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[Giveaway] Disk Drill: File Recovery App That Lets You Undo Delete On Your Mac

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We last reviewed Disk Drill in 2010, when the app was still in its infancy and was free. Since then, the Disk Drill for Mac has added new features and introduced a pro version, in addition to a free one, of their file recovery app. The app isn’t just a recovery app; it also provides file protection for important files, letting you choose specific folders or drives to protect. Among the noteworthy new features is the deep scan algorithm that allows you to recover more files, Guaranteed Recovery, which allows you to undo the file delete action. The app can also search for partitions that you may have lost due to formatting. Read More

What Is Windows 8 Storage Spaces & How To Create Virtual Storage Pool

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Apart from Metro UI, ribbon-based Windows Explorer, Start Screen, fullscreen metro apps, and many other small performance-related changes, Windows 8 comes with an efficient large storage media management feature called Storage Spaces. Supporting the new Resilient File System, casually known as, ReFS, the Storage Spaces allows small and midsize businesses, as well as, home users to easily manage their large (very large) storage pools without having to install expensive devices to organize their data saved across the disks. The Storage Spaces is basically an expandable space that creates a virtual space/ disk of defined data size, allowing users to add as many physical drives as they want until the defined virtual disk’s limit is reached. This makes it easy to include additional storage devices without having to set up and manage each attached physical storage drive. Read More

Process Explorer Updated: Check App GPU & Disk Usage, Restart Services, Create Minidump & More

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Developed by Windows Sysinternals, Process Explorer is probably the most feature-rich Windows process explorer that gives in-depth information on each process running in the background. It also allows you to investigate that which application is accessing which files and system/user locations. Back in 2009, we covered numerous aspects of Process Explorer. Since then, it has been updated with quite a lot of new options and features, including svchost’s service host category display, option to restart service, mapping of service names to threads, ability to generate full and minidump process crash dump file, comprehensive network and disk monitoring, detailed memory statistics, separate column to check aggregate CPU usage,  summary tab in System Information dialog to view CPU, Memory, I/O and GPU usage graphs and more. Apart from significant feature improvements, the application has also been deeply debugged to give most accurate system information including CPU, Memory and Network usage, and overall system performance. Read More

XXCLONE: Backup System Volumes While Retaining Self Boot Functionality

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Backup for system volumes can be performed with a number of applications. However, retaining the self-booting functionality of a volume can be difficult to achieve using conventional tools. XXCLONE is an application for copying your system volume to another, while retaining self-booting functionality. Using this application, you can even boot your system from the clone volume by swapping the disks. This can be particularly useful for disaster recovery, when the primary volume may have become redundant. XXCLONE is capable of copying data to and from FAT and NTFS volumes. It even supports USB drives, PATA and SATA. You can perform periodic backups with XXCLONE, or opt for a one-time disk upgrade/migration. Since XXCLOE copies files and folders, therefore, you can remain logged into Windows during the cloning process and also perform other usual tasks on your PC. XXCLONE also provides additional tools for duplicating the Volume ID, to repair non-bootable disk, creating batch files, etc. Read More

Perform Sector-by-Sector Disk Cloning With HDD Raw Copy Tool

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Disk cloning tools are designed to transfer huge volume of data from one disk to another. You can however manually copy drive’s data to other drive but disk cloning tools ensure that data will not be lost during the transfer process. HDD Raw Copy Tool, unlike other tools which use Windows Volume Shadow Copy technology to clone disks, implements low-level sector-by-sector disk duplication of disk to assure that all the data on the disk will be transferred to defined location. In addition to applying robust copy mechanism, it supports a wide range of local and removable storage mediums, including, SATA, SCSI, SAS, USB, FIREWIRE, LBA-48, Flash Cards, SD/MMC, pen drives, SmartMedia, etc., while having the ability clone SSD drives manufactured by Intel, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital, Maxtor, Hitachi, and Kingston. Read More

Folder Size Checks Distribution Of Disk Space, Displays Different Charts

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Disk space usage analyzers are developed to quickly view all those folders and files which are taking big chunk of total disk space. Since it’s near impossible to check which folder or sub-folder contains hefty files manually, you must use an application which can instantly analyze specified disk paths for used space. Folder Size is not that much feature-rich compared to recently featured DiskFerret and rule-based DiskBoss, but takes a novel approach to analyze total disk space usage. It shows space usage of selected folder on dynamic Pie and Bar charts, making it easier for you to view heavy folders instead of reading space usage statistics off the screen. Contrasting to other disk analyzers, it focuses more on giving space usage details in different data size units, including, Bytes, KB, MB, and GB. This enables user to promptly find out smallest files without having to scroll down the space usage report in order to view tiny useless junk files. Read More

Disk LED Puts System Drive LED in Mac Menu Bar

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It often happens that suddenly a system stops responding, leaving users with no idea if the disk is running or something has ceased its working. Since Mac systems don’t have disk LED which can show the current disk activity, having a tiny application which can fill this void would certainly come handy. Disk LED is miniscule application which puts disk LED in Mac menu bar, so users can quickly check if disk is responding to requests or not. Disk LED can check the disk state in real time. Alternatively, you can customize the disk check update time and stretch the refresh interval rate to 1 second. By default, it checks only system disks but can be enabled for checking removable devices activity. Read More

RidNacs Analyzes Folder Disk Space Usage From Windows Context Menu

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Running out of disk space? Maybe, it’s time to check which folder in local drive is taking more space than expected. If you don’t rely on Windows native Disk Cleaner, go for a disk space usage analyzer to get an overview of folders used space, so you can delete the superfluous content from enormous sized folders. RidNacs is a one-click disk space analyzer which integrates with Windows right-click context menu, allowing you to analyze space consumed by any selected folder with a single click. It compiles an analysis report to review the used space of specified folders with an option to save report in HTML, CSV, TXT and XML format. It can also be used to verify space usage of remote locations in order to know which folders are taking space on server. Read More

DiskSavvy Analyzes NAS Storage Devices, Local And Network Disk Space

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Want to know which local or remote drives and folders are taking more space and analyze the disk space allocation report by variety of parameters? Try out DiskSavvy. It is an advanced disk space analysis tool with many features to give in-depth file/folder and drive space analysis report. In the past, we have featured some nice disk space analyzers with major focus was on performing quick analysis of specified locations with eye-candy UI, one prominent example is Disk Space Fan . DiskSavvy capitalizes more on giving user insight into the space which are being consumed by folders and drives. What sets it apart from previously covered tools is the fact that it can analyze disk space by several parameters, including, by Extension, File Size, Access Time, Modification Time, User Name, Type and so on, with an ability to generate report in both pie and bar chart to visually analyze disk space by any of selected parameter. DiskSavvy is also loaded with some useful plugins to create disk space classification report for performing simple operations like copy, move and delete folders quickly according to the consumed space. Read More

QwikMark – Test CPU Speed & FLOPS, RAM And Disk Transfer Rate

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Benchmarking tools help user in testing several internal and external peripherals of computer system. Finding one complete benchmark tool which can test all the hardware and software specific capacities is a bit difficult, as many benchmark tools come with a different set of tests and configurations. As far as system testing is concerned, you must not be worried about more than 3 computing abilities, which are, CPU speed, memory, and data transfer rate. QwikMark is developed to test these basic computer abilities. It enables you to check CPU speed, CPU Flops, Memory bandwidth and Disk transfer rate while showing information on CPU, Main memory, and GPU memory under one window. Read More

My Disc Collection Tracks Your Movies, Music, And TV Shows Collection

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Do you have enormous collection of movies, music, or TV shows which you want to keep track on? Users having such a large collection of disks will tell you how difficult it is to manage and keep track on them. In most cases, one forgets which disk was lend out to family or friends, making it further difficult to find it. My Disk Collection is a small application to keep track of your physical media which solves the exact problem mentioned above. It also allows you have a quick overview of your media collection. Read More

Windows 7 Advanced Disk Defragmentation

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The defragmentation process searches your disk partitions and makes sure that the stored files are in one contiguous piece which results in better system performance. If you want to maintain your file system then the easiest and perhaps the most important way is that you should routinely defrag your drives. Windows 7 has many added features in comparison to Windows Vista and XP, and one of them is the Advanced Disk Defragmentation feature. Just like Windows Vista, Windows 7 lets you easily perform common disk defragmentation tasks from the command line as well. In this post, we will take a look at how to perform advance disk defragmentation in Windows 7. Read More

Windows 7 Disk Defragmentation

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The defragmentation process searches your disk partitions and makes sure that the stored files are in one contiguous piece which results in better system performance. If you want to maintain your file system then the easiest and perhaps the most important way is that you should routinely defrag your drives. The windows 7 has improved disk defragmentation utility which gives users more control over defragmentation tasks. The most important features of Windows 7 defragmenter is that it lets you safely terminate the defrag process any time without any adverse effect and can defrag multiple volumes at the same time. Read More

How To Analyze Disk Usage In Ubuntu Linux

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Your hard disk is one of the most important resource in your system and proper analyses of disks lets your system run smoothly. There are many disk analysis tools and most operating systems has some by default too. Ubuntu has a default tool for disk usage analyses, called Disk Usage Analyzer. It details all available and used disk space, you can scan local and remote disks and can also view scan results graphically for a more clear picture. Read More

QQLabeler – Create Professional Optical Disk Labels

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QQlabeler is a free graphic tool to design and print optical disk labels. You can add objects and custom background to create a unique label. There are various design tools available, such as, Barcode, Line Tool, Background, Image Frame, and many others. These design tools can be accessed easily from the left sidebar. You can also set the Guideline/Grid easily and choose various unique colors for your fonts.

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Use Task Scheduler To Tweak Automatic Disk Defragmentation In Windows 7/Vista

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With Windows 7 / Vista many standard applications such as Windows Firewall got a face lift, the Disk Defragmenter interface changed to a dialog box with an added task scheduler support to schedule defragmentation of your hard drive. Since now it works on scheduled time, it automatically starts defragmenting as soon as the scheduled time is missed, which can cause disk thrashing and computer to slow down. Instead of letting Windows 7 /  Vista to decide when to start defragmentation you should decide when and how it should run. Read More

How To Check Your Hard Drive For Errors And Fix It

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If you are experiencing hard drive errors such as Read / Write errors and noisy sounds, its time to check your hard drive because these errors may effect the overall performance of your computer. Windows comes with built-in utilities to check hard drives, scanning your hard drive using Error Checking can help diagnose and even correct a wide range of hard drive errors. Hard drives that are formatted using the FAT32 file system should be checked for errors about once a month.

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6 Easy Ways To Free Your Computer’s Hard Disk Space When Using Windows

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Editor’s Note: After lot of comments from the users, I have now changed this post’s tile and made some changes in the content. And I will have to agree that saving hard disk space does not increase the computer’s performance. So my readers have won after a short protest :) Just kidding.

I will now(in a few days) write about how to increase performance that will in fact focus on two things, CPU and RAM.

Did you ever get tired of your hard disk that is always full? Do you want to increase space on your hard disk by removing any useless junk? There are many ways to speed up your computer without purchasing more memory or upgrading your CPU.The following easy steps are simple to follow and almost guaranteed to increase the hard disk space of your computer!

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