Hard drive

Opera 31 beta Speeds up browser on regular hard drives

Posted by Techdows on Jun 17th, 2015

Opera doesn’t spin your hard-disk drive much now. Opera desktop team has promoted Opera 31 to beta channel. During the developer coverage, we’ve told you about the new look for settings page and Discover and activated Encrypted... More »

WizTree, Fastest Disk Space Analyzer ever?

Posted by Techdows on Dec 8th, 2012

Are you running out of disk space for your hard drive try WizTree, best free disk space analyzer shows most space used files and folders in your Computer. There are plethora of disk space analyzing tools out there, we rate Wiztree... More »

Check Your Hard Drive Health Status in Windows 8 with CrystalDiskInfo

Posted by Techdows on Nov 25th, 2012

Want to check your hard drive health in Windows 8? Free tool CrystalDiskInfo now got you covered. There is no built-in utility in Windows 8 to tell the health status of hard drive, that’s why we’ve to rely on freeware third-party... More »

Defraggler 2.11 Adds Windows 8 Support

Posted by Techdows on Oct 18th, 2012

Piriform today has released Defraggler 2.11 version with support for Windows 8. Hard drive defragment tool from makers of CCleaner not only defrags entire hard drive but also the individual files and folders as well. Defraggler latest... More »

Find The Folders Occupying the Most Hard Drive Space with MakeRoom

Posted by Techdows on Feb 21st, 2012

Hard drives are pretty cheap these days, this means you can store more photos, videos, torrent files and other stuff. But one day you may want to know where the drive space is going ? locating large size folders isn’t a problem here... More »

UltraDefrag 5 Final Released with MFT Optimization Feature

Posted by Techdows on Jan 1st, 2012

Your PC offers better in performance which you feel when you reinstall Windows that’s not the case as the days go by all files will be fragmented and scattered all over hard drive and it takes much more for drive to access the contents.... More »

Migrate Partitions From Conventional Hard Drives to SSDs with O&O SSD Migration Kit

Posted by Techdows on Dec 14th, 2011

When compared to conventional hard drives SSDs are costlier but offers better performance and their life span is less. If you’ve purchased new Solid State Drive and want to migrate your system partition or entire hard drive ... More »

Defraggler 2.08 Adds Hard Drive Benchmarking and Improved Detection of SSD

Posted by Techdows on Nov 15th, 2011

Defraggler is a freeware Defrag tool from the makers of CCleaner, not only allows to defrag entire hard drive but lets you defrag individual files and folders as well, today, Piriform has released Defraggler 2.08 version with new... More »

Disk Health Monitor Alerts Via Email when Hard Drive Error Events are Detected in Event Log

Posted by Techdows on Nov 12th, 2011

Disk Health Monitor from Foolish IT unlike to other hard drive health monitoring app is a freeware app that scans event logs for disk/domain controller errors and alerts you when any relevant event is generated. You can configure this... More »

Zero-Fill Your Hard Drive Data with Lowvel

Posted by Techdows on Nov 11th, 2011

If your hard drive has failed, then you need to recover data from it first then destroy it later or fill it with zeros called Zero filling of a hard drive which makes data impossible to recover with data recovery tools, Lowvel... More »

Kickass Undelete, File Recovery Tool for Windows

Posted by Techdows on Nov 2nd, 2011

If you’ve deleted a file it won’t be deleted in hard drive as Windows reserves the place for future writing but the location for it will be marked as unoccupied until new data is written to these locations these files still... More »

What is DFDWiz.exe? Why it is Running in Task Manager?

Posted by Techdows on Oct 31st, 2011

If you’re viewing DFDWiZ.exe process running in the Task Manager under Processes list, then there is a bad news for you, this is neither a virus nor related to Trojan, it’s a system process related to Microsoft located in... More »

O&O SpeedCheck, Shows Performance Gain Possible with Defragmented Hard Drive

Posted by Techdows on Oct 18th, 2011

Its always recommended to defragment your hard drive for better performance, O&O released O&O SpeedCheck freeware benchmarking software which after running benchmarking tests on your hard drive shows possible gain in performance... More »

Dataram RAMDisk Uses RAM as a Hard Drive to Store and Load Windows Applications Faster

Posted by Techdows on Sep 9th, 2011

You’ve got high-speed Processor, graphics card, Mother Board more RAM, is that’s enough for your PC to perform well? may be not one component that slows down your PC speed is hard drive. Extract addition of RAM always helpful.... More »

HDDlife Warns About Your Failing Hard Drive

Posted by Techdows on Aug 27th, 2011

Hard Drives are cheaper nowadays, doesn’t mean that you can risk your data in it because at any time the drive may fail, you need to backup important data and at times need to monitor the health status of it with freeware tools... More »

Better Directory Analyzer: Check Directory Size, Find Duplicate Files and Free-up the Disk Space

Posted by Techdows on Aug 23rd, 2011

If you want to know – which files occupying the most space in hard drive, or for that matter want to locate the duplicate files in a particular directory or perhaps wondering why a directory size has doubled and why the free... More »

Free HDD LED Shows Your Hard Drive Activity in Real-time

Posted by Techdows on Aug 6th, 2011

If your PC don’t have a HDD led connected or is out of your sight which blinks when read and write operations carried out on hard drive, Free HDD LED is a freeware utility shows hard drive activity in real-time in the system tray. Free... More »

Asus Disk Unlocker Unlocks Hidden Storage Space in Large Hard Drives

Posted by Techdows on Jun 24th, 2011

Windows Operating Systems have limitations in utilizing Hard drive space more than 2048 GB (2.2 TB), Asus Disk Unlocker freeware utility specially designed for Asus motherboards overcomes this limitation and allows all drive space... More »

Drive Speedometer, Monitor Read And Write Speeds of your Hard drive

Posted by Techdows on Apr 11th, 2011

For an ordinary PC user there isn’t much need to know read and write speed of hard drive, but sometimes it is better to know them to know working condition of hard drive. Some Antivirus program’s processes keep running in... More »

Samsung SSD Magician Tool : Optimize and Benchmark the Performance of Samsung Solid State Drive (SSD)

Posted by Techdows on Jan 29th, 2011

Solid State Drives (SSD) offers more performance when compared to the traditional hard drives, but SSD’s lifetime also less, Samsung SSD Magician offers collection of tools for Samsung SSD which allows to optimize, benchmark the... More »

Download O&O Defrag Free Edition

Posted by Techdows on Jan 20th, 2011

Till now O&O Software offered O&O Defrag Pro version which we need to buy to use it, O&O software released Free version of O&O Defrag software offers regular defragmentation which ensures quicker access times while... More »

Photo Vacuum Packer Optimizes Photos to Save Disk Space in Your Hard Drive

Posted by Techdows on Dec 28th, 2010

We’ve recently covered excellent shareware utility that has gone freeware, FILEminimizer Pictures 3.0 reduces the size of images by preserving the quality, Photo Vacuum Packer another similar free app creates optimize copies of images... More »

Wondeshare Disk Manager Free : Free Handy Disk & Partition Manager

Posted by Techdows on Nov 14th, 2010

Wondershare Disk Manager Free is free disk management tool, designed to help both novice and expert users to manage their disk partitions and re-structure their hard drive. Wondershare Disk Manager Free key features A handy partition... More »

How to Check Samsung Hard drive Warranty Status Online [Updated]

Posted by Techdows on Jul 3rd, 2010

I already covered how to check warranty status of Seagate hard drive online with which, you can able to find your Seagate hard drive warranty status till date from when you purchased your computer.Want to know your Samsung hard... More »

Acronis Drive Monitor determines your Hard drive’s Health

Posted by Techdows on Jun 16th, 2010

Makers of Acronis True Image released free application, Acronis Drive Monitor which monitors health status of Server, WorkStation,Pc hard drives and sends an email and shows a message on the windows taskbar when it found disk... More »

Analyze the Contents Of Hard Drive With Xinorbis

Posted by Techdows on Nov 30th, 2009

Users store lot of data like videos, documents and other stuff in hard drives . Want to know which type of files occupying more space and total information about drives and folders of hard drive, Xinorbis will analyze the drive,... More »

How to Check Warranty Status of Seagate Hard drive Online [Updated]

Posted by Techdows on Aug 22nd, 2009

If a user buys computer, the shop owner gives warranty for the whole system for one year or more depends on they offer. The user who buys computer doesn’t enquire details of warranty period for hard drive, processor, RAM etc. Because... More »

Remove Data Permanently from Hard drives and USB Drives With Eraser

Posted by Techdows on Jul 27th, 2009

When you selling your Computer along with Hard drive ,USB drive to others just by formatting thinking that your sensitive information in hard drive and USB drive is erased.No it’s not, your sensitive data still be recoverable with... More »

CCleaner Tips & Tricks

Posted by Techdows on Jun 15th, 2009

CCleaner is a freeware utility that protects your Privacy by clearing all browsing history, saves free space for hard drive by cleaning temporary internet files, temp files, cache and thus improves your system performance.With CCleaner,... More »

What is Zero Filling of a Hard drive?

Posted by Techdows on Jun 9th, 2009

If you want to destroy all the data in the hard disk which containing sensitive information which should not be recoverable at all ,is it possible? yes it is possible with zero filling. Reasons to destroy the data in the hard... More »

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