If you accidently deleted some important data from your computer hard disk, here is a free and handy tool to restore your accidently deleted hard drive data. Named as DataRecovery, it is a useful application that lets you restore all your accidently deleted files.

DataRecovery application is capable of recognizing and differentiating between NTFS, FAT 12, FAT 16 and FAT 32 hard drives. Thus, it can easily undelete files stored on hard drives and re-allocate them to their former locations.

Besides restoring the deleted hard drive data, this tool can also be used to search and restore only selected files. The deleted files can be searched by file name and also by the partial string from their file name. Once the search result is reached, you can restore the desired file with just a few clicks on your mouse.

DataRecovery application is colossally compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista and can be conveniently used from any floppy disk or USB drive.

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If you have loads of private files that you would like to keep on a shared computer, creating a secret local disk is a good option that you should consider bringing to utilization. Creating a secret local disk is not a gruel task to accomplish. A tiny freeware utility named Secret Disk can do the work in few simple steps.

Secret Disk is a utility that creates a separate partition on your hard disk which can be locked and unlocked by a password. The partition of the hard disk so created will remain inconspicuous when locked and will show up only when unlocked by the correct password. The utility has further been enhanced by an added feature that automatically locks the partition on the next system boot after power-failure or when you press emergency F8 button.

Secret Disk is free for use and supports only Windows XP and Windows Vista. Interested users can get an immediate download at the PrivacyRoot.com website or from the links below.

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Most computer users have a huge hard disk capacity and so practically none bothers to find out how is their hard disk being used. However if you would like to see your hard disk composition and usage, Space Sniffer can map it out for you in a simple Tree map visualization layout. This Tree map visualization layout will let you easily perceive an aerial view of your hard disk content.

Space Sniffer is free and a portable software. You just need to execute the application and it will automagically scan through your hard disk and give details of your hard disk storage in spatial form. Files and folders will be shown as color boxes of various sizes depending on size of the file/folder. You can just zoom in or zoom out to perceive things better. Clicking on the colored boxes will give you a closer look of the folder. You can also give a single click on any box for the detailed information about the contents of that respective file/folder. Besides, you also have options to customize the color code for better visualization.

Space Sniffer, as already mentioned, is a freeware. This application is compatible with Windows system and can be downloaded to be used from any main or portable device.

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Some softwares are restricted by number of software installations or number of activation. These softwares use the Volume Serial Number to track where and how many times the software has been installed or activated. Volume Serial Number is unique and it changes when you format your hard disk. Some softwares (that are controlled by Volume Serial Number verification) might not work on your PC due to not able to recognise the old volume serial number. If you would like to change your hard disk Volume Serial Number to previous serial number to solve this issue, you can use Hard Disk Serial Number Changer.

Hard Disk Serial Number Changer is freeware and handy to use. This software utility is capable of changing your Hard Disk serial number to your preferred number. Prior to format your hard disk, you must note the volume serial number so that you can change the volume serial number back to your previous one after its formatting.

To get the serial number, just go to command prompt, then type ‘dir’ and press enter, the volume serial number will get listed as shown below:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>dir
Volume in drive C is OSDisk
Volume Serial Number is 12AF-YYZZ

Once you have changed the volume serial number using this utility, you must restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Hard Disk Serial Number Changer works with file systems like FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS. The utility is compatible to run in Windows Vista/XP/ME/2003/2000/98/NT. If you plan to format your hard disk but still wants to maintain its software compatibility, this tool is definitely useful and worth using.

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It is almost a must for a hard disk lover to run disk clean up utility once every 3 or 6 months to free up your hard disk. Normally, disk clean up scan process will take much time to complete the scanning process as it scans through old compressed files as well. We can reduce the scanning time by instructing the utility to not scan the old compressed files.

Disk Cleanup in Windows Vista

To speed up scanning process, you need to delete old compressed files from registry editor. Just follow the steps below. Before starting, you may want to backup your registry in case you want restoration of your registry to orginal settings.

1. Go to start and then click on “Run…”

2. Type regedit and press enter.

3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches

4. Click on Compress old files registry entry.

5. Press ‘delete’ button to delete the entry.

6. Restart your computer in order to take effect of change.