Private Disk and Dekart Private Disk Light Software for Windows

ID Disk Protector
$47 - Fastlink2

ID Disk Protector is a very useful program that protects your computer against unauthorized access. It allows you to protect your disk and partitions and prevents applications from running without your consent.

Main Features:


- Protects your disk and its partitions
- Offers boot protection
- Provides a launching and operating password
- Keeps private the enable/disable of your disk
- Blocks any operations on the hardware level

Detailed features:

- Offers boot protection of your computer. Using ID Disk Protector, you will have to type your private password in order to get the system running and you will prevent others from accessing your PC.
- Encrypts passwords and stores them in the protected areas of the disk. No one can have access to them, but you.
- ID Disk Protector provides the option of having a password hint, in case you forget it. Without your password you can't disable the protection upon your PC and there is no other way to restore a lost password.
- Protects your disk and its partitions by keeping them invisible to the common user. The possibilities of handling the partitions will be limited, forbidding any action regarding their reading or writing.
- Offers at your request a low-level protection against your disk and partitions. ID Disk Protector prevents your hardware from any read/write operations.
- Secures any personal options you may have set using the ID Disk Protector. It provides a launch-operating password, filtering access to its features.
- ID Disk Protector discretely keeps private any protective measure you may have taken against your operating system. It doesn't show the fact that you may enabled/disabled the disk protection.
- ID Disk Protector has a sleek, easy to use graphic interface which requires minimal space on your computer to operate efficiently. The step-by-step wizard provided by the program enables ease of use.

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Paragon Encrypted Disk Personal
$29.95 - Paragon Software Group

Protect private and sensitive data from potential unauthorized access. No matter what is your particular needs, protecting your data on computer, sharing one computer between several persons or secured transfer of data to friend, co-worker or boss, Encrypted Disk will help you to fulfill your tasks. You can encrypt virtual disk image with one of modern and reliable encryption algorithms - Encrypted Disk supports Blowfish (448-bit key) and Triple DES (192-bit key). Encrypted disk can be mounted with any spare drive letter in the system, then every application and system process will have transparent access to the contents of encrypted virtual disk. You don't have to remember long and complex passwords, you can have key-file on a diskette or another removable media and use it to access encrypted disk image. Paragon Encrypted Disk is a system for those who are anxious for protection of their personal or professional information. The system allows to create virtual encrypted disks with all information on them encrypted and decrypted on the fly. The encrypted disk contents is stored as a binary file called the encrypted disk image. This file can reside on a hard drive, on a network drive, on removable media such as CD-ROM, JAZ, Zip, etc. Once an encrypted disk image is created it can be mounted as a virtual drive anytime and anywhere later. The disk image can be mounted only if a user enter an appropriate password or supply appropriate Key. Strong encryption algorithms used in the system guarantee that nobody can access your private information.

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Digital Secure Disk
$59.95 - SafeIT Security

SafeIT Secure Disk is a user-friendly program that allows you to prevent unauthorized access to restricted documents. The program makes a part of your current hard disk a secure disk. All private and confidential information stored on this disk will be protected using strong encryption. Now with unlimited disk size - store over 100 GB on a secure disk.

Your secure disk is only accessible by entering the correct password. The program is easy to install and the step-by-step guides will walk you through the process of creating your own secure disk. After installation, the user friendly interface makes securing a file as easy as copying it.

The encryption technology used supports several encryption algorithms, including the new AES-standard Rijndael with key length of 256 bits. If you prefer, you can also use Blowfish with a key length of 480 bits.

Main features
- Your ultimate solution for a laptop or workstation where you have a lot of sensitive information and you are looking for an easy to use solution that does not require any central administration.
- Full integration with Windows XP and a user-friendly interface with both a tutorial and an automatic guide that will help you get started in no time.
- Automatic updates of the software to ensure that you always have the latest version.
- Encrypts temporary files automatically since they are created in the secure disk where all information is encrypted.
- Supports the most popular encryption standards including the AES 256 Bits standard.

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O&O DiskStat Professional Edition
$29.95 - O&O Software GmbH

O&O DiskStat in the Professional or Server Edition gives users a quick overview of the usage of their hard disk. Operators can search by files or folders and establish which ones are taking up the most space and slowing down the system. This versatile tool offers a Windows-Explorer type interface and a whole range of options to combat space wastage.

After reading the hard disk the user gets an overview of the entire disk. Used space on every partition is displayed in user-friendly charts. The Top 10 function equally displays the largest files on the disk, facilitating quick and easy access to trouble areas.

Hard disk usage is not only relevant for home users. Companies often forget that hard disk performance can be drastically affected by ever-expanding storage, slowing down backups, access and defragmentation. The Server Edition has been specially developed to give administrators an overview of hard disk usage over a network.

The most important feature of the server edition is that it analyzes network drives. The display can also identify the users whose data is taking up the most space. These results can then be saved as reports in either XML or HTML format. Administrators can then identify early on when the hard disk is reaching capacity and plan for new hardware requirements well in advance.

O&O DiskStat is available in two versions: The Professional version is aimed at private users, and the Server Edition at Administrators. O&O DiskStat is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2003/2000 (Windows 2003 only with O&O DiskStat Server Edition) .

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ID Disk Creator
$47 - Fastlink2

ID Disk Creator is a utility program made up of series of tools enabling you to create alternative virtual drives on your computer. It works safely, offering a variety of possibilities, leaving your physical drives intact, as well as the disk partitions.

Main Features:

- Create and encrypts virtual drives
- Creates virtual CD-ROMs
- Offers protection of your data against any attacks
- Uses RAM memory as the basis of extra drive
- Provides extra drives without partitioning the real disk

Detailed features:

- Encrypts drives using the "AES256" algorithm in real-time mode and offering a 256-bit (32 symbols) password. ID Disk Creator denies access to all other users to the encrypted drive, making it available only to you in a separate Explorer window.
- Uses specific tools to create extra drive space without partitioning the real hard drive. ID Disk Creator uses files or even folders to create the additional drive needed to keep your information private.
- Uses RAM memory as the basis of additional drive space. It also prevents partitioning of your disk, but lets you store information in the virtual memory. After reboot, ID Disk Creator will automatically erase all information stored using the RAM drive tool.
- Stores temporary information (TEMP/TMP computer variables) and uses virtual drives created for applications which need maximum drive speed.
- ID Disk Creator helps you create virtual, perfect imagines of CD-ROMs, mounting them on your computer as virtual CDs.
- Stores all information created by the use of its tools in a special folder created on your hard disk. You can access an Explorer Window and determine the content of this folder by using the password provided.

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CryptoDisk
$29.95 - WinCrypto

CryptoDisk is a powerful tool for creating and managing virtual encrypted disks (encrypted volumes). It creates encrypted volume within a file on a hard drive or any external data storage device (flash memory card, USB drive, etc) and then mount it as a real disk. All the data are automatically encrypted using your password right before they are saved to disk or decrypted right before they are loaded, without any user intervention. Mounted volumes behave as real physical disk drives, however even when the volume is mounted, data stored in the volume is still encrypted.

Why do you need CryptoDisk?

To protect your sensitive information. For example, you can hide your personal information from other people who might have access to your PC, or encrypt your files on a removable storage device for transportation to prevent that the files can be accessed when the device is stolen or lost.

With the onset of the information age, laptops have become an invaluable resource to individuals and companies everywhere. However, laptop theft has been on the rise and as a result many organizations have found themselves victims of potential data breaches that affect their employees and customers, as well as their reputations. A stolen laptop often means loss of sensitive data that is stored on that machine, which is likely to lead to a risk of identity theft.

Depending on what is kept on a particular laptop, without proper security precautions a thief can easily get a hold of such information as personal bookkeeping files, Word documents containing passwords, addresses, as well as employee and customer information stored on a laptop.

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