They describe their method as "five-dimensional" optical recording and
say it could be commercialised.
The technique employs nanometre-scale particles of gold as a recording
medium.
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have
exploited the particular properties of these gold "nano-rods" by
manipulating the light pointed at them.
The team members described what they did as adding three "dimensions" to
the two spatial dimensions that DVD and CD discs already have.
SpeedItUp
Free will speed up any computer system running Windows XP or Microsoft Windows
Vista. It works by using New Hard-Disk optimization technology that allows your
computer to read data in some cases up to 300% faster from your Hard Drive.
SpeedItup Free then optimizes your RAM and makes other settings to speed up your
Internet connection and overall computer performance.
HDDLife - a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife uses
S.M.A.R.T. technology, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.
S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction. HDDLife displays
S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts the system administrator if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. SMART. Stands for "Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology." It is used to protect and prevent errors in hard drives. The SMART technology basically monitors and analyzes hard drives (hence the name), then checks the health of your hard drive and lets you know if there are any problems. The main purpose of SMART is to keep your hard drive running smoothly and prevent it from crashing. This technology reports on a variety of hard drive attributes. You need a compliant BIOS and SCSI and/or IDE controller.
Disk Bench. How fast are my disks really. In a real life situation. Not in a synthetic benchmarking program that will display figures that your drive will never be able to meet.
TDP x-Ray Lite is a visual disk
analyzer that enables you to spot large files and folder on your hard drives. It
displays a sunburst pie chart that sorts your files by size and location and
makes it easy to find the ones that take up the most space. You can click on the
chart to drill to the next level and also open, recycle or delete files. A Pro
version is available with features geared towards network administrators and
advanced users.
TDP x-Ray Lite you can easily find the answer to that question, and in a
very graphical way. This application analyzes the contents of your hard
drive and displays it in a colorful pie chart, where each section
corresponds to a specific folder or file and is sized accordingly. That
is, the bigger the section, the more space that folder or file takes on
your hard drive.
Wise
Disk Cleaner is a user friendly, fast and easy to use application developed
to free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used by any
software on your system.
DiskTriage
- Have you ever wondered where all your disk space has gone? Or what it is made
up of? Or who is using it? Windows does not provide easy access to any of this
information - but Disk Triage does! Disk Triage is a utility that sizes and
analyzes the contents of your disk space, providing the results via a wide
selection of tree views, graphs, reports and exports.
Blu-ray Disc standard optical storage Information
Your source for everything related to Blu-ray Disc (BD). We offer Blu-ray reviews, releases, news, guides and forums covering Blu-ray movies, players, recorders, drives, media, software and much more. For more information about Blu-ray,
Depositit automatically protects all the essential data you hold on your computer, laptop, mobile phone and PDA. Keep your data safe from damaging viruses, hardware errors & natural disasters.
MBR=Master Boot
Record.
FDISK /MBR rewrites the
Master Boot Record Note
Fdisk uses some 16-bit values
internally to calculate the size of the drive. Some of these variables
overflow when the drive size is equal to or larger than 64 GB. The Master Boot
Record (MBR) is the area of any boot drive that identifies where an
operating system is located so that it can be booted (loaded) into the
computer's main storage or RAM. The Master Boot Record is also sometimes
called the "master partition table" or "partition sector" because it
includes a table that recognizes each partition on the drive. A command
fdisk/mbr is sometime used to reset the MBR, do not use this command unless
you know what you are doing, it may write over-all partitions programs and
files on your hard drive making it unusable until it is repartitioned and
reformatted.
ClonePartition - Clone Disks and Partitions
Get 1 to 1 copies from your Partitions or whole Disk Drives. This tool is very small and don't need to be installed on your system. You can run it from a single floppy-disk.
DVD Flick aims to be a tool to convert various PC video formats to a DVD that can be played on pretty much any standalone DVD player. It's main target audience is people who know at least the basics about DVDs and video/audio files. DVD Flick is Open Source, meaning that anyone can download and view or modify the program's source code. It also means that it is absolutely free of charge
Disk Investigator
helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also
help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the
operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw
directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of
file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.
Video Help Helps you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, DivX, XviD, HD etc that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, Flash, etc. Includes DVD slideshow GUI offers a very simple way to make your own slideshows. Just import your images, export them as an authored DVD-image(.iso) and burn it! ISO Recorder Power Toy (Freeware). ISO Recorder is a Windows XP freeware utility that uses native Windows XP functions to write images to a CD. You can download this utility from the author's Web page. When the program is installed, it is automatically associated with the ISO file extension in Windows Explorer.
An ISO-9660 image file is an exact representation of a CD, including the content and the logical format. The most common use of an image file is to write it to a blank CD-R resulting in an identical copy of the original CD including file name and volume label information. ISO image files may also be opened and their contents copied to a local folder, much like ZIP files. ISO files may also be virtually mounted and accessed as a CD-ROM device.
Phantom CD, Mount your CD/DVD image files as virtual CD/DVD disc with Phantom CD. Use disc images for your CD and DVD backup. Replace your physical discs to avoid wear and tear on your optical drive, and to avoid disc problems resulted from heat, scratch, and dirt. Enjoy reading speed up to 200 times faster than a physical disc, allowing your application and games to start and run faster. More...
LightScribe It's easy to burn a label with LightScribe. Follow these short steps to start burning right away. Remember, making labels and burning your data are two separate steps. You may burn your data either before or after you burn your label. LightScribe lets you create discs with distinctive, unique designs. But did you know you can use your favorite photos for truly personalized label designs or collages?
It's easy to do. Here's everything you need to know to make it happen. LightScribe-enabled software will allow you to use your own photos. We've chosen two of the most popular suites to highlight. With any application, always preview to make sure your design looks right before burning it to a LightScribe disc.
Labelflash is a technology with which pictures and texts can be burned on the label side of a disc with
a laser.
YAMAHA CORPORATION and FUJIFILM Corporation jointly developed Labelflash™
technology. With a drive compatible with the latest developed laser
control technologies and a special disc with a dye layer on the disc
labeling side, images can be directly burned using the same laser used
for data recording.
All you need is a Labelflash™-compliant drive and disc, eliminating the
need for printers. Images last longer since the image surface is not
exposed and cannot be touched directly. These two points make Labelflash™
the smarter choice.
The difference between a Labelflash™ disc and an inkjet printable disc
is that a Labelflash™ disc can be printed on without using a printer.
The major advantages of this are; no printers or consumables such as ink
are required, no troublesome setting up of a printer is required,
you don't have to wait for the ink to dry, there is no ink-bleeding.
DiscT@2 (read aloud as "disc
tattoo") is a technology introduced by Yamaha that allows users to burn custom
motifs or images onto the data side of CD-R and DVD media when using a
Yamaha-branded or compatible drive. Other technologies such as NEC's LabelFlash
system allow the same functionality as DiscT@2, as well as the functionality
provided by systems such as Hewlett Packard's LightScribe. Yamaha stopped
production of CD/DVD burners in 2003.
LabelTag a circular label on
the data side of any DVD+R or DVD-R disc can be created containing basic
information visible by the eye. When burning the user data, the label is printed
directly behind that data in the same recording session, and on normal recording
speed on the same recording layer side. An older alternative disc labeling
technique was DiscT@2. To record the label on the opposite or back side of the
disc by the drive it self LightScribe and LabelFlash are current standards.
Besides that, printing using an inkjet printer is currently widely used.
UndercoverXP is a small program to
easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports
JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP
formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front +
inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct
sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor.
Disaster Recovery. Disaster recovery services, hard drive data recovery services and file recovery services for virtually all computers, devices, and environments at Vantagetech.com
Fast Defrag is a tool that can free and optimize RAM and the swap-file usage .It displays current memory usage and statistics and can also be run from the command line (useful for automation). Fast Defrag cleans only the memory that was filled by previous loaded applications and does not remove Windows components or active programs from memory.
XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option. Fred Langa shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation without losing data, and without having to reinstall user software, reformat, or otherwise destructively alter the
setup.
CD ROM Drive Remote Disabler. Allows you to easily enable or disable CD ROM drives on your Windows 2000, 2003, or XP systems - across your LAN.
Free Data Recovery Tools from ADRC - Free This is a freeware that enables users to backup confidential data easily. Deleted files can also be recovered with this software. Additional functions are disk image creation and restoration, boot sector editor or builder. RAID, (Redundant Array Independent Disks), Server and Hard Disk Data Recovery by ADRC (Singapore). RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). A collection of disk drives that offers increased performance and fault tolerance. There are a number of different RAID levels. The three most commonly used are 0, 1, and 5: Level 0: striping without parity (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disks). Level 1: disk mirroring or
duplexing. Level 2: bit-level striping with parity Level 3: byte-level striping with dedicated parity. ...
Auslogics Disk Defrag Disk
fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and
shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern
hard disks.
XP's Little-Known'Rebuild'Command There's an easy fix for "Missing
HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," and several other fatal startup errors, Fred Langa says. It usually takes a lot to stop XP in its tracks. Even in those rare cases when the operating system is badly damaged, you'll usually at least have the option of booting into the "Last Known Good" configuration, or to Safe Mode. But sometimes, especially after major hardware failures or part swaps (e.g. moving the operating system to a new hard drive), or after problems with dual- or multi-booting software, you may encounter seemingly intractable errors such as "Missing or corrupt
HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." These problems can seem hard to get past. For example, the first time I got a "Cannot find
\Windows\System32\hal.dll" error message, I thought I'd be clever and replace the missing file via a simple Copy command from the Recovery Console. I booted the PC, switched to the \Windows\System32 folder, and there it was: The HAL.DLL was already there. It wasn't missing at all. Why couldn't the operating system find it?
HD Tune a hard disk utility which has the following functions: Benchmark: measures the performance. Info:
shows detailed information. Health: checks the health status by using SMART. Error Scan: scans the surface for errors. Temperature display, etc...
Hard Drive Monitor is a free hard
drive diagnostic tool. This program can monitor all your hard drives in your PC, and show you one detailed report about your hard drives, include drive status,
drive information, spin-up time, drive temperature and more, all data will be updated in real time. Hard Drive Monitor will display a HD thermometer in the
desktop tray, so you will be able to view the value at a glance, being very useful for identifying probable drive failures.
NTFS, (New Technology File System). An NT Disk System. The disk file structure used by Window NT and Windows 2000, , (yes you can use it with XP, etc), which has a Master File Table instead of a FAT, File Attribute Table. NTFS allow larger single file storage this is good for video and other large files files etc. The FAT32 file system has a 4 GB limit for the size of file that it can accept to be saved onto it. This means that any attempt to save a file that is larger than 4 GB will be met with an error message of Disk is full or Not enough space even though the hard drive may have a large amount of space still available. Windows 98 and Me accept only FAT32 partitions, but Windows 2000 and XP accept both FAT32 and NTFS partitions. NTFS partitions have no limit for file size, so NTFS may be preferable for saving a file that is larger than 4 GB.
To reformat the hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS, follow these directions, SeaGate information.
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting.
Duplicate File Finder - Freeware. Most people are unaware of how many duplicate files there are cluttering their hard disks. All those songs that have been downloaded twice, holiday photos uploaded multiple times,
documents copied and pasted, so that you have them in two folders at once. All that wasted disk space can be reclaimed by simply deleting duplicate files.
Returning Spyware, keep getting a spyware report even after removal?
This may happen because of Windows XP system restore feature. This is able to restore your software to an earlier time. For example you've installed some software that has caused problems with your computer drivers and that even a standard uninstall does not fix it. In this case a system restores will be able to return your system back to before the time when you installed the problematic software.
System restore is semi-automatically able recovering eliminated files or the system settings for example if the where accidentally changed.
Windows XP keeps modified elements inside its hidden directory, called
_restore This is protected so that its contents can't be normally changed by anything else.
This feature is an advantageous if you need to return your system to an earlier state.
With anti-virus/anti-spyware it may cause an issue that while the anti-virus/anti-spyware may have removed the virus/spyware the
_restore files may still contain that virus.
The anti-virus/anti-spyware may detect again the infected file in the
_restore folder but it may not be able to remove it because the file is protected by the operating system.
How to remove anti-virus/anti-spyware from the System Restore folder:-
How to turn off System Restore option
Log on as the Administrator or with the details of
the user that has administrator rights.
Click with the right button of the mouse on My Computer.
Select Properties.
Click System Restore tab.
Click in the Turn off System Restore all drives checkbox.
This box should now have a tick in it.
(This may take a few seconds).
Click Apply and then OK.
How to reactivate the System Restore option, it is recommended that you have this option turned on.
Click with the right button of the mouse on My
Computer.
Select Properties.
Click in the Turn off System Restore all drives checkbox.
This box should now NOT have a tick in it.
(This may take a few seconds)
Click Apply and then OK.
After turning off the system restore, as sown above you may also need to download a program and install
WinDirStat
Will list out all your hard drives folders as well as in graphical
form.
It will allow you to access the System Volume Information folder.
Highlight the "_restore{ .....}" folder and then go to the menu to choose
"delete". Then the folder will be deleted.
Delete System File Information Utility.
This Utility is a DOS batch file and is used to delete System File Information.
This Utility is provided as-is without any warranty, obligation or
guarantee of any kind. THIS MAY AFFECT THE WAY WINDOWS RESPONDS and
PERFORMS. DO NOT CONTINUE UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU HAVE NO OTHER WAY
OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM. Note that the System Volume Information folders will be
rewritten by Windows. Even if you have System Restore turned off Before using
Turn OFF System Restore See above video how to.
I also suggest you perform a full Registry Clean:-
CCleaner is a freeware system
optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your
system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is
that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO
Spyware or Adware! :)
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry
cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough,
safe and fast.
WHQL, (Windows ® Hardware Quality Labs).
Sets the standards for device driver's certified by Microsoft® that are compatible with Microsoft Windows® and the respective hardware. Windows Hardware Quality Labs testing or WHQL Testing is Microsoft's testing process which involves running a series of tests on third-party (i.e. non-Microsoft) hardware
or software, and then submitting the log files from these tests to Microsoft for review. The procedure may also include Microsoft running their own tests on a
wide range of equipment, like different hardware and different Microsoft Windows editions. Also see Windows Logo Kit home page, Microsoft Windows Windows7, Vista. Windows XP, etc. and
Hardware. BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals
WinDirStat is a disk
usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current
variants).
NTFSWalker is a simple, straightforward, and most importantly free
utility for analyzing and “walking through” NTFS partitions on any media
readable by your computer, including hard disks, memory cards, USB flash drives,
and floppy disks. NTFSWalker takes you through the low-level structure of the
file system, and lets you view deleted files, regular files, as well as detailed
attributes for each file.
FATWalker is a simple,
straightforward, and most importantly free utility for analyzing and
“walking through” FAT partitions on any media readable by your computer,
including hard disks, memory cards, USB flash drives, and floppy disks.
FATWalker takes you through the low-level structure of the file system, and lets
you view deleted files, regular files, as well as detailed attributes for each
file.
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