Format Hard Drives

Apple Mac Lesson on Hard Drives & Their Size - What is a hard drive and more: Easy video computer lesson on understanding what a hard drive is and what it does, plus why the size always seems to be smaller than what it says on the box. Are you being ripped off by drive manufacturers?

Windows PC Lesson on Hard Drives & Their Size - What is a hard drive and more: Easy video computer lesson on understanding what a hard drive is and what it does, plus why the size always seems to be smaller than what it says on the box. Are you being ripped off by drive manufacturers?

About Haunted Hard Drives Just in time for Halloween, resident zombie and pixel pusher, Dave Brasgalla, has whipped up a new set of freeware icons to infuse your Mac s HD with the spirit of famous movie monsters. Haunted Hard Drives have come to inhabit your desktop, frighten the neighbors and...


Platforms: Mac

ATAidle sets the idle timer on ATA hard drives, so they spin down when the period of inactivity has expired. To use it, you must be running FreeBSD with ATAng, so basically FreeBSD 5.1 or newer - alternatively, you can also run it on Linux - its been tested with kernel 2.6.1, but should work...


Platforms: *nix

wmhdplop project monitors your hard drives and displays visual information about their activity (read, write, swapin, swapout), and optionally (if hddtemp is running as a daemon), displays their temperature/status..


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Fat32format 1.0 is a simple but useful tool from which you can, in Windows XP, format FAT32 hard drives that may be very large (32GB or larger).The program runs from the command line.


Platforms: Windows

G5 Drives - by Dave Brasgalla G5 inspired hard drives and desktop folder icons. Keywords: aluminum apple aqua brasgalla code custom dave default desktop detailed disk drive drives finder folder g5 g5dr globe grill hard hardware hd hi high hitech iconfactory icons inspired matrix metal metallic...


Platforms: Mac

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...


Platforms: OS/2, Windows

eDATA Unerase is a powerful and easy-to-use data recovery software to recover lost or deleted files from hard drives, floppy disks, digital cameras, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Sony Memory Sticks, Flash cards or other removable media types. Simply use eDATA Unerase to restore your lost files in 3...


Platforms: Windows

Folder Size will analyze your hard drives and display the file and folder sizes so that you can easily check the distribution of your disk space. The application will display the sizes of the folders and files and also the percentage of the total disk size that they occupy. The neat report can be...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server, Other

If you ever had a system crash then CheckDrive is for you. CheckDrive offers you an easy way to check your hard drives for errors. CheckDrive may detect and fix hard drive errors that might appear on system crashes or when switching off your PC without a proper Windows shutdown. CheckDrive...


Platforms: Windows

CompuApps SwissKnife is a tool to manage, create and format IDE partitions on hard drives of up to 120GB. CompuApps SwissKnife also supports interfaces, both internal and external, like Parallel, PCMIZ, USB and Firewire, and it also allows FAT16 and FAT32 partitions.


Platforms: Windows

Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with its only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, testdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, etc... Parted Magic is based on my work from the GParted LiveCD project and...


Platforms: *nix

MacTiVo Blesser is a formatting utility that sets Linux partitions on IDE drives for use in TiVos as "B" drives. In many cases, TiVos with one hard drive can simply "Bless" their new drive and add it - then the TiVo automatically uses it for extra recording capacity. MacTiVo Blesser performs the...


Platforms: Mac

A user-friendly and full-featured Mac data recovery program that will help Mac users to recover data from Mac Hard Drives. The software is used to recover deleted, formatted, corrupt and lost data and Mac volumes. Regardless of the reason for data loss, be it from accidental format, damage to a...


Platforms: Mac

Digital Document Shredder - Server Edition erases sensitive data from computer hard drives so that it may not be accessed via software or hardware recovery. The product supports all leading standards and algorithms for secure data shredding in the market today including the US Department of...


Platforms: Windows

DiskMark is a simple utility designed to allow you to benchmark your disks and hard drives performance. DiskMark allows you to specify many advanced options to determine how your drives perform best and to determine the typical operating performance.


Platforms: Windows

DiskMark is a simple utility designed to allow you to benchmark your disks and hard drives performance. DiskMark allows you to specify many advanced options to determine how your drives perform best and to determine the typical operating performance.


Platforms: Windows

DriveGLEAM is a small tool that shows read / write activity for your hard drives in the system notification area (tray). DriveGLEAM also supports output via parallel port so that you can for example have a red led for write and a green led for read access. DriveGLEAM can also be handy for...


Platforms: Windows