GSmartControl
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it. GSmartControl supports all major desktop operating systems, including Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and other BSD-style operating systems. Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology, or SMART, is a monitoring system for hard drives to detect and report various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. SMART is implemented inside the drives, providing several ways of monitoring the drive's health. It may present information about general health, various drive attributes (for example, the number of unreadable sectors), error logs, and so on.
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SystemRescue
SystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.
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CheckDrive
CheckDrive offers you an easy way of checking your PCs hard drives for errors. Those errors can be fixed immediately if you like. CheckDrive shows info about your drives and determines if your hard drive needs to be cleaned or fragmented. The CheckDrive Background Guard constantly monitors the values of your hard drives and alerts you immediately if an error occurs. So you know immediately if something is wrong. This application has been already optimized for Windows 10. You don't have to care which Windows operating system you have installed. Hard disks are the brain of computers, no one can afford to have them suddenly fail. So a security system should be installed urgently. The free Windows software CheckDrive specifically searches for hard disk errors so that they can be fixed before any real problems occur. The Abelssoft program is capable of analyzing hard drives of all kinds. CheckDrive can handle hard drives over 1 TB in size, external USB drives, or super-fast SSD drives.
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iSumsoft Cloner
iSumsoft Cloner is an excellent disk cloning software for Windows PC, which is used to copy or clone Windows OS, data partitions, and even entire hard drives. It makes Windows migration and data backup easier and more efficient, and lets you quickly upgrade or replace your computer’s hard drive without having to reinstall Windows or lose data. iSumsoft Cloner allows you to clone (copy) only the Windows OS from your computer's hard drive to another disk, such as from HDD to SSD, and remain the destination disk bootable. It creates an exact replica of the operating system drive only and does not copy other data partitions. The cloned system can run perfectly on the destination disk without any problems. With iSumsoft Cloner, you can easily back up the Windows OS or any data partition as an archive file, and restore the backup to the required disk whenever needed.
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