Hard Drive Tools
Copy/Clone Tools
- CopyWipe– Copy entire Hard Drive and securely wipes drives clean too.
- DriveImageXML– A Free Disk Imaging Utility.
- Easeus Todo Backup– Backup a System, Partition or Hard Drive.
- FOG– Free and Open Ghost runs on a linux PC, imaging your Windows PC’s over the network.
- FTK-Imager – Free Disk Imaging Tool.
- HDClone– Free Hard Drive Cloning Software.
- Macrium Reflect– Free Fast Hard Drive Imaging.
- ParagonBackup & Recovery – Complete & Incremental backup…
- WinImage– A Disk Imaging utility. Free for 30 Days.
Defrag Tools
- Auslogics Disk Defrag– Disk Defragmenting Tool.
- Defraggler– Disk Defragmenting Tool.
- JKDefrag– Another Free Disk Defragmenting Tool.
Partition Tools
- EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition – Free partition manager for home users.
- FindandMount – Partition Recovery tool.
- GParted– Gnome partition Editor, partitions hard drives.
- Parted Magic– Free Partition manager, download ISO, burn disk, boot and partition.
- Partition Logic– Free hard disk partitioning and data management tool.
Other Hard Drive Tools
- Active@ Hard Drive Monitor– A Free Disk Monitoring and Scanning Program.
- Bonnie++– A “suite” of hard drive tools, including zcav performance tests.
- Crystal Disk Info – Nice free program for checking health of hard drives.
- Darik’s Boot & Nuke – Securely deletes hard drive data on most drives.
- H2Bench – Gets accurate data for read and write performance across the surface area of an empty, unpartitioned disk.
- HDDerase – Erase your data on your hard drive like no other tool can.
- HDD Health – Monitors the health of your hard drive.
- HDTune– Checks hard drive for errors, SMART status, and Temperature.
- MHDD– Most popular freeware program for low- level HDD diagnostics.
- SeaTools– Seagate’s Hard Drive Tools.
- Secure Erase – Erases all data (even the bad blocks) on a hard drive.
- TestDisk– This program fixes hard drive problems, no installation necessary.
- Various HD Utilities– A List of downloadable diagnostic programs and utilities from different manufacturers.