A simple, straightforward, and easy to use data recovery utility. The DiskDigger application was designed to recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats. DiskDigger works by thoroughly scanning each sector of your media for traces of files.
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The simple way to clone a Windows disk to another disk, it makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk. Supports common internal disk drives (IDE, SATA, SCSI) and external USB/FIREWIRE drives. Competes with Norton Ghost, DriveImage, MaxBlast etc. This is much faster than any of them in typical daily backup.
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Create A Bootable Hiren’s Boot CD on USB Flash Drive (2018)Hiren's Boot CD has been updated to a Windows 10 PE with loads of PC Repair tools to fix all your. Hard Drive Data Recovery Partition, Create All in one Dos Bootable CD, Hiren's Boot CD, Hirens BootCD, Download Tools etc. Hiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. Since there are no official updates after November 2012, PE version is being developed by Hiren’s BootCD fans. It contains the fewest but best free tools. Format USB prepared. Remember to carefully format the USB in FAT32 standard! Hiren’s BootCD PE supports UEFI booting from DVD and USB flash drives. To format, re-partition your USB drive and to copy the ISO content into your USB drive properly, we have developed Hiren’s BootCD PE – ISO2USB portable tool. You need Administrator privileges to run it. It is free both for commercial and non-commercial use.
This is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and you can't find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and get the files back to life.
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PartitionRecovery is a free software utility that you can use when you have accidentally deleted a partition. The software will restore the files and folders. NTFS and FAT32 filesystems are supported.
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This is a great backup tool to create image files of any mounted or unmounted hard disk partition. SelfImage is the little hard drive utility with big aspirations. In its current incarnation, SelfImage is capable of making an image of a hard disk partition and writing it to another - useful for making backups. Use SelfImage to create a disk image of any partition and even partitions that Windows does not recognize (Linux partitions, etc). Additionally, when run on Windows 2 or XP, SelfImage can create images of partitions that Windows doesn't have mounted on a drive letter. Perfect for the dual-boot system, you can create an image backup of a Linux partition directly from Windows.
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Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Features:
- Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
- Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
- Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
- Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
- Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
- Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
- Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
- Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
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DiskCryptor is the only truly free disk encryption solution for Windows, provided under GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The application can encrypt hard disks, partitions, pen drives or CD / DVD, having a very low impact on performance. If you want to keep your data private, you should really try this application! Features:
- Disk partition encryption of any configuration, including boot and system partitions.
- Choice to select an encryption algorithm: AES, Twofish or Serpent. Cascaded modes are available as well.
- Full support for dynamic disks.
- Full support for encryption of external USB storage devices.
- Ability to create encrypted CD's and DVD's.
- High encryption performance, comparable to efficiency of a non-encrypted system.
- Support for hardware cryptography found in VIA processors.
- Support for disk devices with large sector sizes, which is important when working with hardware RAID.
- Automatic mount of disk partitions and external storage devices.
- Extended configuration possibilities of booting an encrypted OS. Support for different multi-boot scenarios.
- Full support for 3rd party boot loaders (LILO, GRUB, etc.).
- Ability to place boot loader on external medium and to authenticate using the key medium.
- Support for key files.
- Support for hotkeys to dismount partitions, initiate emergency system stop, etc.
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USB Disk Format Utility is a Windows based software used to format flash drives to FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partition types. Additionally, the drive can be made bootable by using system files from Dos or Windows 98 startup-disks. The format options provided are similar to what available in Windows. This utility does not support formatting of internal drives, CF, MMC, etc. All drives connected through the USB port of the computer is recognised and can be formatted using this software.
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This program copys a disk as a raw image from one drive directly to another. This 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.
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Access any remote computer via Internet just like sitting in front of it, even through firewalls. Features:
- Support, administration and screen-sharing in one package
- Remote administration of unattended servers
- File transfer
- Key exchange and AES (256 Bit) session encoding
- Remote support without installation
- Remote presentation of products, solutions and services
- Works behind firewalls
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Step 1
Connect USB Pen Drive (1GB or more)
Step 2
Download and Run USB Disk Storage FormatUSBFormat.zip (34KB)
Step 3
Download grubinst_guigrub4dos.zip (179KB) and Run as Administrator
Step 4
Insert the BootCD (10.3 or newer) in the CD Drive and Copy everything from CD to USB Flash Drive
Step 5
Copy grldr and menu.lst from grub4dos.zip (or from HBCD folder) to the usb drive
Step 6
Test Your USB Drive (read bottom of the page for troubleshoot)
Make sure you set your computer to boot from USB Flash Drive
To Enter the BIOS press the 'Del' button on your keyboard. Alternatives are'F1', 'F2', 'Insert', and 'F10'. Some PC's BIOS might even require a differentkey to be pressed. Commonly a PC will show a message like'Press [Del] to enter Setup' to indicate that you need to press the 'Del' key.Some AMI BIOS require you to enable the option 'USB Keyboard Legacy support'!
For AMI BIOS:
- Go to 'Feature Setup'. 'Enable' these options: 'USB Function Support',
'USB Function For DOS' and 'ThumbDrive for DOS'. Go to 'Advanced Setup'.
Set the '1st Boot Device' to 'USB RMD-FDD'.
Reboot the PC and it now should boot from the Usb Stick. - Go to 'USB Mass Storage Device Configuration'. Select 'Emulation Type'
and set it to 'Harddisk'. Go to the 'Boot Menu' and set the '1st boot device' to 'USB-Stick'. Exit the BIOS, saving the changes.
you can try 'Emulation Type' to 'Floppy' or 'Forced FDD'.
For PHOENIX/AWARD BIOS:
- Go to 'Advanced BIOS Features'. Go to the '1st Boot device' and set it to 'USB-ZIP'.
Troubleshoot
If you cannot install grub4dos (or you get 'cannot run background program' message) then use syslinux to boot grub4dos