2024-12-23

Free disk Utilities

Free Disk Management Programs

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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.

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Free Compression, Split and ZIP programs

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HJ-Split (Freeware file splitter for a variety of platforms)
Why split files? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. Later on these chunks can be re-joined using HJSplit itself or HJJoin.

HJSplit is available for a large number of operating systems:Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Java, OS/2, Windows 3.x, MS DOS, Amiga. For the MAC there is a compatible file joiner available.

Freebyte ZIP
A powerful freeware ZIP program with full Windows user-interface. It can zip and unzip files, create new zip files, directly view and sort zip file contents, make self-extracting archives, password protect and encrypt files, etc. etc. Runs on windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP.

StuffIt
Mac file expander (program to open compressed files) for the MAC platform. Support for various file formats, like BinHex, MacBinary, zip, gzip, uu, tar. Lite version is freeware.

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Free Disk Catalogue Programs

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Catfish
Small, free and automatic disk inventory program for Windows. For people who can’t remember what they put on their ZIP disks, floppies or CD-roms! We use it at Freebyte.

Cathy
A similar program (not only in name) to Catfish. Has searching capabilities based on file name, date and size. Customizable date format. Found files can be opened directly, if they are present. Only contains a small single executable file, meaning that no installation is needed. Runs on Windows.

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