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Free Disk Cloning, Backup and Erasing Software.
High-speed disk management toolkit for Windows. Backup, clone, erase and restore entire drives with ease. Free CLI support included.
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Browser-Based HDD/SSD Health Analysis.
Hard drives report their health using a system called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). You can read this data using command line tools like smartctl, but the output is often hard to read. Manufacturers store data in raw hexadecimal values. A read error rate might look like 0x00000ab42 in a terminal. This could be zero errors, or it could be thousands, depending on how Seagate, WD, or Toshiba encoded the data. This viewer attempts to decode those raw manufacturer-specific values to tell you if a "high" number is actually bad, or if it is just a routine counter.
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Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid. VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe. If you are familiar with dwipe from DBAN then you will feel right at home with ShredOS and nwipe. What are the advantages of nwipe over dwipe/DBAN? Well as everybody probably knows, DBAN development stopped in 2015 which means it has not received any further bug fixes or support for new hardware since that date. Nwipe originally was a fork of dwipe but has continued to have improvements and bug fixes and is now available in many Linux distros. ShredOS hopefully will always provide the latest nwipe on a up to date Linux kernel so it will support modern hardware.
a free computer cloning solution.
FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging/rescue suite/inventory management system. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Window 8/8.1, and Windows 10, Windows 11 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes features like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan, task scheduling, inventory management, remote deployment of OS's, and remote installation of software packages. Features can be triggered through the web GUI, once the client machine has been registered with FOG.