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January 27th, 2003, 09:20 PM
Shinma

Various DOWNLOADS
Various downloads - FREE

Frequently used utilities from Hard Disk Drive manufacturers:
- Fuji *Toshiba control as of October 2009
  Click HERE
- Hitachi * Hard disk drive division sold to Western Digital March 2011.
  Click HERE
- Quantum
  Click HERE
  NOTE: Maxtor control as of October 2000, use Maxtor's utility. Maxtor in turn purchased by Seagate 2005.
- Maxtor
  Click HERE
  NOTE: Purchased by Seagate in 2005.
- Samsung
  Click HERE
  * Hard disk drive division sold/complete to Seagate December 2011.
- Seagate
  Click HERE
- Western Digital
  Click HERE
- Delpart, Free partition(s) deletion utility
  Click HERE
- Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN"), Free HDD deletion utility
  Click HERE
- EASEUS Disk Copy, Free HDD cloning software
  Click HERE
- EASEUS Partition Master, Free partitioning utility
  Click HERE
- Eraser, Remove sensitive data from your hard drive
  Click HERE
- Sure Delete, Permanently delete data from a hard drive
  Click HERE
- TestDisk, Free tool to check and undelete partition
  Click HERE
- Ranish Partition Manager, Free partitioning utility
  Click HERE
- ULTIMATE BOOT CD, Free Bootable CD, HDD Utilities and Many More in 1 CD
  Click HERE
For system information/identification and diagnostics:
- Belarc Advisor,
  Hardware & software information retrieval & stress tester
  Click HERE
- CDCheck,
  Utility for the prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD-ROMs...
  Click HERE
- CPU-Z,
  Utility for the processor information retrieval...
  Click HERE
- Halfdone Unknown Devices,
  Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.
  Click HERE
- Memtest86+,
  Memory testing utility
  Click HERE.
- PC Wizard,
  Hardware & system information
  Click HERE
- PC Pitstop Disk Health
  Disk health test
- Prime 95
  Processor stress testing utility
- FutureMark
  Home of 3DMark03
- Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder,
  Product/CD key locator for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office 97, and Office XP.
  Click HERE
- SiSoft Sandra,
  Hardware & software information retrieval & stress tester
  Click HERE
- Speccy,
  Hardware & system information
  Click HERE
Synchronize your local PC time using the Internet
- AtomTime
  Click HERE
- Chronograph Lite
  Click HERE
- N.I.S.T. ITS
  Click HERE
Backup and restore article including links to free apps,
Click HERE
February 18th, 2003, 12:05 AM
bixster2002

Thanks... I'll see what I can find...
February 18th, 2003, 01:31 AM
Shinma

You're welcome and good luck.
May 9th, 2003, 11:16 AM
Shinma

Added to list. :)
May 9th, 2003, 03:00 PM
bmmiller

Make this a sticky??? Didn't this used to be a sticky?
May 9th, 2003, 03:35 PM
Shinma

Done.
May 9th, 2003, 06:17 PM
agw_01

Thank you Shinma :)

You can delete that other post by me now if you want... :) No point in leaving it there and taking up space ;)
May 10th, 2003, 10:18 AM
Shinma

Done.
May 29th, 2003, 02:34 PM
Dr. Data

A few more that I like are Flashget, rivatuner, spybot, adaware, and zonealarm.
May 30th, 2003, 09:04 PM
Leoslocks

How about rating this thread. . . or How to lose the Dell Deals sticky
May 30th, 2003, 09:05 PM
ris

sadly they be fixed until the ad-time expires :(
May 31st, 2003, 01:40 AM
Shinma

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr. Data
A few more that I like are Flashget, rivatuner, spybot, adaware, and zonealarm.

Hi there Dr. Data,
I believe those would fall into the Software forum.

or

Should we vote on that as well?
June 4th, 2003, 02:34 PM
Dvrgent Species

Some additional free suggestions:

Ranish Partition Manager:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Delpart (for deleteing FAT32 & NTFS partitions):

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm

There are some others, I will post later.

Mike
June 4th, 2003, 07:06 PM
Shinma

Done.
June 26th, 2003, 04:44 PM
Armaphage

TestDisk is a utility that will "check and undelete" partitions.

It's a nice little utility under the GNU license.
June 27th, 2003, 05:06 AM
Shinma

Added.
July 24th, 2003, 07:20 AM
Shinma

CDCheck added.
Courtesy of Ponch
August 15th, 2003, 05:20 AM
nihilistic

Oh, this could really help. I use a crappy seagate and it causes nothing but problems, maybe ill be able to fix it now, haha.
August 16th, 2003, 12:23 AM
Shinma

Good luck nihilistic.
December 9th, 2003, 01:34 PM
Martin_89

whats that program again that tells you your disk temperature? that would be a good one.
January 6th, 2004, 12:02 PM
K62

Quote:

Originally posted by Martin_89
whats that program again that tells you your disk temperature? that would be a good one.

harddrive temperature? MBM5 will do that, or the one I use is called "Dtemp"
May 26th, 2004, 11:46 AM
pisalace

Do any of these sights help get rid of Virtual Bouncer? I know there are some out there, but want to find one that will be trustworthy and actually work! I hate Pop Ups and Virtual Bouncer and Spyware!!! They make my computer time miserable!

Thanks for any suggestions!
pisalace
November 8th, 2004, 05:51 PM
SkySlash

Excellent thread!

Thanks!

-SS
March 29th, 2005, 05:04 PM
Professur

Most of the utilities mentionned in the first post can be obtained on a bootable CD called the UBCD (ultimate boot cd, not terribly original, but dang useful)
March 30th, 2005, 09:57 AM
Shinma

Links checked/edited.
June 8th, 2005, 06:01 PM
Shinma

Added CPU-Z.
September 25th, 2005, 07:26 AM
jaguarop

thanx great bundle ;)
September 25th, 2005, 07:30 AM
jaguarop

by the way if u have a bootable cd for NTFS file system plz give me the link,since as u know the normal bootable cd rom can't read the fat 32 file system and thanx
October 12th, 2005, 12:42 PM
gary_hend

Hi all

Great list you have there. Just wondering, how many of you actually meddle with disk utilities anymore? It used to be a very big thing back in the early 1990s when hard disks had to be partitioned and you had to install FAT32, Linux and what not in those hard disks.

These days, most of the kids I know who set up PCs couldn't care less about partitioning their hard disks. All they want is convenience. Pop in the hard drive, just use the dang HUGE 160GB C:\ drive and go!

Whatz more important to them is apparently things like a network cable and broadband access. I tell you the kids these days couldn't care less about how Partition Magic (what version is it now?) partitions the hard drive, how many bad sectors there are and how you can defragment to optimize the speed of accessing data, ....
November 4th, 2005, 12:54 AM
Shinma

?
Diagnostic disk utilities still used to check condition(s) of HDDs.
February 8th, 2006, 01:49 PM
Shinma

Maintenance.
Links edited/deleted accordingly.
February 11th, 2006, 05:31 PM
Shinma

Added DBAN link.
March 12th, 2006, 06:21 AM
Shinma

Added PC Wizard 2006.
December 8th, 2012, 04:31 PM
Joje

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dvrgent Species

Some additional free suggestions:

Ranish Partition Manager:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Delpart (for deleteing FAT32 & NTFS partitions):

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm

There are some others, I will post later.

Mike

thanks ^^