperature.

DiskCheckup displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. If an attribute drops below its threshold, the drive cannot guarantee that it will be able to meet its specifications in the future.

Note that SMART attributes change slowly over time and are helpful attempts to diagnose the life span of a particular drive. DiskCheckup monitors these changes over a long period and predict the date (if available) of the Threshold Exceed Condition (TEC), which is displayed on the main window.

DiskCheckup also displays device information, such as the drive geometry, serial number, model number, media rotation rate, and supported features.

Publisher site: http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

Download size: 729 MB

Download link: http://www.passmark.com/ftp/diskcheckup.exe

HDDScan 3.2

Description: HDDScan is a freeware utility for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays and Flash USB drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.

HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular "fitness test" for your drive and predicting its degradation, so you will be able to prevent data loss and backup your files before you will have to contact the data recovery service.

Additionally, software can be used as the hard disk temperature monitor and reading/writing benchmark – performance graph is displayed for every test.

Capabilities and requirements:

Supported storage devices:
* IDE (ATA) and SATA HDD.
* SCSI (SAS) HDD.
* External USB drives and all major USB boxes (see Appendix A).
* FireWire or IEEE 1394 HDD (see Appendix A).
* RAID volumes made of ATA (IDE) / SATA / SCSI HDDs (surface tests only).
* USB Flash (pen drives) – surface tests only.

Storage device tests:
* Verification in linear mode – helps to determine if your drive needs data rescue, has recoverable errors or in its perfect shape.
* Reading in linear mode – simpler, but faster disk check.
* Erasing in linear mode.
* Reading in Butterfly mode (synthetic random read).

S.M.A.R.T.:
* Reading and analyzing SMART parameters from ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.
* Reading and analyzing Log Pages from SCSI HDD.
* SMART tests running on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.
* Temperature monitor for ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.


Additional features:
* Reading and analyzing identity information from ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.
* Changing AAM, APM, PM parameters on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire HDD.
* Reporting defect information on SCSI HDD.
* Spindle start/stop function on ATA/SATA/USB/FireWire/SCSI HDD.
* Reports can be saved in MHT format.
* Reports can be printed.
* Skins support.
* Command line support (NEW).

Publisher site:  http://hddscan.com/

Download size: 1.66 MB

Download link: http://hddscan.com/download/HDDScan-3.2.zip

Runscanner 2.0

Description: RunScanner is a freeware windows system utility which scans your system for all running programs, autostart locations, drivers, services and hijack points.
You can use Runscanner to detect changes and misconfigurations in your system caused by spyware, virusses or human errors.

Very comprehensive autostart list

•  Freeware.
•  Scanning of 100+ hijack locations, hosts file editor, process killer, online malware/whitelist analysis.
•  One executable, no installation required.
•  Backup / restore of deleted items.
•  Malware will find it harder than ever to hide.

Disk SpeedUp 1.0

Description: Disk SpeedUp is a totally free and extremely fast defragmentation tool to analyze, defrag and optimize disks for peak computer performance. It is safe without any toolbar/adware/spyware and easy to use with its intuitive interface.

It is an inevitable problem that disks will be accumulated and cluttered with data fragments due to daily frequent operations, such as installing/uninstalling of applications, peripherals, and file downloading/saving/deleting, which leads to PC slowdowns, hang ups, system errors and even crashes. Disk SpeedUp is designed to help users solve this problem in one or two clicks and optimize disk performance.

CheckDisk 1.10

Description site: CheckDisk is a powerful tool for searching and repairing disk errors. It is quite similar to the ScanDisk tool or chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems (Windows 2000 and higher. Possible with Vista and admin right). You can select either standard or full tests. The full test additionally performs a sector check. It is capable of finding bad sectors on your disk and marking them as such. The program works both with hard disks (including SCSI and RAID) and removable media. Work on CD too. With german manual. Multilangual: english,german and spanish.

Publisher site: http://www.paehl.de/cms/checkdisk

Download size: 366.37 MB

Download link: http://www.paehl.de/checkdisk.zip