Resources and utilities for hard drive testing and data recovery.

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Hard Drive Diagnostic Utilities

• Disk Scanner
  With this tiny utility you can check your hard drive, USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk for read errors. It scans the disk for bad blocks and shows affected files. Disk Scanner is portable and doesn't require any setup, so it can be run from any USB flash drive, etc.

RAID Server Data Recovery

• DiskInternals Raid Recovery
  Try this tool if you need to recover RAID array. It recovers corrupted RAID 0, 1, JBOD, RAID 5, and 0+1, (onboard or dedicated RAID controller), Microsoft software raids (Dynamic Disks), Adaptec RAID Controllers and DDF compatible devices. Raid Recovery supports both manual and fully automatic detection of RAID array essential parameters - array and RAID controller type, stripe size and disks order.

File Recovery / Undelete Utilities

• Complete File Recovery
  Universal file undelete software. Can be used for deleted images recovery (with preview), documents or any other types of files. Not so fast, but can really help. Portable, so can be run from USB flash drive or CD.

S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive Monitoring Software

• ActiveSMART, by Ariolic Software
  One of the best hard drive health status monitoring, S.M.A.R.T. and temperature monitoring software for hard drives. Includes the disk audit feature to see the hard drive space usage. Great diagnostic tool.
• HDDlife, by BinarySense
  Hard drive health status monitor using S.M.A.R.T.

Low Level Format Utilities

• Low Level Format Utilities
  List of low-level format tools from hard drive manufacturers at ariolic.com

Hard Drive Space Utilities

Hard Drive Cleaners

• CCleaner
  Powerful freeware disk cleaning and system optimization utility. Includes registry cleaner, third-party and browsers temporary files remover.

Hard Drive Benchmarks

• HD Tune
  Freeware HDD Benchmark utility. You can use it to check hard drive Transfer Rate, Burst Rate, Access Time, PC CPU Usage, information about hard drive details (serial number, partition information, technical details and so on).

TOP 5 Hard drives from our library

• 1. Western Digital Elements Desktop (2TB) - [ Western Digital Corp. ]
• 2. Clickfree Portable Backup Drive (320GB) - [ Storage Appliance Corporation ]
• 3. LaCie Minimus (2TB) - [ LaCie Ltd. ]
• 4. Iomega Radical Skin Portable Hard Drive - [ Iomega Corp. ]
• 5. Lenovo ThinkPad USB Secure Hard Drive (320GB) - [ Lenovo ]

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