Free software!
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
Having the utilities on hand to diagnose, troubleshoot and fix issues is imperative for geeks like us to do their jobs and hobbies. Yours truly is a proficient collector of freeware or GPL utilities that make my life a little easier, so I thought I'd share them with all of you:
GParted: With functionality similar to Acronis Disk Director, you can freely merge, move, resize, split and create partitions with this swanky liveCD.
Knoppix STD: Contains a vast collection of encryption, password recovery, networking and conversion tools for all sorts of security functions. Another liveCD.
Memtest: The grand daddy of all memory testing utilities, this bootable ISO will allow you to see if your blue screens and instability is from bad RAM. Icrontic has the hookup with another tutorial!
Drive Fitness Test (DFT): Courtesy of Hitachi GST, this hard drive testing tool does SMART analysis, sector-by-sector integrity scanning, interface tests, cable tests and more! Icrontic can help you give the tool a run, if you click over here.
TestDisk: An amazing piece of freeware that allows direct access to hard drives where the partitions, MBR or MFT have been borked. Did you know that Icrontic can help you with its usage?
Ghost4Linux: Need to archive an image of your hard drive, but can't afford Norton Ghost or Acronis TrumeImage? Ghost4Linux saves the day! Similar functionality, all for free courtesy of the GPL. Another convenient liveCD.
Dozens of freeware utilities: Courtesy of econsultant, this is a comprehensive list of freeware utilities that do darn near anything you can think of when it comes to getting your PC in fighting shape!
Have fun!
7/3 UPDATE: Long-time Icrontic member LIN studiously noticed that the final link in this post was broken. It seems that the eConsultant domain is having some configuration issues, so we've posted Google's cached page in its place. Cheers!
GParted: With functionality similar to Acronis Disk Director, you can freely merge, move, resize, split and create partitions with this swanky liveCD.
Knoppix STD: Contains a vast collection of encryption, password recovery, networking and conversion tools for all sorts of security functions. Another liveCD.
Memtest: The grand daddy of all memory testing utilities, this bootable ISO will allow you to see if your blue screens and instability is from bad RAM. Icrontic has the hookup with another tutorial!
Drive Fitness Test (DFT): Courtesy of Hitachi GST, this hard drive testing tool does SMART analysis, sector-by-sector integrity scanning, interface tests, cable tests and more! Icrontic can help you give the tool a run, if you click over here.
TestDisk: An amazing piece of freeware that allows direct access to hard drives where the partitions, MBR or MFT have been borked. Did you know that Icrontic can help you with its usage?
Ghost4Linux: Need to archive an image of your hard drive, but can't afford Norton Ghost or Acronis TrumeImage? Ghost4Linux saves the day! Similar functionality, all for free courtesy of the GPL. Another convenient liveCD.
Dozens of freeware utilities: Courtesy of econsultant, this is a comprehensive list of freeware utilities that do darn near anything you can think of when it comes to getting your PC in fighting shape!
Have fun!
7/3 UPDATE: Long-time Icrontic member LIN studiously noticed that the final link in this post was broken. It seems that the eConsultant domain is having some configuration issues, so we've posted Google's cached page in its place. Cheers!
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Thanks Thrax.
Rob FTW~
I prefer v2.01 from www.memtest.org as a bootable memtest program.