External Hard Drives

CopyWipe (WinConsole)
Free - TeraByte Unlimited

CopyWipe is a free utility for copying or securely overwriting (wiping) entire hard drives. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the transition to a new hard drive as well as help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered. A number of options are provided for wiping, most of which exceed governmental standards (such as DoD 5220.22-M, NAVSO P-5239-26, etc.);

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Icon Remover
Free - IconRemover.com

Some new USB devices such as ADSL cable modems, SATA HDD drives, ZIP Drives, External CDROMs are hotplug devices. A hotplug device means that you can remove the device any time without switching off the computer. If you want to remove the device, click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray (a small green arrow near the clock). It's possible that you never unplug this device. So how do you get rid of the icon? Try Icon Remover!

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BackUp Maker
Free - ASCOMP Software GmbH

BackUp Maker is the professional solution for creation of data-backups. The ease of use as well as the range of functions enable you to create backup tasks for saving files and folders with a lack of time. An integrated CD/DVD driver enables you to write backups directly to CD/DVD. Additionally BackUp Maker supports writing to internal and external hard drives (local and network area), any USB devices as well as zip drives and FTP servers.

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CompuApps SwissKnife V3
Free - CompuApps, Inc

If you are looking for an external hard disk drive solution that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife does it for you. You can create, delete partitions and format your IDE hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process. While the product has been tested up to 400GB, it should support hard disks of up to 2048GB.

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HDDlife
Free - BinarySense, Ltd.

Worried about a hard drive failure? Get HDDlife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDlife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. Zero failures, 100% FREE to download and try.

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Express PC Audit Tool
Free - Express Metrix

Audit your PC's hardware and software. It's easy and fast. Printable, exportable reports. Data collected: hardware attributes (processor, memory, disk drives/storage, ports/input devices, box/board/BIOs, video, printers); software details (OS, installed products/versions, running processes, services); and user information (desktop configuration, startup commands, network connections, environment variables). Great for personal or business use.

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