Best Windows Freeware » Hard Drive Tools

JDisk Report: Visualise your Hard Drive Usage

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:44:28 +0000

JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.

The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.

JDiskReport provides different perspectives about your disk drives: absolute and relative sizes, size distribution, distribution of modification dates, and distribution of types.

Each perspective includes a pie chart, a bar chart, and a details table. You can choose to either show the file size or the number of files. Also, JDiskReport collects a list of 100 largest, oldest, and newest files.

Homepage: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html
Direct Download: http://www.jgoodies.com/download/jdiskreport/jdiskreport-1_3_1-win.exe
Filesize: 600Kb

GSplit – Split your large files

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:29:38 +0000

GSplit is a file splitter that lets you split your large files (like Self-Extracting and Zip archives, multimedia, song, music, picture, document files…) into a set of smaller files called pieces.

These pieces are easier to copy to floppies, distribute over the Internet or through E-mail, share with friends or colleagues, archive to Zip disks or CDs.

The pieces can be easily combined, using the generated Self-Uniting Executable, that automatically restores the original file for you.

Features:

Split very large files, bigger than 4 GB
Two basic file splitting options: disk spanned or blocked
Make pieces Self-Uniting
Perform fast checks (size, offset, CRC32) in order to detect file corruption
Batch and command line options for automation
Multi-language support
Integrates with Windows Explorer to let you split your files directly from the context menu.

Video:

Homepage: http://www.gdgsoft.com/gsplit/index.aspx
Download: http://www.gdgsoft.com/download/gsplit.aspx
Filesize: 1.49Mb

Find & Delete Duplicate Files on your PC

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:38:14 +0000

Easy Duplicate File Finder is a free powerful tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC. Once duplicate files are located you can choose to move or delete them using the convenient user interface. Check out the list of features below;

Features:

Search for true duplicates (files with same contents)
Powerful search engine with fast files check
Full binary (byte-by-byte) comparison
Search files by masks
Size conditions & skip zero-length files option
Find duplicates from selected folders or drives
Add multiple folders/drives for scanning
Protect system files and folders
Move files to Recycle Bin or delete duplicate files permanently
Mark selected duplicates by renaming them
Duplicate file management – remove only unnecessary duplicates
Select files manually (for deletion) or use flexible selection options
Rename duplicate files with prefix/postfix
Move duplicate files to folder
Open folder containing selected file
Show file properties
Open file with associated program
Export list of duplicates to HTML document or to TXT file

Homepage: http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/
Download: http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/download.html
Filesize: 737Kb

Defraggler: Defragment your Hard Drive

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:23:38 +0000

Defraggler (from Piriform, creators of CCleaner and Recuva) differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive.

Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!

Most defragmentation tools only let you defrag the whole drive. Defraggler gives you the power to select individual files and folders to defrag. So you can get the job done in seconds, rather than waiting for the whole drive to complete. Of course if you want to defrag the whole drive Defraggler will let you do that too.

After analysis Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or many will highlight their location on the disk. Allowing you to visually see the location of files on the disk.

Homepage: http://www.defraggler.com/
Download: http://www.defraggler.com/download
Filesize: 579Kb

Recuva: Recover Accidentally Deleted Files

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:01:01 +0000

Recuva, from Piriform (makers of CCleaner), is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.

It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Homepage: http://www.recuva.com/
Download: http://www.recuva.com/download
Filesize: 2.24Mb

Swissknife: HDD Partitioning Freeware

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:56:44 +0000

Freeware Alternative for: Norton Partition Magic

If you are looking for an external hard disk drive solution that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife, from CompuApps Inc, does it for you. You can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process.

SwissKnife allows creation of FAT32 & NTFS partitions.
FAT16 option is provided for compatibility. Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go, Firewire®, SATA interfaces etc. Creates Fixed and Removable Disk Format types.

Features:

Formats faster than the OS (click on chart for details)
Allows change of cluster size during Full format or Quick Format
Divides a single hard drive into one or more partitions
Supports Hi-Speed USB, PCMCIA, SATA, SCSI, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives
Supports Fixed and Removable disk formats
Supports FAT, FAT32 & NTFS systems
Allows creation of a single partition of up to 2048GB of FAT32 or NTFS file systems.
Full format or Quick Format of existing partitions
Selective partitions can be modified for optimum flexibility

Homepage: http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
Download: http://tinyurl.com/3vsv9u (Download.com)
Filesize: 4.35Mb