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Global Spare
An extra, physical disk drive placed in an array and used as a Hot Spare. A global spare automatically takes the place of a failed drive. See also Auto Swap.

1. HD Doctor Suite (SalvationDATA Technology, LLC. China)

SalvationDATA HD Doctor Drive Restoration Suite is an integrated hardware-software combined system that fixes firmware issues for drives of all major manufacturers and popular drive families.

By using HD Doctors and our software suite, you can have 50 percent more capability in data recovery, thus have 50 percent more business, which makes you “a professional”.

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2. PC 3000 Drive Restoration System (ACE Laboratory, Russia)

A drive restoration powerhouse developed by the data recovery experts at ACE Laboratory Russia, PC-3000 drive restoration system is the only

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Freebyte Backup
Freebyte Backup is a very effective freeware backup program for Windows. It enables you to easily backup files from any amount of directories and sub-directories.

Freebyte Backup can backup all files, or a selection of files: you can filter according to file-date, file-type and even perform an incremental backup. Also: support for profiles.Small, simple to use, and simple to install (no dll’s!!).

Easeus Disk Copy
Free program which can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, data, lost files, and inaccessible data. It…

Drives presented for recovery sometimes have some heads or surfaces damaged (physical damage). The problem is severe enough for the drive to stop working in its native system. However, with the latest upgraded Data Compass DCEXP utility, it is possible now (before installation of MHA replacement) to create a copy of data using the remaining good surfaces or drive heads; small files can even be recovered directly.

What’s more, this procedure will also be essential in cases:

1. When the drive is having read instability problem: by reading the surfaces one by one, it greatly reduces…

Omniformat
Free document conversion utility for Windows, which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.

exe-eBook Creator
exe-eBook creator is a freeware ebook compiler for TreePad files. It enables you to create an executable (program) from a TreePad .tpd or .hjt file. This single “exe-file” contains the TreePad database as well as the TreePad Viewer program.

The advantage of an exe-eBook is that it can be distributed royalty-free as a single file, since both data and viewer…

Allway Sync
Free file and folder synchronization program for Windows. Synchronizes your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more.

MPress
Freeware executable packer for PE32 (= Windows), PE32+ and .Net executable formats!

UPX
Free program which can compress Windows and Linux executables to 40% of their original size. Very fast and efficient program.

HJ-Split (Freeware file splitter for a variety of platforms)
Why split files? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. Later on these chunks can be re-joined using HJSplit itself or HJJoin.

HJSplit is available for a large number of operating systems:Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Java, OS/2, Windows 3.x, MS DOS, Amiga. For…

Catfish
Small, free and automatic disk inventory program for Windows. For people who can’t remember what they put on their ZIP disks, floppies or CD-roms! We use it at Freebyte.

Cathy
A similar program (not only in name) to Catfish. Has searching capabilities based on file name, date and size. Customizable date format. Found files can be opened directly, if they are present. Only contains a small single executable file, meaning that no installation is needed. Runs on Windows.

Failback
Restoring a failed system component’s share of a load to a replacement component.

Failover
A mode of operation for failure tolerant systems in which a component has failed and a redundant component has assumed its functions.

Failover Port
A fibre channel port capable of assuming I/O requests for another, failed port on the loop. During normal operation, a failover port may be active or inactive. Failover ports assume the same loop ID and, optionally, the same node from the failed port.

Failure
A detectable physical change in hardware, requiring replacement of the component.

Fault Tolerance, Failure Tolerance
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