Freeware: Erase Hard Drive

	Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser  License: Freeware
	Active@ KillDisk is a quality security application that destroys data permanently from any computer that can be started using a DOS floppy disk. Active@ KillDisk Professional conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. You can be sure that once you wipe a disk with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is destroyed forever. Author: LSoft Technologies Inc.| Date: 06-06-2003 | Size: 252 KB
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	VAIOSoft DriveEraser  License: Freeware
	Secure Data Clean up: DriveEraserâ„¢ permanently erases data from hard disks, removable media, partitions, files and folders. It is specifically designed to eliminate data that is no longer needed and should not be recovered by anyone else. When files are deleted from a disk on your computer through the operating system, the operating system (Windows 95/98/2000/Linux etc) does not erase the content of these files from the disk. It only deletes references to these files on the hard drive. Contents of the deleted files continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily restored using disk utilities. Major Functions Secure Erase hard/removable Disk Drives Secure Erase any selected partition Secure Erase files/folders Secure Erase Methods Create virtually any Custom Secure Erase rules Secure Data Clean up: DriveEraserâ„¢ permanently erases data from hard disks, removable media, partitions, files and folders. It is specifically designed to eliminate data that is no longer needed and should not be recovered by anyone else. When files are deleted from a disk on your computer through the operating system, the operating system (Windows 95/98/2000/Linux etc) does not erase the content of these files from the disk. It only deletes references to these files on the hard drive. Contents of the deleted files continue to be stored on the disk and can be easily restored using disk utilities. Major Functions Secure Erase hard/removable Disk Drives Secure Erase any selected partition Secure Erase files/folders Secure Erase Methods Create virtually any Custom Secure Erase rules Author: VAIOSoft, Inc| Date: 28-04-2004 | Size: 970 KB
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	Duplicate File Sweeper  License: Freeware
	Do you have too many duplicate files (such as photo and mp2 song files) inside your PC? Too bad, since it waste your valueable hard drive space. Don't buy a new hard drive yet, just use Duplicate File Sweeper and get up to 50% extra hard drive space. Duplicate File Sweeper designed to be a very easy to use tool. It will scan and analyze your entire hard drive or selected folder, and display its result within seconds or few minutes. You can then select which dupliacte files will be deleted. This software supports Windows XP and Vista, also can be used and distributed for free. Author: deleteduplicate.Com| Date: 08-03-2008 | Size: 927 KB
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	Free Wipe Wizard  License: Freeware
	Free Wipe Wizard is a complete software tool to erase existing files on your PC. Completely deletes private files of your disks. The utility wipes files using fast and safe erase algorithm. Only one file can be erase in a single procedure(One Mouse Click on a "Delete File" button). Any Data Recovery Software or Tool can't restore file content which been erased using Free Wipe Wizard - File Erase Tool. Free Wipe Wizard it's fully functional freeware tool which is distributed by GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. Free Wipe Wizard supports NTFS, NTFS 4, NTFS 5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems. Free Wipe Wizard supports Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Vista Free Wipe Wizard supports hard drives (HDD), digital cameras, floppy disks, Zip disks, Jaz disks, Smart Media Cards, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, MicroDrives, Secure Digital Cards, xD Picture Cards, Flash cards, PC Cards, Multimedia Cards, and any USB disks. Author: Data Recovery| Date: 01-05-2007 | Size: 524 KB
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	EaseUs Disk Copy  License: Freeware
	The EaseUs Disk Copy utility offers a very fast and easy way to copy all or part of a hard drive to another hard drive. Copy Utility to image hard drives. Use this to make a copy of a hard drive that DataRecoveryWizard scans slowly, has read errors, you suspect it is otherwise going bad or otherwise causes problems with Windows. EaseUs Disk Copy can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, and all of your vital data. Disk Copy can be used for backup, cloning, or Upgrading your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. Essential Utility for Disaster Recovery. Author: YIWO Tech Ltd| Date: 07-11-2005 | Size: 2084 KB
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	The Undelete Free Disk Wipe  License: Freeware
	The Undelete Free Disk Wipe data cleanup and file wipe tool, that allow you to completely wipe/ remove / delete / erase a selected files,on a disk (floppy disks, hard disks,logical drives, etc). Any Data Recovery Software or Tool can't restore file, if file have been erase using The Undelete Free Disk Wipe - Data File Wipe tool. The Undelete Free Disk Wipe are useful if you want to make it difficult for people to recover deleted data from your disk. Author: The Undelete| Date: 15-06-2006 | Size: 235 KB
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	HDDlife  License: Freeware
	Worried about hard drive failures? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. The system administrator can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives. HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory. The program is extremely straightforward - no fundamental knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed whatsoever. Zero failures during the last four years for the 100000 hard drives monitored! 100% FREE to download and try. Main Features:   • Controlling the health of your hard drives using the S. M. A. R. T. technology.   • Constantly monitoring the state of your hard drives in the background mode.   • Displaying the temperature of your hard drives.   • Disk free space info and monitoring.   • The full list of features. Author: BinarySense, Ltd.| Date: 1-51-2006 | Size: 6348 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly. Author: Heidi Computers Ltd| Date: 19-01-2003 | Size: 2654 KB
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	Virtual Drive Creator™  License: Freeware
	Create Virtual Drives from long paths, it's easy! Type the full path or browse to the path via the Drive and Folder Lists. Choose a drive letter from the “Available Virtual Drive Letters” list, Click [Add Virtual Drive] to create the virtual drive, or Double Click the letter. Make CD-ROMs obsolete, copy the contents of the CD-ROM to a folder on your Hard Drive and install it from there, then run the Virtual CD from your hard drive. Author: J. A. Associates| Date: 13-01-2003 | Size: 1871 KB
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	ProCypher Eraser  License: Freeware
	ProCypher - FREE File Eraser Software. Securely and permanently deletes your computer files of any type and size fast! It's fast, powerful, and easy to use! This is our best selling software program and is used by satisfied customers from all over the world. If you want the most powerful and sophisticated, yet easy to use file wiping application available - this is it! When you delete files using your operating system's delete function it does not actually remove those files and their data from your hard drive, it just makes the space those files take up available for other files to use in the future - it does not truly 'delete' (erase or wipe) the data from your hard drive and these 'deleted' files can be recovered using special software. ProCypher™ Eraser software application does truly 'delete' your files off your hard drives and all other forms of magnetic storage media including external hard drives and floppy disks by repeatedly wiping your drives magnetic media many times over with algorithms that exceed the United States Department of Defense DOD 5220.22-M specifications for permanently removing data from magnetic storage media (hard drives, floppy disks, etc.). You can be assured that the files and the data they contain that are removed from your computer using ProCypher™ Eraser can NEVER be recovered by any known means, even the file name is erased beyond recovery. Works with Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista. Visit www.procypher.com for more information and to see other products that we offer. Author: MySecureMessage.com Inc.| Date: 01-01-2007 | Size: 18145 KB
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	Free File Wipe  License: Freeware
	Recovery-review.com proudly presents a first freeware file wiper called Free File Wipe from a new line of handy freeware tools related to data recovery. Imagine situation when you must delete/erase some data or file forever. This can be some secure data about your accounts or passwords stored on hard, floppy or flash disk. But in fact, MS Windows (and other OS) doesn't delete data in secure way. They just marked deleted files in internal file allocation table as deleted and don't erase it physically. So this is why you can restore deleted files with uneraser. Of course, it's good news when you want to recovery some accidentally files or data, but, as noted above, it could be a trouble for you, if you want to delete something securely. But recovery-review.com has a solution for you! It's called Free File Wipe, the freeware file and data wiper with simply and user-friendly interface, but with good wiping algorithms. Free File Wipe allows you to delete/erase/wipe any file from any media easily and securely and none of the unerasers would bring it back. When you've deleted file with Free File Wipe it's gone forever. Enjoy this great tool for free Author: Recovery-Review.com| Date: 12-20-2006 | Size: 287 KB
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	Mareew Free Eraser  License: Freeware
	Ensure confidentiality of sensitive data by erasing files completely and securely. Did you know that simply deleting a file in Windows does not do anything to its content? Anyone can recover the files you deleted, and get unrestricted access to your confidential information and sensitive data by exploiting this fact. If you need any proof, just download any of the Mareew data recovery tools and scan your hard disk. You'll be surprised how many traces your deleted files have, and how easy and complete the recovery works! Free Eraser gets rid of sensitive information finally and completely. Scrupulously wiping the content of the files and meticulously messing up its metadata, Free Eraser makes erased files gone forever. Regain peace of mind by knowing that private data and sensitive information is securely deleted, and is completely unrecoverable. Free Eraser dares to guarantee that the contents of the files it erases cannot be restored even in FBI security labs. A cryptographically strong sequence of random data replaces the original file contents, making it absolutely impossible to retrieve the original information. By applying cryptographically strong algorithms of generating the white noise to replace actual data, Free Eraser guarantees that the files cannot be read even if your hard disk gets in hands of security professionals with a fully equipped data recovery lab. While anyone can claim that they used the strong and secure algorithms, we are ready to back our claims by releasing Free Eraser under the GNU General Public License. Mareew Company is renowned for its highly usable interface, and Free Eraser won’t disappoint. You’ll only need a couple of mouse clicks to get rid of a file forever! Not sure if it works for you? Technically, Free Eraser is a truly universal tool, supporting NTFS, NTFS 4 and 5, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems and working on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Vista. Author: File Recovery| Date: 12-11-2007 | Size: 360 KB
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	Eraser  License: Freeware
	Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Author: Sami Tolvanen| Date: 07-01-2002 | Size: 750 KB
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	Last Changed Files  License: Freeware
	"Last Changed Files" is freeware that will find the 100 files you changed most recently, on your hard drive or within one or more subdirectories that you specify. When you start "Last Changed Files", it automatically scans your hard drive and shows you the last 100 files changed, sorted chronologically in the order that they were changed. For each file, you will see the file name, full folder path, file size and date of last change. You can also scan another drive, directory, or subdirectory. "Last Changed Files" can scan a 200 GB hard drive in less than 30 seconds. You can also define an "exclude list" of folders that you don't want to scan. Author: File.net Windows Files| Date: 07-07-2007 | Size: 261 KB
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	CHAOS Shredder  License: Freeware
	Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT protect you at all. Your sensitive files can be recovered, even after you format your hard disk! When you delete a file from Windows, Windows just mark the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still on your hard disk, there are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even after you have formated the hard disk. Sensitive data can easily fall into the wrong hands. And because Windows is not capable of deleting information beyond recovery, you are at risk! Passwords, financial documents, even those "about last night" e-mails are fair game for the IT professionals, computer technicians or hackers. CHAOS Shredder allows you to purge, wipe and erase data with methods that far exceed US Department of Defense standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22). Author: Safe Soft Corporation| Date: 22-08-2004 | Size: 287 KB
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	Largest Files Finder  License: Freeware
	"Largest Files Finder" is freeware that will find the largest 100 files on your hard drive, or within one or more subdirectories that you specify. When you start "Largest Files Finder", it automatically scans your hard drive and shows you the 100 largest files, sorted from largest to smallest. For each file, you will see the file name, full folder path, file size and date of last change. If you need more free disk space, you can simply run "Largest Files Finder" and decide which files ton delete to gain more disk space. You can also scan another drive, directory, or subdirectory for the largest 100 files. "Largest Files Finder" can scan a 200 GB hard drive in only 60 seconds. Author: File.net Windows Files| Date: 07-07-2007 | Size: 263 KB
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	Ariolic Disk Scanner  License: Freeware
	Disk Scanner is a free tiny utility to check the hard drive for read errors. Disk read errors may be the first typical sign of the possible disk failure. Ariolic Disk Scanner makes a raw sector read check of the hard drive and shows the result as a picture of your disk, where the good and bad clusters marked, so you can see the status of your disk at a glance. Key Features:   * Ariolic Disk Scanner does not require a setup - it's portable. Run it directly from CD or a Flash drive.   * See the check result at a glance   * Works with hard drives, flash disks, CD, floppy   * Nice and simple user interface   * and many more... Author: Ariolic Software, Ltd.| Date: 22-02-2008 | Size: 417 KB
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	Easy Erase File Cleaner  License: Freeware
	Easy Erase File Cleaner is a simple file cleaning utility. Easily erase your termporary internet files, temp files, browser histories, and other personal information. With an option to perform at startup, Easy Erase File Cleaner also allows you to easily clear your documents menu and your start button run history. Author: EasyErase.com| Date: 10-07-2004 | Size: 335 KB
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	Disk Analyzer  License: Freeware
	See a chart of your hard drive to see what is taking up the most space with Disk Analyzer Disk Analyzer enables you to quickly see where your hard disk space is used. Any disk or folder can be show as a disk space usage tree view, providing a simple way to see how disk space is being used.Click on a tree node to view the info for that sub-folder. Very useful when you need to clear some space on your hard drive. Author: thePickApp| Date: 20-01-2008 | Size: 255 KB
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	Stats 2000  License: Freeware
	3D animated no-nags disk utility that will take boring hard drive statistics and spice them up using 3D animation. Tells you what kind of files are on the hard drive, the distribution of files by age and size. Also gives you the time of day that most files are used on your system. All 3D charts can be printed and manipulated. Author: Contact Plus Corporation| Date: 08-04-2003 | Size: 767 KB
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	Free Internet Eraser  License: Freeware
	Free Internet Eraser is an Internet privacy software that protects your Internet privacy by permanently erase internet history and past computer activities. Even though, many of the tasks can be performed manually, Free Internet Eraser can automate this process for you. Free Internet Eraser allows you to erase history, erase Internet history, internet cache, cookies, address bar search history of your browser, and Window's temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents and more. In addition, you can have Free Internet Eraser automatically clean your files when Windows is started or shutdown. Free Internet Eraser implements the US Department of Defense DOD 5220.22-M and NSA clearing and sanitizing standard, to gives you confidence that once deleted with Free Internet Eraser, your file data is gone forever and can not be recovered. Main Features of Internet Eraser:    Delete Internet Explorer Cache Files  Delete Internet Explorer Browser History  Delete Internet Explorer Cookies  Delete Internet Explorer Address Bar History  Delete Windows Recent Documents History  Delete Windows Start Menu Run/Find History  Delete Windows Open/Save History  Delete Windows Registry Streams  Delete Windows Clipboard  Delete Windows Recycle Bin  Delete Windows Temporary Files Directory  Delete Windows Wordpad Recent File List  Delete Windows MediaPlayer Recent File List  Secure delete files &folders  Scheduled Tasks & Windows Startup Manager  Free space on your Hard Drive!  Speed up your computer!  And much more... Author: PrivacyEraser Computing Inc.| Date: 18-06-2008 | Size: 852 KB
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	Disk Investigator  License: Freeware
	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. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Undelete previously deleted files. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Author: Kevin Solway| Date: 06-05-2006 | Size: 350 KB
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	MaxBlast 9.02M (2/15/98)  License: Freeware
	MaxBlast 3 is a one-step, ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility. MaxBlast 3 makes hard drive installations and upgrades hassle-free for novices and professionals alike by automatically identifying, partitioning, and formatting any Maxtor ATA hard drive, making it data-ready in minutes. MaxBlast 3 replaces all previous versions of MaxBlast and MaxBlast Plus. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 3.x Author: Maxtor Corp.| Date: 20-12-2002 | Size: 50 KB
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	MaxBlast 3  License: Freeware
	MaxBlast 3 is a one-step, ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility. MaxBlast 3 makes hard drive installations and upgrades hassle-free for novices and professionals alike by automatically identifying, partitioning, and formatting any Maxtor ATA hard drive, making it data-ready in minutes. MaxBlast 3 replaces all previous versions of MaxBlast and MaxBlast Plus. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Author: Maxtor Corp.| Date: 20-12-2002 | Size: 50 KB
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	Aopen 1551-AG1 Bios v R01.A0R  License: Freeware
	1. Do not support Set MAX command., 2. To fix the hard drive with low transfer rate under Windows system., 3. Add Toshiba Hard Drive in RCL. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Author: AOpen| Date: 24-01-2005 | Size: 50 KB
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	Aopen 1551-OG Bios v R01.A0R  License: Freeware
	1. Do not support Set MAX command., 2. To fix the hard drive with low transfer rate under Windows system., 3. Add Toshiba Hard Drive in RCL. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Author: AOpen| Date: 24-01-2005 | Size: 50 KB
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	Aopen 1551-AW1 Bios v R01.A0R  License: Freeware
	1. Do not support Set MAX command., 2. To fix the hard drive with low transfer rate under Windows system., 3. Add Toshiba Hard Drive in RCL. Before starting this driver installation we suggest you make sure you are installing the latest driver version available. Follow readme instructions/help file for installing drivers when available. Sometimes you need to restart your system for the new installed driver to become active. You can install this driver with the following operating system: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Author: AOpen| Date: 24-01-2005 | Size: 50 KB
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	Phantom CD  License: Freeware
	Phantom CD is a FREE virtual CD/DVD drive. Use disc images for your CD and DVD backup. Replace your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing your application and games to start and run faster. CD-R/RW, and DVD+-R/RW discs have a life span of two to five years. Optical discs commonly used for burning have a recording surface consisting of a layer of dye that can be damaged by heat. The degradation process can result in the data "shifting" on the surface and thus becoming unreadable to the laser beam. To avoid burning your CD's every few years, copy the CD and DVD's to ISO or BIN/CUE disc images to your hard drive. Hard drives have their limitations too. However, when you upgrade, it is much easier and faster to copy dozens or even hundreds of disc image files to a new hard drive than to burn dozens of new CD's. While the speed of computer processor still doubles every two years, we still have to suffer through the slow reading speed of the optical drives. They spin and buzz, and finally open the files we want. Want to open the next file? That's another round of waiting. Virtual discs give you up to 200 times the speed of an optical drive. Openning a file on a virtual disc is no different from openning a file on the hard drive. Use Phantom CD to mount ISO and BIN/CUE disc image files. It appears as a DVD or CD disc in Windows, and you use it as if it is a real CD/DVD drive. Author: Phantombility, Inc| Date: 06-05-2008 | Size: 2929 KB
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	ArcSet  License: Freeware
	ArcSet is a program used for clearing of Read Only Attributes on files copied off a CD-rom to Hard disc drive. It is handy for Audio files and magazine bundled CD content or Document archives copied from CD-rom to your hard disc drive that you will need to modify or delete later. Author: BirdCage Software| Date: 13-11-2001 | Size: 1 KB
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	HDD Temperature  License: Freeware
	There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always save? Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft. This utility comes in two versions - regular and pro. The regular version is intended for home users who have only single hard-drive and is totally free. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others. HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks. Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature. Author: PalickSoft| Date: 09-09-2004 | Size: 1929 KB
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