HD Doctor Blog

There are many free hard drive diagnostic softwares available to help you determine what, if anything, is wrong when you suspect there may be a problem with a hard drive.

Some of these diagnostics tools may be built in to your operating system already while others are available from hard drive manufacturers.

1. Seagate SeaTools
Seagate SeaTools is free hard drive testing software that comes in two forms for home users:

• SeaTools for DOS supports Seagate or Maxtor drives and runs independent from your operating system on its own CD or disk, making it highly reliable.
• SeaTools for Windows is a program that installs on your Windows system. You can do basic and advanced

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File Name: EASEUS Todo Backup 1.0
Version: 1.0
Publisher: Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development
OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008

Back up and restore data on your system, partition, or hard disk. EASEUS Todo Backup is a freeware. You can use this freeware to backup the system or important data to a safe place. With it you can create mirror image, clone disk, upgrade small disk to bigger one. You can also backup your data into hard drive or CD/DVD.

Main Features:

• Backup system partition to image:
  Backup the entire system partition, including the system state and all files to an image file. Easy to store and restore.
• Backup partition or disk:
  Backup the whole disk

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In today’s world having anti-virus software is not optional.  A good anti-virus software will perform real-time and on-demand virus (See my another post: Top 10 worst computer viruses) checks on your system, and warn you if it detects a virus.  The program should also provide a way for you to update its virus definitions, or signatures; so that your virus protection will be current (new viruses are discovered all the time).  It is important that you keep your virus definitions as current as possible.

Antivirus software provides an essential layer of protection from a multitude of virus, trojan, worm, spyware, adware, dialer, keylogger and rootkit infections. Traditionally antivirus softwares just detected virus and spyware removers just detected spyware…

Freeware backup software is finally becoming more common — perhaps because of the explosion of large storage devices. Whatever backup option you choose, make sure you choose one and get started early. You can always use another backup method later as your needs grow. The tools below are some of my favorite free backup softwares.

Free Backup Softwares:

• Autobackup: is considered to be one of the best no-frills freeware tool for backup. You need a create a list of paths that have to be checked and a backup mirrored copy is created of all the files that are found in those files and have been modified since the last backup.
• TaskZip: is a small little tool that runs

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File Name: Gnome Partition Editor 
Version: 0.4.5-2
Publisher: Bart Hakvoort (plors)
Languages: English
OS: GNU/Linux/Windows
Price: Free

The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for creating partitions, reorganizing partitions, and deleting disk partitions.

A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The GParted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partitions.

Main Features

With GParted you can accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a partition table on a disk device.
• Enable and disable partition flags such as boot and hidden.
• Perform actions with partitions such as:
  • create partition or delete partition 
  • resize partition or move partition 

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File Name: Partition Master
Version: Home Edition
Publisher: CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd
Languages: English
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32 bit) operating system
Price: Free

EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE disk partitioning utility for extending system partition, better disk space management, settling low disk space problem under Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

This free partition manager works perfectly with hardware RAID and laptops like HP, Dell, etc. Your data is completely protected during all operations.

If your computer is running 64 bit Windows systems, please check Professional or Server editions.

Main Features

• Resize/Move partitions without data loss
• Extend system partition easily and safely
• Create partitions,

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File Name: Partition Wizard
Version: Home Edition
Publisher: MT Solution Ltd
Languages: English
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 bit & 64 bit) operating system
Price: Free

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd.  Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition and Partition Recovery.

Partition Wizard Home Edition is designated for home user only, to use Partition Wizard in a business envirnoment, Partition Wizard

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