- Name: Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 build 2239
- File Size: 68.59MB
- Date: 24 Dec 2009
- License: Shareware
- Price: $49.99
- Eval: 15 days
- System Requirements: Win 2000/XP/Vista/Vista x64, 128MB RAM, A floppy or a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive, A mouse (recommended).
Developer's Description: "Acronis Disk Director Suite, by Acronis is a powerful program for working with and revising hard disks. The program can be used to partition your hard drive and manage the contents. The program is a suite because it comes with a number of specialized tools for working on your hard drive. With the Partition Expert you can actually move, resize, split, and even merge partitions. And what's really cool is that you will not lose data in the process. Slick! Acronis Disk Director Suite even makes it easy to run more than one operating system from your hard drive. This is what you'll sometimes hear called a "dual boot system". Imagine being able to boot to Windows or to Linux depending on what you wanted to do. The functionality of Acronis Disk Director Suite allows you to create a dual boot system to significantly facilitate computing. Another module of the suite is the Recovery Expert which you can use should you accidentally delete a partition. Not long ago I had an entire partition just suddenly disappear and I used this program to get it back in a snap. Acronis Disk Director Suite has an intuitive user interface and is very easy-to-use. I really like the feature to merge two partitions into one partition. Why? Well because it lets you leave all your data in place, which is such a time-saver. So, for example, say you had a drive D and a drive E. You could "merge" everything from drive E into an expanded drive D. Or, you can do the opposite and take one, large drive and split it into two drives. Nicely done!" More info-Acronis
- Name: Ashampoo HDD Control 1.11
- File Size: 8.59MB
- Date 17 Feb 2010
- License: Shareware
- Price: $24.99/€24.99 Buy Now!
- Eval: 30 days (expires)
- System Requirements: Win XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 7 x64, 128MB RAM
Developer's Description: "As long as the drive is functioning properly, you are lulled into a false sense of security. However, when the trusted hard drive suddenly fails, this is more than just a minor inconvenience. The resulting loss of data is often immensely damaging. Ashampoo HDD Control is therefore ideally suited to boost the performance of your drive, guard against disk failure and remove clutter from your hard drives, while performing all three functions of monitoring, maintenance and defragmentation.
- Monitoring: The software supports all commonly available IDE and serial ATA drives. Devices connected to the system via USB, firewire or RAID controller often do not support this function. Based on the type of drive in use, Ashampoo provides the user with all important facts and information, including the firmware version, cache size, number of configured partitions, drive space and current temperature. In the final report, the program also provides information on the health and performance of the hard drive.
- Maintenance: Over time, an ever-growing number of unwanted and unneeded files accumulate on your hard drive and Ashampoo HDD Control is a useful tool to help you locate and delete these files. Temporary files, files in the recycling bin and backup copies are all removed. In addition, the software empties the cache, clears the browsing history and erases cookies from the Internet browser.
- Defragmentation: With its defrag module, the program is able to read out file fragments and arrange these in one cluster on the hard drive to ensure rapid access. As a result, the hard drive needs to spin less while the performance remains unchanged. As an additional benefit, there is less demand placed on system resources. Proactive defragmentation uses the time when you are not working to measure the level of disk fragmentation. If it needs to be defragmented, the process is started automatically.
- Languages Supported: English, German, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Arabic, Dansk, Catalan, Vietnamese, Slovakian, Byelorussian."
- New in this release:
- Added support for common solid state drives.
- Implemented some small optical adjustments.
- Fixed several minor problems.
More info-ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG