HD Workbench is a Windows 2000/XP utility that can be used to examine your disk's health, utilizing SMART and reading and writing disk-surface tests. Data can be evacuated from potentially failing disks by making an exact sector-by-sector clone of the failing drive. Individual volumes can be backed up to raw image files, and the MBR and individual boot sectors can be backed up...

DIY DataRecovery DiskPatch is a powerful DOS utility that helps to recover (undelete) deleted partition and logical disks on PC hard drives, repair boot sectors, run surface tests (repair bad sectors), wipe disks or selected partitions and even clone bad disks. It can back up the hard disk layout: MBR (Master Boot Record), partition tables, boot sectors, or even the LDM on Dynamic disks and restore from backup if the structures describing the d..

DiskPatch is a professional data recovery utility that recovers data by repairing corrupt disk structures, like the partition tables. DiskPatch is designed to tackle the common issues that prevent you from accessing your data; a corrupt MBR, corrupt partition tables, accidentally deleted partitions, corrupt boot sectors, and 'bad' sectors. Effective partition undelete, partition recovery, fixboot, bad sector repair and disk cloning.

DiskTune is an easy to use, on-demand, no frills disk optimizer and defragmentation utility for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS formatted drives. Through a simple to use mechanism to create 'jobs' it enables you to launch one-click jobs and schedule jobs. DiskTune is freeware. DiskTune will reorganize your disk and will make it faster and more responsive. DiskTune features a VSS safe-mode and a thermal monitor.