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Find your Hard Disk’s Speed and Data Transfer Rate

Wanted to know what is your hard disk’s speed? Well if you are uncertain of your disk’s performance and wanted to verify its speed and other details then here is a free tool for you that can do the same work easily.

The free tool is called Roadkil’s Disk Speed. It can perform certain tests to [...]

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5 Dos of Using Computer

Everyone wish to protect his computer and extract the best out of it but in order to get the maximum use of the computer one must use it wisely. Following are the 5 Good Computing Habits that would ensure that your system is in the best possible state:
1.    Organize your Folders
It is easy to save [...]

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Download Hard Disk Indicator for Windows

Most of the times our system is idle and does nothing, so if you wish to find out when your hard disk is processing and when not, then here is a Hard Disk Indicator for your system.

Usually all the CPUs come with a Hard Disk indicator LED light but that is placed on the CPU [...]

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Manage Disk Space Usage with Visualization

Managing hard disk space is a problem for lot of people who face issues in finding that useless file which is occupying lot of space.

But with this free tool called Disk Space Fan, managing hard disk space is fun and easier. The biggest advantage of using this tool is that we come across nice charts [...]

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Recover Data from Corrupted Hard Disk

We have lots of important data in our hard disks, don’t we? It would definitely be a problem if our hard disk crashes or become unreadable. Such was a case with one of our readers who wanted to know how to recover data from a corrupted hard disk.

Unstoppable Copier is a tool that can recover [...]

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Securely Erase Disk Data with Roadkil’s Disk Wipe

If you want to dispose-off of your hard disk or just deliberately wish to erase the data from the hard drive then simple delete or Shift Delete is not enough as the data can still be recovered again.

There are occasions when we want to permanently delete our secret or confidential information from the disk so [...]

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Difference between Format and Quick Format

When installing new copy of Windows you must have noticed following options:
•    Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick)
•    Format the partition by using the FAT file system (Quick)
•    Format the partition by using the NTFS file system
•    Format the partition by using the FAT file system
•    Leave the current file system [...]

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Delete Data from Disk Permanently with Blank and Secure

There are ways to recover deleted data from the Hard Disk so as to recover any accidentally deleted data but in case you wish to delete data beyond recovery then there are ways to do that as well.

Blank And Secure is a portable tool to securely delete the data. Securely deleting the data is not [...]

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Free Portable Windows Drive Manager

Disk Drive Manager is a utility that enables us to see all the drives connected to the computer either internally or externally, so if you have a habit of taking the drives along wherever you go, this tool is for you.
By default Windows provide us with the utility called Disk Drive Manager to see the [...]

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Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Disk with HDD Regenerator

I have mentioned earlier about removing the bad sectors from the disk but recently one of our readers named Rob, told me about a tool that can repair the bad sectors easily and reliably.

The tool is called HDD Regenerator and the tool is able to detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface. [...]

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What to do at “Error Performing Inpage Operation”

One of our readers came across this problem that whenever he tried to open a drive there comes an error message that “F:\ is not accessible, Error Performing Inpage Operation”.

Following are the causes of the error message and what to do at this.
Causes:
•    The error message only comes up when you try to access any [...]

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2 Free Hard Disk Data Eraser Tools

If you are thinking to sell your computer or just lend your drive to some other person who can’t be trusted, then you should use this utility to wipe out all the data from the Hard Disk.
Even after you have formatted the drive or deleted the data using Shift Delete, the data still can be [...]

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