disk utilities

USBDeview - added 6/13/2008
USBDeview lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. For each USB device, exteneded information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more… USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer. You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.

Desk Drive - added 5/26/2008
Desk Drive solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window’s Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective. Desk Drive sits quietly in the system tray. Configuration (image at right) is just a click away and allows you to specify which types of media to monitor.

HFSLIP - added 11/21/2007
HFSLIP updates a Windows 2000, XP or 2003 installation source with the latest hotfixes. The binaries (individual files) of fully supported hotfixes are slipstreamed directly. This means that original files are being replaced with the newer versions present in the hotfix executables you can obtain from the Microsoft Download Center. In the rare occasion that a hotfix isn’t supported (usually because of it being a non-standard package or requiring a special installation procedure), it is integrated instead. HFSLIP leaves these uncommon hotfixes or updates as they are and places them in the SVCPACK folder, to be installed automatically near the end of Windows setup.

SysInternals - The Non-”p0wned” Collection - added 7/3/2007
The original Sysinternals software all right here, including including defragmentation utilities Contig and PageDefrag, diagnostic tools such as Process Explorer and RootkitRevealer, and also Process Explorer and many more!
via tinyapps

DriveLook - added 2/9/2007
DriveLook gives you a powerful forensic disk investigation tool, which enables you to index a hard drive for all text that was ever written to it, browse a list of all words stored on the drive, search for words or combinations of words, view the location of words or in a disk editor, and access remote drives over serial cable or TCP/IP.

Game XP - added 2/5/2007
Game XP optimizes the performance of your computer for gaming needs. It tweaks and modifies various XP settings (cache settings, CPU priority etc.) and optionally disables or stops several Windows services that are usually not needed. Game XP extends your operating system’s capabilities and makes Windows faster.

DiskInternals Linux Reader for Windows - added 1/10/2007
DiskInternals Linux Reader is a new easy way to do this. This program plays the role of a bridge between your Windows and Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems. This easy-to-use tool runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there.

Roadkil’s Sector Editor - added 1/10/2007
Roadkil’s Sector Editor allows displaying, editing, printing and searching of disks by invidual sectors. The information can be displayed and edited in both ASCII or hexadecimal. Sectors can be copied and exported to files.

HD-Workbench - added 1/9/2007
HD Workbench can evacuate data from a potentially failing disk to a ‘known to be good’ disk by creating a sector by sector copy (including the MBR, partition tables and boot sectors), or by writing the data to a raw disk image file.

Raw Copy - added 1/9/2007
Raw Copy copies a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. Raw Copy utility is designed for people who have faulty drive and want to transfer the data directly to another drive without doing a file by file copy. This saves the need for operating system re-installs and allows drives with an unknown file system to be copied (including from console game machines, data recorders, mac etc). The program has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive.

Scrounge NTFS - added 1/10/2007
Scrounge NTFS is a data recovery program for NTFS file systems that reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.

SelfImage - added 1/8/2007
SelfImage is a hard disk imaging utility which is capable of making an image file of a hard disk or hard disk partition, and can restore an image back to any drive or partition that doesn’t have open files. Useful for making backups. Unlike dd for Windows (or cygwin), SelfImage is capable of creating an image of a partition that is currently in use.

Disk Investigator - added 1/4/2007
Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.

Virtual Drive Creator - added 10/10/2006
The DOS SUBST command is a very powerful tool, even in Windows. It allows you to use a single (available) drive letter to specify a path which could be any number of folders deep, e.g. “c:\folder1\folder2\folder 3….\folder” (it’s been tested to 10 levels). Virtual Drive Creator (VDC) does exactly the same thing.

Alcohol 52% Free Edition - added 9/26/2006
Alcohol works as an emulation software that allows users to play CDs DVDs without the need for the physical disc. Notebook users and PC Game players benefit the most from Alcohol 52% which supports 25 languages. It can handle up to 6 virtual CD DVD-ROM drives, all at once. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X. This means you can play a CD from the virtual CD-ROM with 200X reading speed. Supports normal CD DVD and CD RAW sub-channel reading methods: RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs.

Virtual CD Manager - added 8/4/2006
With Virtual CD Manager you can manage your lots of image files of CD/DVD (*.ISO) with database, and can open them like in a physical CD-ROM , write memo, search etc, it’s very easily and burn them into CD/DVD directly.

Drive Manager - added 8/3/2006
Drive Manager can be placed on your desktop to be used as an alternative to the “My-Computer” shortcut. It can also be used to hide drives from explorer. Double clicking on a drive will open it in explorer. The current version can create substitute drive letters for local folders.

Dead Disk Doctor - added 7/19/2006
Dead Disk Doctor – allows copying files from scratched or damaged CD, DVD disks, unreadable Floppy and Hard Drives or other media. It replaces lost data with random bytes reading files by expandable blocks.