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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Hard Disk Serial Number Changer

Whenever a hard drive is formatted in Windows a serial number is assigned in the end. This serial number is often used by software applications to restrict a software installation to that hard drive or reduce the number of allowed activations by one by linking the serial number of the hard drive to one of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Analyse your hard disk and stop wasting space

Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space!
Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering 1GB [...]

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Categories: Linux, Mac, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Visualize Hard Drive Space

I covered software programs or Windows Explorer extensions that would display hard drive space usage before. (for example Folder Size or JDiskReport Hard Drive Analyser) FoSiX is another tool that displays the storage consumption of each system partition that, hard drive and external device that is currently connected to the computer.
The software provides a clean [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 7th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan

Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan is a guest post by Rarst who is running his own tech blog Rarst.net, a blog about software and IT-related web resources. Definitely worth adding to a RSS News Feed reader.

SpeedFan is well known program in the category of system monitoring. It is a very good tool for controlling CPU [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Got My SSD, Any Questions Or Suggestions?

Okay the Solid State Drive that I ordered on Sunday arrived today and I thought it would be nice to give everyone the chance to ask questions about it and point to tests that they would like me to run to see how the SSD performs in a normal computer environment in comparison to those [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Diagnose And Manage Hard Disks with HDD Scan

HDD Scan is a very sophisticated hard disks diagnosing and managing tool that provides a wealth of information and options to the user. It basically provides the user with information about the hard disks that are installed on his computer, with ways to tests those hard disks and with options to change certain settings of [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 29th, 2008
  • Comments: 18

How many hours have your hard disks been running ?

Can you tell me how many hours your hard disk or Solid State Disk has been running and how many times it has been powered on since you started using it in your computer ? My Samsung 1 TB hard drive was powered on 106 times and active for 814 hours since I build my [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Windows, software

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