Free Hard Disk Backup and Restore Software
Hard disk backup is the cheapest data recovery service. This fact is well known to IT experts and administrators, but ordinary computer users usually don’t care until it is too late. The importance of backups is properly understood only after some major failure and data loss. Computer systems are reliable but still can and do [...]
Free Hard Disk Imaging Software
Hard disk image (or partition image) is a file that contains all the data that is needed to recreate a particular disk or partition. Hard drive may be split into many partitions. Each partition has own file system andunder operating system it is visible as one disk. Disk or partition image is usually created for backup [...]
Free Partition Software – Hard Drive Partition Management
Hard drives are getting bigger and bigger. 1 TB of drive capacity and even more is reality and such drives are not expensive. This means that anyone working with a computer can afford huge disk space. To actually use a hard drive we have to make a partition and format it with one of the [...]
Free Hard Drive Eraser Software – Permanently Delete Files
Most computer users aren’t aware of the fact that deleted files are still present on the hard drive. Emptying the trash can or recycle bin does not delete the files. The files only become marked as deleted and used disk space is freed for other data. There are many excellent undelete tools that can recover [...]
Free Undelete Software – How To Retrieve Deleted Files
Unintentionally deleted files is one of the common problems. Most of us use trash can (or recycle bin in Windows). Each deleted file goes here and if we make a mistake we can easily undelete it. The file has only changed its location. However, if we empty the trash can then the file is deleted [...]
Hard Drive Monitoring With SpeedFan and SMART
S.M.A.R.T. or for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology was developed by major hard drive manufacturers like Western Digital, Seagate, IBM and many others. Now it is used by all manufacturers. This technology provides data that can be used to warn user if the hard drive is experiencing problems. This early warning provides enough time to [...]
SMART Monitor – Predict Hard Drive Failure
You can prevent expensive hard drive data recovery by creating backups regularly. You can also prevent damaging computer or disk and avoid file system corruption or deleted files by properly shutting down the operating system. But you can not prevent computer failure. It can happen because each of computer components can fail. And there is [...]