Hard Drive Tools

- Hard disk imaging/cloning tools -

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Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.

Limitations:

• The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one.
• Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet.
• Online imaging/cloning is not implemented yet. The partition to be imaged or cloned has to be unmounted.
• Due to the image format limitation, the image can not be explored or mounted. You can _NOT_ recovery single file from the image. However, you still have workaround to make it, read this.
• Recovery Clonezilla live with multiple CDs or DVDs is not implemented yet. Now all the files have to be in one CD or DVD if you choose to create the recovery iso file.

Download Clonezilla

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- Hard disk partition editing tools -

GParted

GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.
With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, enabling you to:

• Grow or shrink your C: drive
• Create space for new operating systems
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

Features

• Perform actions with partitions such as:
  • create or delete
  • resize or move
  • check
  • label
  • set new UUID
  • copy and paste

Download GParted

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- Hard disk wipe tools -

ShredOS (for spinning drives)

ShredOS is a USB bootable small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing your disks using the program nwipe. ShredOS boots very quickly and depending upon the host system can boot in as little as 2 seconds. Nwipe will then list the disks present on the host system.

Download Shredos

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SSD Wipe tools

Here's some quick links to manufacturers' software you can try.  We haven't tested to see if all of these have secure erase features that work with all of their drives.

• Samsung SSD Magician(opens in new tab)
• Western Digital Dashboard(opens in new tab)
• Kingston SSD Manager(opens in new tab)
• SK hynix SSD Tools(opens in new tab)
• Adata SSD Toolbox(opens in new tab)
• Sabrent Control Panel(opens in new tab)
• Crucial Storage Executive(opens in new tab)
• SeaTools for Seagate Drives