Hard Drives and Mediaheal For Hard Drives Software for Windows

SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor
$139.95 - SoftAmbulance data recovery company

Recover damaged disks and lost partitions with SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor.

Did you accidentally delete a file or folder, or formatted a hard disk by mistake? Did your hard drive crash so badly you cannot access it anymore? Was your file system or partition table messed up by a virus or hardware failure? Look no further! SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor will heal your hard drive, cure partition tables and boot records, restore corrupted files and repair directory structure completely automatically.

Windows has a built-in tool to check and fix corrupt hard drives, and possibly restore access to damaged disks. The built-in error-checking utility can help in simple cases, but cannot help if something more severe than an unscheduled computer restart has happened. It was never designed to fix severely damaged hard drives and re-create lost directory structures after formatting a disk.

SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor is designed to carefully rescue as much data as possible from seriously corrupted file systems and hard drives in dangerous conditions without requiring any specific knowledge from the user. A simple wizard will guide you through entire process of saving your work by automatically scanning your hard drives for lost or corrupted partitions, re-creating file and directory structures, and finally letting you select files and folders to recover. To ensure highest levels of safety while working with already damaged disks and file systems, SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor uses low-level sector scan. As an extra security step, SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor can create a virtual image of a hard drive being recovered, and only access the image instead of working directly with the corrupted disk. These precautions ensure highest levels of safety to your important information.

SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor can automatically fix and restore files, folders, partitions and system structures such as NTFS, FAT, MFT and MBR, and supports all Windows versions.

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HDDlife Pro
$35 - BinarySense, Ltd.

HDDlife provides real-time monitoring of your hard drives. It immediately estimates the disk status and displays its health and temperature values. The tool smoothly works under Microsoft Windows Vista, supports USB hard disk monitoring and uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to make regular observations of disks health. It comes with data loss prevention, malfunction protection and power management features. HDDlife is an effective way to know about any potential failure of your hard drives to take measures in advance.

HDDlife is based upon S.M.A.R.T. technology and shows the information about all disk attributes in real time, including temperature. The advanced algorithms of HDDlife can notice the slightest change of the values, and, in case they exceed the threshold mark, the utility will immediately alert you about it. In the preventative mode, the program can run regular checkups to let you know about any difference in disk performance and consistency. Also you can send the HDD readwrite indicator to the system tray to keep this information in view all the time.

Another power feature of HDDlife allows monitoring the status of USB hard disks just like any other ordinary hard drive. The utility currently supports external hard drives from IO-Data and Western Digital Passport. You will certainly appreciate that HDDlife lets you manually set the power consumption of your hard drives. It can reduce heat emission, improving the temperature status and allowing you to prolong the lifespan of a notebook.

The support of Microsoft Window Vista means that HDDlife satisfies the demands set forth by Microsoft in "Works on Windows Vista" certificate. Vista?s users will receive the fully-fledged program which will work smoothly and easily. What?s more, the improved registration process of HDDlife provides users with the most convenient registration experience. Use HDDlife to safeguard yourself against the loss of information stored on your hard drive.

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Advanced SmartCheck
$24 - URL Toy software

Advanced SmartCheck 3.3 uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to monitor all networked PC's hard drives internal S.M.A.R.T. attributes, predict possible drive failure and prevent data loss. Using predictions settings, Advanced SmartCheck lets you know about a potential disk health problem before you lose valuable data.
With Advanced SmartCheck, the Network Administrator will have the most recent information about the health of all hard drives on all of the computers installed across the network. Prediction of the nearest T.E.C. of any hard drive can prevent valuable data loss by replacing dangerous drives and backing up all data.
For example, motor and/or bearing failure can be predicted by an increase in the drive spin-up time and the number of retries it takes to succeed in spinning up the drive. Or, if the drive notes that the error correction is being used excessively, it can attribute this to a broken drive head or contamination, and alert you before the problem gets worse. Armed with a failure prediction, the user or system manager can back up key data, replace a suspect device prior to data loss, or avoid undesired downtime.
S.M.A.R.T. monitors the disks performance, bad sectors, calibration, CRC errors, disk spin up time, distance between the head and the disk, temperature, features of medium, heads, motor or servo-mechanism. In all, over 30 attributes are covered by S.M.A.R.T. The errors that the system can detect can be predicted by a number of methods. Currently the SMART system can detect around 70% of all hard drive errors.
Advanced SmartCheck Tray client shows the icon with the temperature value of the most hot hard drive in the system tray. You can point this icon by the mouse and ASC Tray client will show a hint with temperatures of all hard drives.
Advanced SmartCheck Tray client notifies you when the temperature of the hard drive exceeds the threshold by the balloon hint Event Log or WinPopup. Tray client settings can be changed by Administrator.

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Windows Powertools
$0 - Vivek Narayanan

Windows Powertools has these features : <BR>*Cache2Trash:Clear unwanted temporary files to gain space <BR>*DiskCheck: Check for disk errors and resolve them <BR>*FAT2NTFS:Convert your partitions to NTFS<BR>*Kompressor:Compress Hard Drives<BR>*ConvertIMG:Convert multiple images simultaneously at high speeds.<BR>*Defrag:Analyze and Defragment hard drives<BR>PLUS Easy access to 10 little known but powerful utilities. <BR>Created By Vivek Narayanan

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Hot-time Privacy Enterprise
$199 - AecceleraSoft

Hot-time Privacy Enterprise completely and securely removes all data from hard drives or disk partitions before return of leased assets or computer disposal. Don't give away sensitive information, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files and letters, or traces of Internet or newsgroup activity with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates, reassigns to different departments or removes from operation. Deleting all the files or even formatting the hard disk is not enough to stop people to restore information using basic recovery programs. Hot-time Privacy Enterprise however removes all traces of data from the computer hard disk. Hot-time Privacy Enterprise can be operated either from a bootable media (floppy disk, CD, DVD) to sanitize any drive or partition from the computer, or through the network to sanitize a large number of computers, centralize sanitization logs (reports) on the server and more. The computers can be sanitized regardless of the file system or the operating system. Whether you want to prevent identity theft, protect your privacy or stop competitors from stealing your sensitive information, Hot-time Privacy Enterprise offers the solution.

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Wendfloware Privacy Suite
$99 - Wendfloware

Wendfloware Privacy Enterprise completely and securely removes all data from hard drives or disk partitions before return of leased assets or computer disposal. Don't give away sensitive information, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files and letters, or traces of Internet or newsgroup activity with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates, reassigns to different departments or removes from operation. Deleting all the files or even formatting the hard disk is not enough to stop people to restore information using basic recovery programs. Wendfloware Privacy Enterprise however removes all traces of data from the computer hard disk. Wendfloware Privacy Enterprise can be operated either from a bootable media (floppy disk, CD, DVD) to sanitize any drive or partition from the computer, or through the network to sanitize a large number of computers, centralize sanitization logs (reports) on the server and more. The computers can be sanitized regardless of the file system or the operating system. Whether you want to prevent identity theft, protect your privacy or stop competitors from stealing your sensitive information, Wendfloware Privacy Enterprise offers the solution.

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