HDD Tools

The system’s disk checking tool has always been a command with a handful of switches, and the switches have names that explain nothing to anybody […]

DiskPart is a built-in Windows utility that allows users to manage disks, partitions, and volumes through command-line instructions. Unlike graphical tools like Disk Management, DiskPart […]

The built-in formatter refuses to create a FAT32 volume larger than thirty-two gigabytes, and it refuses for no technical reason. The file system itself handles […]

Most people’s experience of copying files is a dialog with a progress bar that gives up when something goes wrong. Robocopy was built for the […]

Hard drives don’t usually fail without warning. They give you small clues for weeks or months before they finally die: occasional slow-loading files, the occasional […]

SpaceSniffer scans your drives and shows you the results as an animated treemap where every file and folder appears as a colored rectangle sized in […]

SymMover moves an installed program or game to another drive and leaves a symbolic link where it used to be. The system, the launcher and […]

Every drive in your machine keeps a running log of its own problems, counting reallocated sectors, logging temperature peaks and tracking how many hours it […]

A drive that has started throwing read errors puts you in an awkward spot. Copying files off it stalls, the system hangs for seconds at […]

FlashBoot puts an operating system on a USB stick, and it does so in more ways than any other tool in its category. The obvious […]

Drives run their own software, and occasionally the manufacturer issues a corrected version of it. WD Universal Firmware Updater finds Western Digital drives attached to […]

Find WD devices available through your network with WD Discovery, a simple tool to help you find WD drives and easily and quickly share their […]

Solid-state drives fail differently than hard drives. No clicking, no grinding, no warning theater, just a finite budget of write cycles quietly spending itself down, […]

Before anything else about this program, one instruction matters more than every feature it has. Stop writing to the drive you lost files from, immediately. […]

DiskGenius puts a partition editor, a file recovery engine, a disk cloner and a raw sector viewer into one window, and it hides none of […]