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| Stellar Smart - Monitor Hard Drive Performance 2.2.1 |
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Stellar Smart is a utility that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk problems. The system is based on Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T). The hard disk's integrated controller works with various sensors to monitor various aspects of the drive's / disk's performance and determines from this information if the disk is behaving normally or not.
Released: 2006-07-04
License: $29.00
Publisher: Stellar Information Systems Ltd.
Language: English
Platform: Windows
Requirements: 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended), 5 MB of free space
Install: Install and Uninstall
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Buggy software Program has a poor user interface and is also very buggy.
Trying to select a hard drive to scan for bad sectors only results in selecting ONE, and...
Nice Program English: This is a very user friendly program easy to learn on and dose the Job
Icelandi: Gott forrit radlegg ykkur ad seakja tad
| O&O DiskStat Professional Edition 1 |
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O&O DiskStat is a high-power tool for analyzing the used disk space on your storage volumes. With an easy-to-use interface based on the design of the Windows Explorer, you can take a closer look at the file and folder structure of your internal and external drives. Through intuitive and beautiful graphical representations you will find out which files, file types and folders are taking up the most space.
Released: 2007-08-01
Last Updated: 2007-05-11
License: $29.95
Publisher: O&O Software GmbH
Language: English, German
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Intel Pentium II 400 MHz or equivalent, 256 MB RAM, VGA, Mouse, keyboard
Install: Install and Uninstall
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| O&O DriveLED 2.0 |
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The new O&O DriveLED permanently monitors the status of your hard disks in the background. With the help of S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), O&O DriveLED analyses internal information of your hard disks and warns you in case of upcoming problems.
O&O DriveLED also shows the status of your hard disks in the Windows task bar.
Released: 2007-08-01
License: $19.95
Publisher: O&O Software GmbH
Language: English, French, German, Spanish
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Intel® 486 processor, 16 MB RAM, 10 MB free disk space, VGA
Install: Install and Uninstall
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| Disk Recovery Wizard 1.6.1 |
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Disk recovery and file undelete made easy with a step-by-step wizard. Disk Recovery Wizard makes data recovery easily possible to anyone, and recovers damaged, corrupted and inaccessible disks even if you reformatted the hard drive three times in a raw! Fix damaged disks and corrupted partitions, recover files and data and undelete deleted files with a step-by-step recovery wizard.
Released: 2008-06-04
Last Updated: 2008-06-04
License: $139.95
Publisher: Data Recovery
Language: English
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Standart Win PC
Install: Install and Uninstall
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| Hard Disk Sentinel 2.40 |
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Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, temperature, health and performance for all hard disks. It uses a new concept to evaluate hard disk information to predict disk failures (more: http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart ). It can start different hardware tests of hard disks to diagnose and fix problems. DOS version can detect information about IDE/SATA hard disks on motherboard or external RAID cards.
Released: 2007-10-14
Last Updated: 2008-05-20
License: $23.00
Publisher: H.D.S. Hungary
Language: English, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Chinese (traditional), Portuguese-Brazil, Czech
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Hard disk (IDE/EIDE/Serial ATA/SCSI/USB)
Install: Install and Uninstall
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USB drive Nice software but only few information about USB HDD are possible.
Great product! Hey this program is fantastic - great help in solving my hard drive related nightmares!
Har Disk Sentinel ... Is a good tool do detect problens on your HD.
I did think have the best of my HD, but HD Sentinel has detected
that your lifetime is ending.
| Disk Checker 3.1 |
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Disk Checker is a full-featured disk diagnostics and repairs tool with backup ability. It includes two separate methods of disk checking. Disk Checker can read and write disk images compatible with files produced by other disk copy utilities (Diskcopy, WinImage, DiskDupe, etc), including burning CD-ROM image .ISO files. Command line, logging and dedicated item in Windows shell context menu are supported.
License: $19.95
Publisher: RS Software Lab
Language: English
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Any PC's
Install: Install and Uninstall
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very useful tool Unexperienced laptop user. Managed to finally repair my ill-behaving WD 750 GB disk. Wasn't straightforward, probably (at least partly) due to my...
Usb drive. Usb hdd not supported so it was useless for me.
Did exactly what it said on the tin Fairly easy to use, and has different options for different storage types.
Disk checker I have a flaky disk and the checker told me what I already know. I have not yet figured out how it can fix anything wrong. It tells me what is...
A mac vresion would be great would buy if i wasnt switching to a mac, too many bugs in windows
| Paragon Drive Backup Personal 8.5 |
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Windows Vista compatible version of Paragon Drive Backup creates a backup image of entire hard disk, including operating system with all user preferences and settings, applications and data files. Paragon Hot Backup technology allows to perform real-time hard disk imaging backup without Windows reboot or any application's interruption. You can completely restore operating system with no reinstallations required.
Released: 2007-10-19
Last Updated: 2007-11-28
License: $49.95
Publisher: Paragon Software Group
Language: English, French, German
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Pentium 233Mhz and higher; 128 MB RAM; 40Mb Disk Space
Install: Install and Uninstall
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Ease of use excellnt This software is very easy to use, if your a numty like me. Luckily I havn't had to use a back up to restore from a crash, so I can't say how well...
Paragon Drive Backup Personal 8 worked for me I thank this is a very good backup program . I wanted to try it before I bought it to see if it would work on a new large 320gb Seagate Barracuda...
| CompuApps DriveSMART for MAC OS X V1.02 |
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DriveSMART is an essential tool to report the health of your hard disk drive and can be used in tandem with CompuApps DriveWizard to save the contents of your hard disk drive before it crashes! DriveSMART utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is to detect and anticipate any problems that are about to occur on your hard disk, in a timely manner allowing you to save your precious data.
Released: 2006-03-31
Last Updated: 2008-04-02
License: Freeware
Publisher: CompuApps, Inc
Language: English
Requirements: MAC 10.2 or above
Install: Install and Uninstall
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Doesnt work under Leopard Unfortunately i couldn't get this program to operate in OSX Leopard and so I'm unable to rate it
| CompuApps DriveSMART V1 V1.10 |
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DriveSMART is an essential tool to report the health of your hard disk drive and can be used in tandem with CompuApps DriveWizard to save the contents of your hard disk drive before it crashes! DriveSMART utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is to detect and anticipate any problems that are about to occur on your hard disk, in a timely manner allowing you to save your precious data.
Released: 2006-03-31
Last Updated: 2008-04-02
License: Freeware
Publisher: CompuApps, Inc
Language: English
Platform: Windows
Requirements: pentimun system with 32MB RAM and 10MB Free disk space
Install: Install and Uninstall
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DriveSmart Program gives a summary of the health of the hard drive. May alert to imminent failure. We have a lot of older machines on which I am using it. It...
An error. It is a good product, I like it.
But I found an error of this program: I set enable critical temperature warning at 40C.
But when my...
Cool Little App, Great to come across a little app that can help me monitor my drives. Suspected something was wrong with them and think they might have been...
Suggestion When the temperature threshold is crossed, there needs to be more of a notification, maybe change the systray icon color to red, or add an...
Second Time User The first time, the software was causing my machine to lock up. I've repartitioned my 1 physical drive as 1 logical drive, and it seems to be working...
| Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.11 |
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Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it's absolutely FREE.
License: Freeware
Publisher: AusLogics, Inc
Language: English
Platform: Windows
Requirements: Pentium Proccessor, 32 MB RAM, 10 MB HDD
Install: Install and Uninstall
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Trying the program. Works great, I like it and will recommend it to others.
Good !! Thanking you for allowing me to try and run freely of your Auslogics Disk Defrag. Its works perfectly for my system, and I would like to recommend...
Disk Defrag Your disk defrag program is excellent when used on Vista, did a defrag in less than 5 minutes,far superior to the Microsoft product,and one can run...
Worked great. Helped clean up my 'home' windows 2000 server. Thanks.
defrag delight Your program worked exceptionally quick with minimal system resources. I had some serious problems trying to download it from download.com but it was...
Best thing since Norton Commander I have been using this product for a while now, and I find it really does what says on the box.
Not many products do that.
Excellent Defrager The best defrager I have found. Like the graphic that shows what is happening. MS left this out of the Vista version.
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