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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Hard Drive Health Monitoring

Active Hard Disk Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring software that displays information about a computer system’s hard drive state. It analyzes and displays S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) information provided by compatible hard drives. Other features are hard drive performance monitoring and control, bad sector scanning as well as event logs and [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Dedicated Server Disk Wipes

System administrators do not have physical access to dedicated servers. These servers are usually hosted by a web hosting company in a secured data center. Most dedicated servers are rented for a certain period of time and then passed on to the next customer. While some dedicated server hosters securely wipe and format the hard [...]

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Categories: Security, The Web

Visualize your hard drive consumption with SpaceSniffer

No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing [...]

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Categories: Tools, Uncategorized, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 10

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: Jan 7th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Hard Drive Data Retrieval

Disk Investigator is a pretty unique hard drive data retrieval tool that takes a totally different approach than the usual hard drive data recovery tools. What Disk Investigator does is to provide direct access to the raw data sectors of a selected hard drive so that the hard drive’s data can be explored up to [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Disk Space Analyzer

Free Disk Analyzer is a free software program for computers running Microsoft Windows that will display information about the computer’s storage devices. The interface looks like a pretty Windows Explorer clone concentrating on disk space usage on the computer’s drives and folders.
The program displays all connected storage devices, their capacity, free space and occupied space [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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