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Disktective
Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows. It allows you to find out the size, distribution and structure of used disk space.A folder/directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing thousands of files. Select any folder or disk and Disktective will create a report displaying the real sizes of all directories and all containing subdirectories.

FAT32 Formatter
Although the Fat32 file system supports volumes of up to 2TB (= 2000 Gigabytes), Windows only allows formatting FAT32 partitions when they are 32 gigabytes or smaller.This freeware and open-source “FAT32 Formatter” utility solves this problem by enabling you to format FAT32 drives and partitions of up to 2 TB.

FMT
Free format tools for floppies: 360kb, 720kb, 1.2mb, 1.44mb, 1.68mb & 1.72mb

IDE/ATA diagnostics utilities
Utilities for low level surface scans, detecting drive options, diagnosing IDE drives, detecting associations between physical and logical drives.

mkdosfs
A port of the Linux mkdosfs command line tool to Windows. It allows you to format FAT32 partitions also when they are larger than 32GB (Windows can only format FAT32 up to 32 Gb).

Partition Logic
A free hard disk partitioning program which can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can also copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Ranish PartitionManager
Freeware. Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk.

Hard Disk Repair

Free Disk Search Engines

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago01 mins

Hardisk Search & Stats
Very powerful freeware text-Search Engine for your harddisk. It enables you to conveniently search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously.

Harddisk Search & Stats is ideal for those who are handling text files, such as programmers, web developers, computer professionals, system managers and other demanding users.

Data Storage

RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter H)

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago03 mins

Host
Any computer system to which disks are attached and accessible for data storage and I/O.

Host adapter
A bus-based (PCI, EISA, ISA) hardware device, such as an add-in card or ASIC, that converts the timing and protocol of a host’s memory bus and an I/O bus.

Hot spare
RAID storage feature that allows a spare drive (or other component) to be configured for automatic (in contrast to hot-swap) replacement and reconstruction in the event of a disk failure. Users can remain on-line and continue to access data.

Hot Replacement of Disks
The design of all Mylex controllers allows for the replacement of failed hard disk drives without interruption of system service. In the event of a SCSI drive failure on a properly configured system (where the data redundancy features of the controller are used), the system generates a message to alert the system operator.

When a replacement drive becomes available, the system operator can remove the failed disk drive, install a new disk drive, and instruct the controller to “rebuild” the data on the new drive, all without interrupting system operations. Once the rebuild is complete, the controller will be brought back into a fault tolerant state. See also Hot Swap.Hot SpareA physical disk drive not part of a system drive that the controller can use to automatically rebuild a critical system drive. The hot spare drive must have at least as much capacity as the largest disk drive in the array or the rebuild may not start. See also Hot Standby and Standby Replacement of Disks.

Hot Standby
A redundant component in a fault tolerant storage system that has power applied and is ready to operate, but which does not perform its task as long as the primary component for which it is standing by is functioning properly. See also Hot Replacement of Disks and Hot Spare.

Data Storage

RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter G)

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago01 mins

Global Spare
An extra, physical disk drive placed in an array and used as a Hot Spare. A global spare automatically takes the place of a failed drive. See also Auto Swap.

Hard Disk Repair

HDD Repair Tools: PC 3000 VS HD Doctor Suite

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago7 years ago52 mins

1. HD Doctor Suite (SalvationDATA Technology, LLC. China)

SalvationDATA HD Doctor Drive Restoration Suite is an integrated hardware-software combined system that fixes firmware issues for drives of all major manufacturers and popular drive families.
By using HD Doctors and our software suite, you can have 50 percent more capability in data recovery, thus have 50 percent more business, which makes you “a professional”.

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2. PC 3000 Drive Restoration System (ACE Laboratory, Russia)

A drive restoration powerhouse developed by the data recovery experts at ACE Laboratory Russia, PC-3000 drive restoration system is the only system that fixes firmware issues for all hard disk drive manufacturers and virtually all drive families.
With PC-3000 drive restoration system, you can bring more drives back to life before you begin imaging and data retrieval.

Get More: PC 3000 System

Note: Whatever you are a PC 3000 System fans or a HD Doctor Suite user, If you are doing a job related to hdd repair or data recovery ,you should know both of them. They all provide great tools for hdd repair. When you are using either of them. You should compare it with the other one.

This page will help you make a better choice! If you have a different opition. Feel Free to tell me by your comment! Let’ s make it better useful!

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Free system backup softwares

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago01 mins

Freebyte Backup
Freebyte Backup is a very effective freeware backup program for Windows. It enables you to easily backup files from any amount of directories and sub-directories.

Freebyte Backup can backup all files, or a selection of files: you can filter according to file-date, file-type and even perform an incremental backup. Also: support for profiles.Small, simple to use, and simple to install (no dll’s!!).

Easeus Disk Copy
Free program which can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, data, lost files, and inaccessible data. It can be used for backup, cloning, your original small hard drive to a new larger drive.

TreePad X Enterprise
384 Gigabyte Personal Information Manager and Word Processor.Intuitive and versatile, including Website Generator, spellchecker, thesaurus, attachments, search engine, recycle bin, and much more!

Hard Disk Repair

Disk Imaging: Image by selective head(s)

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago02 mins

Drives presented for recovery sometimes have some heads or surfaces damaged (physical damage). The problem is severe enough for the drive to stop working in its native system. However, with the latest upgraded Data Compass DCEXP utility, it is possible now (before installation of MHA replacement) to create a copy of data using the remaining good surfaces or drive heads; small files can even be recovered directly.

What’s more, this procedure will also be essential in cases:

1. When the drive is having read instability problem: by reading the surfaces one by one, it greatly reduces the seek time & times, smoothes the reading of the data, thus in some cases the original “damaged” head or surface becomes available, and users will then have no need to perform a risky MHA replacement.

2. When users have only a donor MHA with some heads damaged also: we can use the native head to read the available data first and then replace it with the donor one for reading the available data; if these two MHAs happen to be a complement to each other (for example native MHA with head 1 damaged, and donor MHA happens to have head 1 remained good), even in fact we don’t have/use a good MHA at all, we can recover all the data on the drive.

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Free File & Document Converters

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM16 years ago12 years ago02 mins

Omniformat
Free document conversion utility for Windows, which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.

exe-eBook Creator
exe-eBook creator is a freeware ebook compiler for TreePad files. It enables you to create an executable (program) from a TreePad .tpd or .hjt file. This single “exe-file” contains the TreePad database as well as the TreePad Viewer program.

The advantage of an exe-eBook is that it can be distributed royalty-free as a single file, since both data and viewer program are contained inside the program. Furthermore, a TreePad exe-eBook runs directly without installing anything! exe-eBook creator can also compile password protected/encrypted TreePad files as exe-eBook. Additionally: exe-eBooks contain a search engine, an options screen, zoom function 10% – 1000%, history back/forward, etc.

An exe-eBook can contain plain text articles, formatted articles, images, tree node icons, hyperlinks.More information and download

Zamzar
Converts videos and other file formats online. It can converts files which are stored on your harddisk or convert files which are on the Internet (URLs).