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Drive Health is a Windows program that helps you to estimate your hard disks Life Resource. This tool allows you to predict possible HDD failure and prevent losing the critical data. To estimate hard disk life our program uses special S.M.A.R.T. technology that is supported by the most of hard disk manufacturers. By implementing this technology the Drive Health provides access to the hard disk drives reliability monitoring, and keeps you informed about any potentially dangerous degradations of performance or reliability of your HDDs. The monitoring program eats minimum CPU and memory resources and can be run as a NT service.

SIGuardian Lite is the tool what allows you to control health of your hard drives and prevent data loss of failures. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern drives SIGuardian Lite estimate end date of hard drive lifetime, so you can make backup copy of all data.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Every time the hard-drive is started, it performs a self-checkup and records a certain value for each of its attributes (properties). The values range between 0 (non-functioning) to 250 (excellent condition). The average value for most attributes is 100. When the safety threshold is crossed (20 for most attributes), it means that a hard-drive is unstable and you should back up your data.
SIGuardian Lite combine power of modern technologies with easy-to-use interface and intended for beginners and home users. Protect your hard drive for cost only $15!

"Catalogue of disks" is intended for drawing up of the list CD-R/CD-RW/HDD/FDD/Audio-disc. The program allows to systematize the information on disks easily. The program can be applied not only houses, but also in shops of hire of disks, etc. Work with debtors, search on contents of disks and many other things is supported. There is an opportunity of viewing of video, listening of audiofiles, inserts of the staff from films in the description of a disk. As there is an automated gathering the information on a disk.

Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user.
You can use it to do a full check of the surface of any disks, for example if you have just scratched a disk and want to see if it is still readable, or if you want to check all your cd library for time or usage related faults. You can also use it for drive benchmarking, easily comparing speeds through 'X' speed multiplier factor, in real conditions. You can also scan hard drives or even floppies - and get real condition performance information accordingly with drive performance but also with the way data is stored on it, which obviously impacts on overall performance. Make sur you clean the CD or DVD before doing tests, to remove dirt and ensure tests are accurate. Freeware.

7tools Partition Imager 2005 affords everything you may need to backup your data. With the new backup-to-CD function you may be 100% SURE that, whatever happens, your documents and programs will be safe and within your reach. It also provides remote management over LAN through TCP/IP or IPX network protocols and allows you to backup, clone or split any partitions of your hard disk, even those unknown to the program.
7Tools Partition Imager can create backup images and place them on both local drives and removable media, such as ZIP, JAZ, MO, or network drives. It also includes the SID changing utility and can split the backup images (used automatically for removable medias).
Multicast option, included in the program, allows you to copy the partition/or disk image to a number of PCs across the network. It happens at the same time so it takes much less time than loading the image to each workstation.
New options make the program even more secure and convenient ? the fast-copying algorithm speeds up the copying process. (Partition Imager 2005 copies only the necessary data without using the operating system file I/O functions), sector-by-sector copy allows you to MIRROR your drive ? copy all sectors, even those that are marked as unused. You can even copy to damaged disks! Partition Imager 2005 automatically arranges data to avoid bad sectors, when copying to hard disks.

Express Burn is a free CD burner program for Windows. Burn audio, mp3 and data CDs and trial video and data DVD and Blu-ray burning. Seamlessly burn audio to CD to play on your computer, car or home stereo system converting many audio formats automatically.

Burn:
~ Data CDs (perfect for backup)
~ Audio CDs (for traditional CD player)
~ Mp3 CDs (larger capacity alternative to audio cds)

Features (Free):
~Records CD Recordable (CDR) and CD Re-recordable (CDRW) discs.
~Supports multisession CD recording.
~Support Joliet and CDA formats.
~Audio CDs are recorded with direct digital recording (so perfect audio quality is maintained). ~Audio CDs burning supports wav, mp3, wma, au, aiff, ra, ogg, flac, aac and a number of other audio file formats and automatically converts them to CDA.
~Can seamlessly burn audio CDs with no pause between tracks.
~Normalize audio while burning to disk.
~Data CDs are fully ISO compliant with Joliet extension.

Trial Features (14 Days)
~ Data DVDs (4.5GB+ plus version only)
~ Blu-Ray discs (25GB+ plus version only).
~Video files will be re-encoded and made in to a standard DVD Movie disk
~Manage chapters
~Choice of widescreen or standard formats for video dvd authoring.
~Record video files to PAL or NTSC
~Burn ISO compliant data DVDs and Blue-ray discs (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL).
~Includes command line operation for automation and integration with other programs.

There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one.
If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always save? Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft.
This utility comes in two versions - regular and pro. The regular version is intended for home users who have only single hard-drive and is totally free. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others.
HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks.
Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature.

Control hard disk temperature in real-time. HDD Temperature helps you prevent hard drive failures and associated data loss by giving an early warning about the disks overheating or being too cold. In case of a critical overheat, HDD Temperature can shut down the PC, while moderate overheating is dealt with email alerts. Get extended information about the disk, and see basic disk health statistics for all types of hard drives including IDE/PATA, SATA, SCSI, and USB disks.

HDD Temperature incorporates the results of researches in hard drive reliability, adding lower temperature thresholds to warn about disks being too cool as well as too hot. Statistically, newer hard drives are more sensitive to working temperatures being too low while older disks are more susceptible to higher working temperatures. HDD Temperature now protects against both temperature extremes.
Keep information safe and prevent data loss by controlling your disks' temperature and health status. HDD Temperature gathers and reports general health information of your hard disk, reporting possible issues well ahead of time. In case of a severely used disk with higher chances of failure, HDD Temperature advises about a replacement.

HDD Temperature is designed to keep overheating under control no matter whether or not a user is logged in to the system. Running as a system service, HDD Temperature can alert you or a network administrator by email or even go as far as shutting down the PC if more than a moderate overheating occurs.
System administrators can set up HDD Temperature with no user-accessible interface in service-only mode. Service operation ensures that HDD Temperature works without triggering any Vista's UAC prompts, does not require administrative privileges or a logged-in user.

HDD Temperature is not limited to thermal control, and reports all kinds of information about the disks, including the disk OEM, its exact model number and the number of hours the disk has been used.

Learn about HDD failure BEFORE it happens and save your valuable data. SIGuardian uses S.M.A.R.T technology built in every modern hard-drive to accurately predict the date when using a particular hard-drive is no longer safe.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Every time the hard-drive is started, it performs a self-checkup and records a certain value for each of its attributes (properties). The values range between 0 (non-functioning) to 250 (excellent condition). The average value for most attributes is 100. When the safety threshold is crossed (20 for most attributes), it means that a hard-drive is unstable and you should back up your data.
SIGuardian displays all HDD attribute values, whether they are safe and not, real-time. This tool is also capable of monitoring HDD temperature and alerting you over the network or via e-mail when overheating or failure possibility is diagnosed. You don?t have to monitor HDD condition ? the program can do it itself.
The program works in two modes. The first one is attribute check upon startup. In this mode, the program compares previous attribute values to the new ones and, if the are unchanged, automatically closes itself. Likewise, if SIGuardian discovers that some attribute value is lower, you will be alerted.
In the second mode, this software application is continuously running and checks for the attribute values periodically according to the user specified intervals.
While the program is simple and straightforward enough to be used by any computer user at home or office, SIGuardian comes with special features that make it an ideal tool for monitoring multiple hard-drives. The program is very easy to deploy over networks of any size. In addition, SIGuardian is capable of supplying other HDD information, such as standards supported, speed modes, current working mode, to name a few.
Download your FREE trial version and never worry about HDD failures again.

There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always safe? Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft.
HDD Temperature is a freeware intended for home users who have only single hard-drive. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, this tool checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can set the maximum value of drive temperature exceeding which will trigger an alarm.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by the HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others.
HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or to a certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force the overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data. You can also run this application as a network service, which makes this tool ideal for the corporate networks.
HDD Temp SCSI is a specialty version of the software that monitors SCSI server hard-drives and protects valuable data from getting damaged.
Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature.

DVD Copy Machine is a tool which provides almost all the possibilities of working with DVD files! Easy to use, friendly interface, useful features!

DVD Copy Machine allows you to:
*copy DVD movies to DVD+/-R(W) disks:
- from DVD to HDD
- from HDD to DVD
*split output video files
*burn CD/DVD-discs on the fly, automatically after ripping (write data on CD/DVD R/RW discs)

If you ever want to have many deferent functions just in one library.funtctions you love and hate, now you have it. What does it means?Many times you seen them, now you can use them. If you use C/C++,VB,Delphi,XBASE++ you can use ASFAN functions. We program them very carefully, so there is minimum parameters and most of them are of type LONG, INT, LPCSTR and LPSTR, and names are full descriptive. Serial communication is here, to support some basic communication with some devices connected to serial ports. If you want some cool effect like transparent window, transition, now you get it.Your application can set video mode, test and retrieve it. Controlling desktop including hiding desktop icons, START button, system clock and task bar if you need that. Shutting, rebooting, logoff from computer, monitor turn off, power down, or hibernate is also supported. Prevent screensaver from starting. Setting priority for your application or to part of it, so you can be sure that computer speed is all used. Blocking input to window if you like, when you don't want to allowed user to interrupt execution with keyboard or mouse activity.
If you need information for installed HDD you can get model,serial number and controller revision number for all installed IDE disks ), and you don't have to deal with privilege stuff.
If from any reason you want to know did computer is running in SAFE mode, or have debugger started, or debugging version of windows is installed, now you can detect it. If you need you can create new desktop and run extern application in it alone, and after that move back. Play system sounds, detect status of your window (is iconic, maximized, normal).Set and lock foreground window, draw control ..We use only win32 API and provide easy access for your application.That's why this library is so small in size but great in action.Check a list off functions, maybe you will find what you are looking for.In DEMO you will see only 20 in action of 100.

Software tool to monitor hard drives and logical disks activity. A small indicator on the screen will blink the same way as a hardware LED on a PC. A good replacement for the hardware HDD LED, especially when your pc case is not directly visible.
HddLed Indicator includes an All-in-One mode, where all drive activity is monitored on a single indicator. The program uses little system memory and CPU time. Additional modes provide indications using the keyboard ScrollLock LED and an icon in system notification area (tray).

DiskCheckup measures the performance and 'health' of your S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, Reporting Technology) enabled hard disk drive. It compares current hard disk drive (HDD) attributes to the TEC (Threshold Exceed Condition) values determined by the manufacturer of the HDD. It can track changes to the attributes over time and make a extrapolated 'prediction' as to the failure date of the HDD. The program can be configured to notify you when a TEC value has been exceeded, by a variety of methods including email.
DiskCheckup can be configured to use command-line parameters so that it can be integrated as part of a larger automated testing process. Alternatively, those users wishing to incorporate DiskCheckup's functionality into their own applications should consider the SMART DLL SDK Library. Contact PassMark Software for more details.
DiskCheckup is free for personal use and $US 15.00 per license for commercial use.

Recover lost and deleted images completely automatically! An easy step-by-step wizard recovers digital pictures lost or deleted from hard disks, digital cameras, memory cards and a variety of storage media in a quick and effortless manner. Deleted a photo from your computer or removed it from your digital camera? Magic Photo Recovery will scan the entire disk or memory card to locate and recover every picture you deleted. Formatted a memory card or repartitioned the entire hard drive? The tool recovers images from disks and flash cards even if they were repartitioned and reformatted several times. Magic PhotoRecovery restores images deleted from the Recycle Bin or lost after a system failure, reads pictures from formatted or corrupted memory cards, and can even recover digital pictures and RAW files directly from the camera!

The improved recovery algorithm carefully analyzes the entire disk or memory card, locates lost or deleted digital images, and restores them onto the same or different media. Thanks to the new recovery method, Magic Photo Recovery can recover digital pictures that no other program can even see! The recovery algorithm carefully analyzes the file system, the disk and the recoverable images in order to determine the original names and locations of files being recovered.

Magic Photo Recovery is quick and easy to use. The convenient wizard guides you through the recovery process in a step-by-step manner. In fact, you can even recover your pictures by just clicking a single button! No prior experience with data recovery, and no special skills or outstanding technical abilities are needed.

Convenience features include a full-features image browser and viewer, and the ability to filter recoverable images by their size, resolution or pixel dimensions. The free trial edition of Magic Photo Recovery features a complete full-size preview that allows you to see the recoverable files before you make a purchase decision.

HDD Temperature Enterprise is hard-drive temperature monitoring software for corporate networks and small businesses. This rather straightforward program is a must have utility for any company that is determined to have a ZERO risk of losing their data because of hard-drive overheating. There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. HDD Temperature Enterprise uses S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs to monitor temperature of hard-drives and gives system administrators real-time online access to this critical data in any location. When hard-drive temperature goes up, the program sends e-mail alerts or shuts down HDD in danger to prevent overheating. HDD Temperature Enterprise is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and the unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks. The client module is deployed over the network with Windows installer (.msi) and runs invisibly in the background.
Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature.

Cool Info FX is the number one system information, inventory, audit & diagnostic utility. It provides all the information you could ever need to know about your usage, hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Including CPUs, modems, BIOS, drives, graphic cards, drivers, DOS and Windows memory and more. Along with an easy to use graphical user interface, Cool Info XP allows for easy exporting to databases like SQL Server, Access and many other formats like XML and HTML. Multiple Cool Info clients can use the same central database to allow for a constant network inventory of the computers connected to that network. Administrators can view remote system information and perform a network inventory on the spot. Employers can view where their employees are visiting on the internet all from their local workstation. Users love it for the simplicity, Technicians love it for diagnostics, Accountants love it for its detail, Network Administrators love it for the automation, CEO's love it for the price. Tometa Software, www.tometasoftware.com

SensorsView is a utility, that monitors the temperature of your CPU, northbridge, motherboard, VGA and hard disks, as well as voltages and fan speeds (as supported by your motherboard).
It can alert you if the values reach a critical level, and also provide a complete overview of the measurements.
In addition, the program shows usage of CPU, physical memory, HDD, NIC (Network Inerface Connection).

Features:

? Support almost all monitoring chips and motherboards.
? Notification at critical values.
? You can set a threshold of concern and correction.
? Sending email.
? Graphs.
? Showing chosen parameter in the tray.
? Showing CPU usage.
? Showing physical memory usage.
? Showing HDD usage.
? Showing NIC usage.
? Auto-check for new versions.
? Log file for events and warning messages.

Not long time ago, Google presented their Google Desktop system. This freeware package builds a searchable index of your local files and allows you to search through them as you normally search for pages in Google. Google Desktop comes with a great sidebar. This floating panel includes such magnificent utilities as a headline news viewer, RSS and Atom monitor, Gmail and Outlook new mail notifiers, and more. Millions of users fell in love with it from the very first moment. So did I.

But, in fact, it was just the beginning. The real value of the Google sidebar is in its pluggable architecture. Software developers started to make even more tools that you can integrate into your Google Desktop. Let me tell you about one of these plug-ins...

Most Google Desktop tools are involved with the monitoring of on-line resources. However, you shouldn't forget about your own PC's health. Without a working hard drive, all remote resources will be totally inaccessible. HDDlife is a freeware plugin for Google Desktop that constantly monitors a vast range of your hard drive's parameters. By collecting statistical data from your drive operations, HDDlife can forecast hardware problems. It will alert you when your drive is close to a crash. This allows you to prevent the loss of your precious files. You will always know your drive's condition by taking a quick look at Google Sidebar. HDDlife draws green, yellow and red icons which indicate the condition of your drives at the moment.

Did you know that hard drives are quite sensitive to heat? A rise in temperature by 10 degrees may halve your drive's life expectancy. HDDlife helps you quickly diagnose heating problems and prolong the life of your hardware. In addition to the status icons for each drive shown on Google Sidebar, you will also see your hard drive temperature.

Did I mention that it is free? Yes, simply download and use it.

Bad CD Repair allows to copy files from bad CD or HDD. If your text or mp3 or any other type of file is corrupted then use Bad CD Repair to save it!

DriveSitter Pro is a deluxe hard disk drive (IDE) diagnostic and background monitoring tool. Based on the well proven S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology), it constantly analyzes up to 30 health aspects per HDD and optionally displays its temperature in the system tray.

DriveSitter Pro reliably detects and forecasts up to 70% of all sudden HDD crashes before they occur: You will be alerted of unhealthy conditions and imminent HDD crashes by various notifications ranging from simple message boxes over emails and network messages to the execution of user-defined files. This will give you the chance to react on hazardous HDD crashes before they happen, thus giving you precious time to save your important data. It protects you from sudden data loss!

DriveSitter Pro runs unnoticeable in the background and does not disturb you - even while playing state-of-the-art computer games. It uses scientific calculations that provide a minimum of false alarms for all forecasts.

Apart from that, DriveSitter Pro provides a vast amount of information on HDD internals and partitions, displays progression graphics and reports advanced descriptive statistics on the recorded data. Almost every information about a hard disk drive and the health status can be exported to voluminous HTML or plain text reports.

DriveSitter Pro features an automatic internet updater and very flexible options. The user interface is concise but elegant and the extensive program help is well structured with a handy searchable index.

DriveSitter Pro is a very useful tool - you should give it a try.

Worried about hard drive failures? Get HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.

S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. The system administrator can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives.

HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory. The program is extremely straightforward - no fundamental knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed whatsoever. Zero failures during the last four years for the 100000 hard drives monitored! 100% FREE to download and try.

HDDlife Notebook Edition monitors hard drive health and performance. It has been developed with the peculiarities of portable computers taken into account. Unique technologies make data information on the state of the hard drive highly precise and available at any moment. The JustNow instant measurement technology reflects the state of the hard drive as a percentage of a new drive. You can see this value right after you start the program. Another unique technology called AnywhereView makes drive performance indicators available from dialog boxes of any software application. These technologies provide clear and available information about the performance of the hard drive.

When HDDlife controls the work of the hard drive, it informs you about hard drive overheating or a decrease in its performance. It regularly measures the temperature and performance of the hard drive at the specified intervals. The state of the drive is displayed in the tray as a percentage of health and performance together with its temperature. The results of each check are displayed as a brief notification. Data about available disk space is also displayed there. Additional data about the drive, such as its total working time and structure, is available in the program window. HDDlife always keeps you informed about the state of the hard drive.

Besides displaying the current state of the drive, the program also gives recommendations on how to improve its work, when to back up data and prepare a replacement. In critical cases, it allows the user to automatically switch the system to the standby mode or to the power saving mode. It protects the system when it runs in the autonomous mode. When you control the system remotely, HDDlife can send messages with the results of the last check via the network or by e-mail. It will run in the background mode, regularly check the state of the hard drive and send reports to a remote computer.

HDDlife Notebook Edition monitors hard drive health and performance. It has been developed with the peculiarities of portable computers taken into account. Unique technologies make data information on the state of the hard drive highly precise and available at any moment. The JustNow instant measurement technology reflects the state of the hard drive as a percentage of a new drive. You can see this value right after you start the program. Another unique technology called AnywhereView makes drive performance indicators available from dialog boxes of any software application. These technologies provide clear and available information about the performance of the hard drive.

When HDDlife controls the work of the hard drive, it informs you about hard drive overheating or a decrease in its performance. It regularly measures the temperature and performance of the hard drive at the specified intervals. The state of the drive is displayed in the tray as a percentage of health and performance together with its temperature. The results of each check are displayed as a brief notification. Data about available disk space is also displayed there. Additional data about the drive, such as its total working time and structure, is available in the program window. HDDlife always keeps you informed about the state of the hard drive.

Besides displaying the current state of the drive, the program also gives recommendations on how to improve its work, when to back up data and prepare a replacement. In critical cases, it allows the user to automatically switch the system to the standby mode or to the power saving mode. It protects the system when it runs in the autonomous mode. When you control the system remotely, HDDlife can send messages with the results of the last check via the network or by e-mail. It will run in the background mode, regularly check the state of the hard drive and send reports to a remote computer.

HDDlife Pro provides advanced warning when hard drives are about to fail so users can take the necessary steps to protect or back up their valuable and irreplaceable files. This hard drive monitor software includes JustNow! ? technology so the hard drive's health can be monitored from the moment the computer starts up and AnywhereView ? which allows users to view the hard drive information in the existing Windows disk icons.
With the latter technology, users will always know at a glance how much hard drive space is available, if the hard drive is running hot, and more. Hard drive activity can be viewed through a system tray icon or through Windows Vista and Google gadgets that are included with the software.
The easy-to-use interface makes it easier for users to customize their warnings. Warnings can be sent via email or over the network, for example, so news of the problem can reach the right people quickly.
HDDlife Pro works with computers, laptops, notebook, and external USB hard drives, too. With HDDlife Pro users can also monitor the age of the hard drive, can tweak the energy consumption to make the computer more efficient, and can reduce the noise level by up to 15%.
This hard drive monitor is the only one on the market that is certified for Windows Vista and because it supports fourteen different languages the software can be used almost anywhere in the world. With a more affordable price tag, easier to use interface, and easier to access the vita data, HDDlife Pro offers many advantages over competing hard drive monitor programs.

ActiveSMART is an industry leading S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and failure prediction software for hard drives. It uses S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to monitor the health status of Hard Disk Drives, monitors the drives temperature, free space, bad blocks, read and write errors, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fails, using special algorithms.
Active SMART has several monitoring modes and is intended for both personal and extensive computer systems use. Various local and remote monitoring modes and alerting options are available.
Active SMART allows every hard drive in the system to be monitored 24 hours a day for faults, overheating or other hazardous factors that may lead to a crash. In case of error detection, there is a range of alerting options available: local (pop up messages, sound) and remote (e-mail or network messenger).
Use the same version of ActiveSMART on notebooks and desktop PC. It support power saving mode and save battery life.
No special technical skills are required in order to use Active SMART.

ActiveSMART is a universal protection and health monitoring for your hard drive.

FileRescue for NTFS is an easy-to-use, yet powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted files and folders. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, as well as those deleted after avoiding the Recycle Bin (Shift-Delete). It will also recover files deleted by virus attacks and software faults. 100% FREE to try.

FileRescue works under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. The program supports modern Windows file systems for hard drives: NTFS and NTFS 5.

FileRescue for FAT is an easy-to-use, but powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted files and folders. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, as well as those deleted after avoiding the Recycle Bin (Shift-Delete). It will also recover files deleted by virus attacks and software faults. 100% FREE to try.
FileRescue for FAT works under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems and supports FAT and FAT file systems for hard drives and flash memory.

Repair pc errors, clean and speed up your PC! New Utilities scan and repair the Windows registry, clean registry and hard drive, optimize your pc. Useful utilities for you - work with maximum performance! New Utilities is a set of system tools for each day: fix registry problems; clean registry; remove temporary files; restore deleted files; ensure personal privacy; startup list management; remove incorrect uninstall records; boost memory; processes management; Internet Explorer and Outlook Express tweaks and more.

Handy Backup is a complete, extensible automatic backup solution for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and 2008/2003 Server. Can perform full and incremental backup, synchronize files and folders; has presets to backup Outlook (including Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail), instant messengers data, E-mail, Windows registry, My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, as well as data and settings of other popular applications. Supports the widest range of storage media and can backup to CD-R/-RW, DVD, Blu-ray, HD DVD, USB, Flash, FireWire, FTP, LAN network, Hard Drive and Online. In addition to the core functionality, Handy Backup can be supplemented with advanced plug-ins which include: capability to back up to SFTP servers, hot backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server data, MS SQL Server database backup, IBM's DB2 data server backup, Oracle database backup, as well as backing up ODBC-compatible databases (such as MySQL) and Lotus Notes/Domino data. A special Disk Image function allows creating complete hard disk image backup - backup of an entire PC data through creation of a drive image (snapshot). The program has multiple backup options, such as on-the-fly ZIP64 compression, 128-bit blowfish encryption, running other programs before and after task execution, storing backups with timestamps, and other. Comprehensible Wizard-based user interface provides easy step-by-step adjustment of backup tasks. Handy Backup is very flexible in scheduling and administering: it can run as Windows service, supports command line interface, e-mail notification and logs generation. All users are entitled to free unlimited support via e-mail, phone or Skype. The software is proven to have superior performance and proudly carries the "Certified for Windows Vista" and "Works with Windows Server 2008" logos which guarantees that it satisfies all requirements of availability, reliability, security, and supportability.

Disk Password Protection 4.9: a comprehensive suite of hard-drive protection/access restriction tools. Protect your disk/partitions with a password, ban all reading/writing activity, limit launch of specified files to authorized personnel only, etc.
Disk Password Protection 4.9 offers users the option to choose what kind of protection they need.
First is the Boot Protection. When chosen, any unauthorized person will not be able to boot a computer without entering the correct password. The program also offers Partition Protection. Any person can chose to have one or several partitions where all confidential information is stored.
When protection is activated, the partition will be invisible to the operating system and the disk space taken up by sensitive data will appear as free disk space. The Low-Level Protection option allows users to blocks all attempts to read/write to/from the protected disk. The drive itself will appear as if it were just manufactured and is not formatted to perform any operations. This protection works only for ATA-compatible disks and must be activated in MS-DOS.

Protect your personal information when you sell, donate, or recycle your computer! DriveScrubber permanently erases hard drive data so that that your private information can never be recovered.

Erase the entire hard drive, or wipe just the free space on your hard drive to scrub file remnants while leaving the operating system and applications intact. DriveScrubber works within Windows, and cleans unwanted data from your primary hard drive or partition, your flash drive, your USB hard drive, and even your digital camera.

Deleting a file removes the reference to that file, but not the file itself. Space occupied by the file's data is marked as "free space," and unless the data is overwritten, it remains on the drive, as does the evidence of the source file.

Even reformatting a hard drive is not enough to erase the data on it. Formatting removes file allocation information, and it performs other housekeeping functions for data storage. But it does NOT erase data.

DriveScrubber cleans your drives above Department of Defense standards, ensuring that deleted files stay out of reach, and even shredding stubborn malware that cannot be removed by other methods. A single license of DriveScrubber can be used on up to 3 PCs.

FileRescue Professional is an easy-to-use yet powerful software utility designed to restore accidentally deleted files and folders. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, as well as those deleted bypassing the Recycle Bin (e.g. Shift-Delete). It will also recover files deleted due to virus attacks or software faults. 100% FREE to try.
FileRescue Pro works under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems and supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS 5 file systems.

Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. The value of information stored on an average computer hard drive often exceeds the value of the computer itself. But a hard drive is one of the most unreliable internal computer devices. When it crashes (which happens quite frequently), the stored information will be lost fully or partially. Subsequent information recovery is either not possible at all, or constitutes a very sophisticated and expensive procedure that can be performed by specialists only.

Modern hard drives support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) that was specially developed to detect upcoming disk failures. Using this technology Hard Drive Inspector can monitor the current state of various life-critical parameters describing a disk's reliability and performance. Hard Drive Inspector analyzes this data and warns the user if the parameters indicate a critical fall of disk reliability. Timely alert makes it possible to copy the data and replace an unreliable disk, thus preventing information loss.

Completely recover files and data from damaged hard drives with HDD Recovery Pro.

If you have lost information due to a hard drive failure, you may still be able to recover all your files and documents without knowing anything about file systems, partitions, FAT or NTFS volumes.

Recover lost data from your damaged hard drive yourself completely automatically! HDD Recovery Pro automates entire process of data recovery after your hard drive fails, or if you accidentally format it, or even if you simply delete a file or a folder.

Accidentally formatted a hard drive? No problem! HDD Recovery Pro will look for formatted partitions, scan and re-create their file structure, and let you choose files you want to salvage.

Not sure if your files can be recovered? The free version of HDD Recovery Pro shows you a Live Preview of your lost, deleted or corrupted office documents and pictures before you make a decision to recover one or another.

Thinking of priorities? HDD Recovery Pro does it, too! Prioritize the recovery of important office documents, ZIP and RAR archives and pictures before you start working on Windows and Office installations.

Even if your disk is completely inaccessible after a crash, HDD Recovery Pro scans your hard drive for damaged partitions to find and correct corrupted or damaged partition tables. You don`t have to be a computer technician or know anything at all about FAT or NTFS structures. HDD Recovery Pro does its job completely automatically, re-creating all necessary file system and directory structures. All you have to do is select files and folder you want to restore from a simple dialog box, and HDD Recovery Pro will do the rest.

HDD Recovery Pro recovers lost data in most common hard drive failures, including damaged or corrupted drives, inaccessible disks, damaged or corrupted partition tables and file systems. It restores deleted files and recovers data from formatted disks, flash cards and cameras.

Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. This edition has all the functionality of the Professional version, but also takes into account specific features of notebooks. The value of information stored on an average computer hard drive often exceeds the value of the computer itself. But a hard drive is one of the most unreliable internal computer devices. When it crashes (which happens quite frequently), the stored information will be lost fully or partially. Subsequent information recovery is either not possible at all, or constitutes a very sophisticated and expensive procedure that can be performed only by specialists.

Modern hard drives support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) that was specially developed to detect upcoming disk failures. Using this technology Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks can monitor the current state of various life-critical parameters describing a disk's reliability and performance. Hard Drive Inspector for Notebooks analyzes this data and warns the user if the parameters indicate a critical reduction of disk reliability. Timely alerts make it possible to copy the data and replace an unreliable disk, thus preventing information loss.

Express Burn is a free cd burning program for Windows that lets you create and record audio and data CDs under Windows.

With Express Burn you can record a data or audio discs quickly and easily by dragging the files you want onto the icon and clicking Burn CD. The software then does the rest, including converting the files if required. Express Burn is also the fastest CD/DVD writing program in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.

We make Express Burn free in the hope you will like it so much you will decide to upgrade to Express Burn Plus. Burn Plus includes Video DVD authoring, the ability to burn Data DVDs, HD-DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. It has advanced features like the ability to create and record ISO images and support for many more file formats (the basic version only supports wav and mp3 for audio discs).

Features

~ Data CDs (perfect for backup)
~ Audio CDs (for traditional CD player)
~ Mp3 CDs (larger capacity alternative to audio cds)
~ Data DVDs (4.5GB+ plus version only)
~ Blu-Ray discs (25GB+ plus version only).
Records CD Recordable (CDR) and CD Re-recordable (CDRW) discs.
Supports multisession CD recording.
Video DVD Authoring - video files will be re-encoded and made in to a standard DVD Movie disk (Plus version only)
Choice of widescreen or standard formats for video dvd authoring.
Record video files to PAL or NTSC
Express Burn Plus can burn ISO compliant data DVDs and Blue-ray discs (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL).
Can seamlessly burn audio CDs with no pause between tracks.
Support Joliet and CDA formats.
Audio CDs are recorded with direct digital recording (so perfect audio quality is maintained). Supports burning of wav, mp3, wma, au, aiff, ra, ogg, flac, aac and a number of other audio file formats.
Data CDs are fully ISO compliant with Joliet extension.
Includes command line operation for automation and integration with other programs.

HDD Capacity Restore is a freeware tool that allows you to restore full factory capacity of any hard drive. It recovers LBA48 modes, DCO and HPA. It does everything automatically: it extracts the factory capacity; then it restores the factory LBA48, HPA and DCO settings. We strongly recommend to re-power your computer before running this tool. That means completely power off your computer; then power on, start Windows and run the tool.

HDD Observer is a monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives.
HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them:
- Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature
- Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon
- Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation
- Defragment file system and registry
- Automatically and real-time find and remove un-needed files and registry values
- Windows XP/2003/Vista compatible
- Low memory usage
HDD Observer is not only a high technologic product - it is one of the most intelligent soft for hard drives monitoring. And this is because it has some unique technologies implemented by us especially for this program. One of them is SmartBehavior - a very complex behavior technology implemented in monitoring tools.
For example, if HDD temperature is near its critical value then HDD Observer begins to check it more frequently to exactly detect the time when the temperature will reach it's critical value. Evident - if critical value is reached, then HDD Observer will check HDDs with a lower frequency to release any system resources.
Another interesting feature is 'System Fragmentation Monitoring':
HDD Observer begins fragmentation check only when computer is idle, and all system resources are free.
In this case HDD Observer will check for fragmentation until will finish or the user will need any system resources. After check it informs the user about fragmentation level and can even defragment HD using its build-in defragmentation tools.
These and many other features make HDD Observer the most advanced HDD troubles monitoring and repairing program.

RamCleaner makes it easier than ever before to free up unused RAM, prevent crashes and increase performance. Are you tired of crashes, slow applications that run out of resources every 5 minutes? While using your PC, the executed programs and the used files are taking part of your RAM memory, progressively slowing down your equipment. RamCleaner can recover the leaked memory to make your system work as fast as it was at the beginning. RamCleaner will help you get the most out of your computer without being a Windows expert.
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Here's what RamCleaner will do for you:
<BR>* Increase The Speed of Your Computer
<BR>* Make Your RAM More Efficient
<BR>* Recover 100% of memory leaks
<BR>* Reduce Windows and Application Crashes
<BR>* Helps Stop Internet Explorer Freezing and Crashing
<BR>* Control running applications for better performance
<BR>* See exactly how much memory you have at all times

Magic Uneraser will help you restore any deleted file, including documents, photos, mp3 and ZIP files. These files could be lost after clearing the Recycle Bin, removal in a command line, formatting or at removal without using a Recycle Bin.
In addition to hard disks, the program supports any types of data carriers (USB-disks, mp3-players, digital chambers, cameras, flash-cards, memory cards of mobile phones etc.). The built in preliminary viewing allows you to look through file contents before its restoration.
No special skills needed. 100% free to try.
Supports all file systems: FAT12 / 16 / 32, NTFS (NT4) / NTFS 5 (2000, XP).
Magic Uneraser carefully scans the necessary disk, and finds deleted files and restores them. Also the product restores files from the deleted and formatted disks. You can use the program for restoration of files from spoilt diskettes. Thanks to a new analysis algorithm of a disk, the program restores even those files that other programs do not find!
The program interface is simple and similar to standard Windows Explorer. Thanks to it the product is very simple in work and understandable for any user - both skilled, and for the beginner.

How does HDD Scan and Repair 3.0 work?

1. A breakthrough of this program is that, without depending on BIOS, it can control read and write to the HDD directly, with high-speed, veracity, friendly interface and simple management; there will be an intuitionistic and intact report for the physical defective sectors created after the scanning. The continual defective sectors can be easily skipped; therefore the defective HDD will not get stuck.?.

2. There is a "Restorer" in this program which can restore the usual physical defective sectors by adding them into the G-list.

3. So, after you have this powerful freeware installed, all you have to do is to insert the bootable disk and have your target HDD connected correctly to you IDE slot. In minutes, you could start fixing the defective HDD using this powerful utility by pressing several keys.

Atrise FBI (Find Bad Information) is a tool to check your data CD/DVD, flash drive and a dying HDD for bad reading files (soft and true HDD bad blocks, wrong reading, faulty drive/cable, etc.

Atrise FBI shows a full path to the current checking file, so it is very useful to find bad files even if your computer get frozen. Simply write a full path to the bad file and restart your computer.

With Atrise FBI you can:
* Scan your files for soft bad blocks and true bad blocks;
* Get full file name path of the bad file even if the computer get not responding;
* Scan old CD/DVD for bad reading files;
* Scan USB flash drives for bad reading files;
* Scan any directory and filesystem device you can access from Windows.

Digital picture repair application restores lost images, photos from hard disk and USB drive lost in case of virus attack, accidental deletion or format. Image recovery program restores images from USB removable storage device even it was not recognized by computer. Picture repair program restores photos from all manufacturers (Jet flash, HP, Kodak, Seagate, Transcend, Nikon, Samsung, Konica, Kodak, Canon, Kingston, Panasonic and Sony) made hard disk and USB storage media. Photo undelete software recovers all types of pictures like jpg, jpeg, gif files. Free photo restoration utility efficiently works under the environment of windows 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista operating system installed desktop and laptop computer. Digital image repair software recovers pictures from all type of hard disk (ATA, SATA, SCSI, PATA) and removable USB drives (zip drives, pen drive, digital camera, jump drive, external mobile phone memory, multimedia card, secure digital card, compact flash, smart media, TransFlash card, memory stick etc). Digital still photo recovery tool retrieves pictures files from USB drives even it was not recognized as USB removable media by computer when it was connect. Free photo recovery program provide interactive graphical user interface for user to work easily without need of technical skill.
Features:
* Free digital image repair tool restores pictures from all major manufactures made USB drive and hard disk.
* Picture recovery application is easy to use for all levels (beginner to expert) of users without need of technical knowledge.
* Undelete photo software restores all file format pictures like JPG, GIF and JPEG etc.
* Digital picture repair utility provides both install and uninstall features.
* Software provides interactive graphical user interface with inbuilt help manual.

Burner software too complicated? Get power, simplicity and file backup too!


Many users are tired of over-complicated CD burning applications that are getting harder and harder to use. Sometimes you can waste most of your time just trying to find a function. RecordMax Burning Studio focuses on what you want: To burn discs quickly, easily, with maximum quality and minimum hassle. It includes everything you need to be able to do that. And it excludes everything that could get in the way.

What`s cool:

Burn files and folders on data CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs
Burn Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files
Burn Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)
Create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc images
Burn speed and other options can all be set automatically
Make copies from audio, video or data discs easily
Interactive troubleshooting assistant for solving hardware and media problems
Erase CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs/ DVD-RAM/ BD-REs
Integrated support for over 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray burners
... and much more!

NT Disk Viewer allows users to display hard-disk data by physical sectors (in hex-code or ascii). Sectors can be copied and exported to files. The software supports FAT and NTFS file systems. Really useful when doing a "low-level" disk investigation and verification the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. NT Disk Viewer designed for developers and technical specialist who need access to physical sectors of hard drive. Portable as it uses a single exe file, have a very simple, user-friendly interface.

See a chart of your hard drive to see what is taking up the most space with Disk Analyzer
Disk Analyzer enables you to quickly see where your hard disk space is used.

Any disk or folder can be show as a disk space usage tree view, providing a simple way to see how disk space is being used.Click on a tree node to view the info for that sub-folder.

Very useful when you need to clear some space on your hard drive.

Handy Backup Professional is an automatic backup software ideally suited for IT-professionals and advanced computer users. The utility is designed for operation under Windows Vista/2003/XP and 2008/2003 Server and proudly carries the Microsoft's "Certified for Windows Vista" logo. Features full and incremental PC backup, has numerous presets that let you backup Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, System Registry, E-mail, My Documents, Favorites, etc. Handy Backup Pro has free plug-ins that allow backing up Thunderbird, Photoshop and other popular applications. In addition to files-based backup, the program can make hard drive image backup which lets you image Windows, Linux, HPFS and other partitions. Hard disk imaging feature can be also used to clone hard drive or any partition of your choice. Handy Backup supports a wide choice of storage media and can backup to FTP/SFTP, CD/DVD, network, USB, Flash, FireWire and Online. Besides data backup and recovery, it can be used for PC sync purposes and synchronize folders and files between two locations. All tasks in Handy Backup are created through a comprehensible Task Wizard which provides easy data selection and step-by-step adjustment of backup options that include on the fly ZIP64 compression, 128-bit blowfish encryption, backup with timestamps, etc. The program has a very flexible scheduler and is easy in administering: it supports command line interface, e-mail notifications, and can run as Windows service. Besides the core functionality, Handy Backup Pro can be supplemented with paid plug-ins which include Microsoft Exchange backup, Oracle backup, MS SQL backup, Lotus Notes backup, ODBC database backup and DB2 backup. A rich set of features makes the application a perfect tool for backup and recovery of desktops, laptops and even business servers.

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a freeware disk utility that monitors the status of your hard drives and scan for bad sectors. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).
This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and notifies a user when a critical condition occurs. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk's health.
Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDDs.

Burner software too complicated? Get power, simplicity and file backup too!


Many users are tired of over-complicated CD burning applications that are getting harder and harder to use. Sometimes you can waste most of your time just trying to find a function. Cool Burning Studio focuses on what you want: To burn discs quickly, easily, with maximum quality and minimum hassle. It includes everything you need to be able to do that. And it excludes everything that could get in the way.

What's cool:

Burn files and folders on data CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs
Burn Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files
Burn Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)
Create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc images
Burn speed and other options can all be set automatically
Make copies from audio, video or data discs easily
Interactive troubleshooting assistant for solving hardware and media problems
Erase CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs/ DVD-RAM/ BD-REs
Integrated support for over 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray burners
... and much more!