Acronis Hard Drive Monitor is a great utility for  monitoring the hard drives installed inside of your PC. Acronis specializes in hard drives and provides both commercial and free programs. The Acronis Hard Drive Monitor is one of their best free programs and is a great way to keep an eye on the physical condition [...]

If you’re not satisfied with your default Windows Disk Defargmenter Utility, GlarySoft’s Disk SpeedUp is a free and fast defragmentation tool to analyze, defrag and optimize disks for optimum PC performance. All disks accumulate clutter with data fragments due to daily frequent operations, such as installing/uninstalling of applications, peripherals, and file downloading/saving/deleting, which leads to [...]

Easeus has a free Non-Destructive Hard Drive Partition Utility called Partition Master 5.8.1 Home Edition. It is currently available for all modern versions of Windows with the exception of 64-bit Windows 7.  In an era were hard drives are so inexpensive and large, there isn’t normally a need to resize partitions. If you need anther [...]

Hard drive tools are available to download for your computer. Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate and other manufacturers have made it easy to copy your hard drive to a new retail drive with boot disks either shipped with the hdd or downloaded via their website. But a lot of computer users do not realize the benefits [...]

Defragging is like putting air in your tires. It’s something you need to do every once in a while, but it’s awfully tedious. Windows comes with a defragging tool, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t better ones out there. Certainly, there are great commercial-grade defrag utilities, but we like free. Auslogics Disk Defrag is a [...]

Major brand name hard drive manufacturers will usually include software with the purchase of a new drives. This software can help you partition, copy files from the old drive to the new drive, or even diagnose problems with your disk. We are including a list of the major hard drive manufacturers and the software they prvide [...]