Hard Drives
Treesize Free is a Simple Disk Space Visualizer [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: We've previously highlighted some disk space visualization tools with all kinds of neat graphics, but Treesize Free shoots for just the opposite—a clean, simple interface showing h ....... read more
11 days ago
FragExt Defrags Individual Files [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application FragExt adds an entry to your right-click context menu so you can defragment individual files on demand. To use it, just right-click the file you want to defrag, then se ....... read more
7 days ago
Clonezilla Backs Up and Restores Your Disks [Featured Download]
All platforms: Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image. Unfamiliar with the process of disk cloning? In a nut ....... read more
13 days ago
Speed Up Linux Hard Drives by Disabling Atime [Linux Tip]
The Hackosis blog notes a contentious conversation thread between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and a programmer who finds that disabling the atime option, which writes a last-accessed time to every si ....... read more
19 days ago
Buy a LaCie Hard Drive, Get a Year of Free Backups [In Brief]
Windows only: The latest Hard Drives from LaCie will come packaged with an installer CD that includes a year of free backups with Carbonite — which normally costs $49.95. I've been a fan of LaCi ....... read more
23 days ago
Upgrade Your Laptop with External Hard Drive Swap [DIY]
If you've got a MacBook past warranty and are looking for more hard drive space, Seattlite Tim Molter offers a detailed step-by-step guide to a do-it-yourself upgrade with photos. His method is partic ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
TrayDiskFree Monitors Hard Drive Space in Your System Tray [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application TrayDiskFree is a tiny executable that adds an icon to your system tray displaying the free space of any drive you choose—and that's about it. If TDF doesn't mesh ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
EASEUS Partition Manager Professional Free Today Only [Featured Download]
Windows/Linux only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering up the "Professional Edition 2.0" of EASEUS Partition Manager, a free tool for formatting, moving, and resizing partitions on a hard dr ....... read more
Fri,
26 Sep 2008
Install a New Hard Drive in a MacBook [How To]
It's easy to install a new hard drive in your desktop computer, but laptops can be a whole other ball of wax, because the drive is usually wedged deep into the notebook's innards and it takes a lot mo ....... read more
Thu,
04 Sep 2008
Skip the File-Wiping if You're Caught File-Sharing [File Sharing]
The defendant in a much-watched file-sharing case was dealt a serious blow this week when a judge ruled he tampered with evidence in the case. After first getting notice from the Recording Industry As ....... read more
Thu,
28 Aug 2008
FosiX Lite Visualizes Your Disk Usage [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Disk utility FosiX Lite is a visual hard disk analyzer in the vein of previously covered WinStatDir and JDiskReport. What sets FosiX apart is the interactivity of the bar charts and pie ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
EASEUS Disk Copy Makes a Fast Clone of Your Hard Drive [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only All platforms: Free boot CD EASEUS Disk Copy copies any disk or partition sector-by-sector for an exact copy of the original. Disk Copy is a perfect tool for upgrading your operating syst ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
CampTune Non-Destructively Resizes Your Boot Camp Partition [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: Free-for-now boot CD CampTune resizes your Boot Camp partition when the size of the Windows installation on your dual-booting Mac bumps against its limits. Without a tool like CampTune, ....... read more
Sat,
09 Aug 2008
EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move partitio ....... read more
Wed,
06 Aug 2008
HDDScan Performs Hard Drive Diagnostics [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free utility HDDScan diagnoses whatever ails your hard drive. HDDScan works on ATA, SATA, and SCSI drives and (with some limitations) on removable drives such as USB and FireWire. Analy ....... read more
Thu,
24 Jul 2008
HFSExplorer Reads Mac-Formatted Hard Drives [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free, open source application HFSExplorer reads and extracts files from drives formatted with the HFS+ file system native to Macs. Common uses for HFSExplorer include reading files from ....... read more
Tue,
22 Jul 2008
Ramlog Switches Your Linux Logs to RAM to Save Battery, Hard Drive Life [Featured Linux Download]
Linux only: Linux systems are constantly writing status updates to a variety of different system logs—great news for debugging developer-types, not so great for anyone trying to save battery lif ....... read more
Wed,
16 Jul 2008
Darik's Boot and Nuke Securely Wipes Your System in an Emergency [Featured Download]
Free, open-source boot disk utility Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) automatically and completely deletes the content of every hard disk it can find on your computer when you run it. Sure you can fire up ....... read more
Thu,
17 Jul 2008
TrueCrypt 6.0 Cranks Up Multi-Core Speed, Adds OS X/Linux Features [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac/Linux: TrueCrypt 6.0, the latest and improved version of the powerful software encryption tool, has been released. New to this version are the additions of hidden volume tools—the ab ....... read more
Mon,
07 Jul 2008
Turn Vista Home Premium into Ultimate with Free Software [How To]
The Mysticgeek blog at the How-To Geek's site has a clever series of posts up that use free software tools to give Windows Vista Home Premium—the version that most often ships with standard lapt ....... read more
Fri,
11 Jul 2008