Hard Drive Freeware

• Custom Install  nLite Windows 2000/XP/2003 32/64bit installation Customizer. .NET 2.0 required.
• Custom Install  vLite Windows Vista Installation Customizer. Win Vista/2008/7.
• Custom Install  7Lite RT Se7en Lite is developed by Rockers Team to customize windows 7 operating system and to make it lite. You can add wallpapers, Icons, themes, integrate updates, drivers, language packs, applications, remove components, enable or disable features, unattended installation settings, bootable ISO and USB creator , etc. It will be very easy to operate and changing the style of your windows 7 operating system. Win 7 32/64 bit.
• Defrag  Puran Defrag is a powerful yet very simple disk defragmenter which will defrag the files and optimize your system, collecting all the fragments of a file and putting them together, as well as moving some frequently used files and all directories to faster disk areas. This process boosts your hard disk performance and thus overall system speed. In addition it reduces wear and tear on your hard disk, thereby increasing its life span. Puran Intelligent Optimizer - PIOZR, Directories Consolidation for speed boost, Automatic Defragmentation for worry free defrag, Boot Time Defragmentation for system files like MFT -pagefile - registry, Low Priority Defrag for work while defrag experience, Individual File/Folder Defrag for selective defrag, GUI and Console Command Line Defrag Supported, Restart/Shutdown After Boot Time Defragmentation, File/Folder Exclusion or exclusion by wildcard facility. Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 32/64bit.
• Defrag  Defraggler Defrag entire drives or select individual files and folders to defrag. Very fast. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7 32/64bit.
• Defrag File  WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates. Portable. Size: 800KB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Disk Cloning  RawCopy copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, Mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive. This program is designed to run under NT/XP/2000 or later operating systems. It will run under windows 95/98/Me operating systems but only windows logical drives can be copied.
• Erase Hard Drive  DiskWipe Roadkil's DiskWipe securely erases the entire contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank. Numerous passes can be performed to ensure data is totally unrecoverable. Program works on hard and floppy disks as well as USB/Flash drives. Portable single executable file. Size: 54KB. Win All.
• Erase Hard Drive  DBAN Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Health  HDDScan is a freeware utility for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays, Flash USB and SSD drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc. HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular "health test" for your drive and predicting its degradation, so you will be able to prevent data loss and backup your files before you will have to contact the data recovery service. Additionally, software can be used as the hard disk temperature monitor and reading/writing benchmark ֠performance graph is displayed for every test. Portable. Size: 4.7MB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Health  CrystalDiskInfo enables you to keep an eye on your hard drives' health in the background, providing you with a health rating based on its SMART status, as well as information about each drives temperature. What gives CrystalDiskMonitor the edge over similar products is the fact it can also monitor external USB and FireWire drives, so your essential backup device is also covered. Also Portable. Size: 2.5 MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. 32/64 bit.
• Health  SpeedFan Monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Health  HD Speed measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, CD/DVD-ROMs, flash cards/sticks, floppies, etc. Real-time graphical display. Select the drive and hit start. The read/write results show up as a graph and also as real values. An 80KB portable utility. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Health  HDTune Test your hard drives health, temperature, errors, and benchmark performance. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Partition  MiniTool Partition Wizard performs complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery. Size: 10.5MB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Partition  EASEUS Partition Manager As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Manager is a comprehensive hard disk partition management software for Windows 2000/2003 Server and Windows 2000/XP/Vista partition to Resize and Move, Create, Delete and Format, Hide and Unhide server and non server partitions and much more. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Partition  Partition Find and Mount Finds lost or deleted partitions by scanning the storage device and looking for specific signatures that represent the beginning of a partition. It does not rely on the information stored in the Master Boot Record (MBR), thus allowing you to find partitions even in case you repartition your drive. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Solid State Drives  SSD Tweaker With all the advice online for SSD hard drives (Solid State Drives) it can take hours of research and fiddling to properly setup your SSD drive. SSD Tweaker will do the task for you very quickly. You can select the tweaks to apply or use the auto-tweak button. Works with any SSD drive because it only tweaks your Windows registry. Requires .NET. Size: 243KB. Win 2K/XP/Vista/7 32/64bit.
• Virtual Machine  VirtualBox A family of powerful x86 general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware for enterprise as well as home use. The only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Virtual Machine  VmWare Run, share and evaluate pre-built applications and beta software in virtual machines. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Virtual Machine  EasyVMX Easy way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player (use with VMWare.) Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.