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Friday, June 1, 2012

Hard Disk Drive Diagnostics


MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level hard-disk-drive diagnostics. -
Note that Maxtor and Quantum drives use SeaTools (above).
Western Digital - Data Lifeguardhttp://support.wdc.com/download/
Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Testhttp://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Note well that if such a utility is used on a faulty system (suffering from bad RAM, an inadequate power supply unit, a faulty motherboard, etc.) it could produce unreliable results.
DiskInternals UK - do it yourself data recovery for Windows - Includes CD/DVD Data RecoveryUneraserOffice RecoveryPartition Recovery and Flash Recovery - Free-trial versions available - http://www.diskinternals.co.uk/
HWMonitor - "HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature." - http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Speedfan - "If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place." - http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

EASEUS - FREE AND PAID-FOR BACKUP, DATA-RECOVERY AND PARTITIONING SOLUTIONS

If you just want to back up home computers the free EASEUS Todo Backup program and an external hard disk drive is all you need. However, for medium to large businesses, an external device such as the IBM Protectier TS7650a Deduplication Appliance is required.
"EASEUS Todo Backup is a completely free solution for your operating system and data backup to protect them away from unexpected damage or loss. It provides backup, restore, disk-clone functions based on Windows operating systems with ease and reliability." - Supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008. - http://www.todo-backup.com/
EASEUS Partition Master - Free and paid-for versions - "Top Benefits: * ALL-IN-ONE partition solution. * Resize/Move partitions without data loss. * Extend system partition to maximize your PC. * Recover deleted or lost partitions. * Disk & Partition Copy Wizard." - http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/comparison.html
Data Recovery Wizard - "Free and powerful data recovery software to recover 1 GB data free of charge. It solves all data loss problems - recover files emptied from Recycle Bin, or lost due to software crash, formatted or damaged hard drive, virus attack, lost partition and other unknown reasons under Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7. It recovers data from formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths. Moreover, the free data recovery software works well with dynamic disk, RAID and EXT2/EXT3 file system." -http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

SYSINTERNALS FREE UTILITIES

"The Sysinternals [freeware] web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals that you won't find anywhere else. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell alone write and update everything here. We welcome all suggestions and comments."
Sysinternals was an independent organisation but it is now owned by Microsoft. Visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/default.aspx for the great free utilities.
The hidden treasures of Sysinternals -
"Every few months I make a pilgrimage to the Sysinternals website to look at its superb collection of tools. It’s now hosted inside the Microsoft Technet monster since its authors joined Microsoft as employees some while ago, but the value of their site is still as strong as ever and the tools are now guaranteed not to be ignored or left to rust." -

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and use testdisk for data recovery

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