Media disk checking utility in Title/Summary

Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility

Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility is a command-line tool for content producers converting pre-recorded audio and video to Windows Media 8 for an on-demand delivery. Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility offers: - Encodes Windows Media 8 content for on-demand streaming and download-and-play. - Enables Two-Pass Encoding to optimize quality for on-demand (streamed or download-and-play) content.

• Publisher: Microsoft
• Last updated: November 16th, 2011

Paragon Hard Disk Manager™ 15 Business

Hard Disk Manager 15 Business is a disk management utility.Main features: - Easily recover files, databases, mailboxes, emails and other items. - Comprehensive recovery environments based on DOS, Linux, and WinPE. - Boot problem correction without restore.

• Publisher: Paragon Software
• Home page: www.paragon-software.com
• Last updated: November 2nd, 2015

Media Checker

This utility program will help you check all your media (fixed or removable like diskettes, zip, magneto-optical disks, or CD-R,...) and ensure that all your precious data that you store on them are safe and can be accessed successfully.

• Publisher: Noël Danjou

Media disk checking utility in Description

HGST Align Tool

It is a neat, simple, and free disk maintenance utility that checks your partitions for alignment issues and lets you fix them if any such issues are found. HGST Align Tool is very easy to use, and it has a self-explanatory wizard-like interface that guides you step by step through the whole process of partition alignment checking and fixing.

• Publisher: Acronis
• Home page: www.hgst.com
• Last updated: September 18th, 2012

MicroSpell

This complex spell-checker uses an original approach that is very effective. By doing so, it manages to considerably reduce the time needed to correct words in a document. It also makes the task much less frustrating because it gives a much better view of misspelled words, suggestions, contexts where they were found, all in one cleverly-organized window.

• Publisher: Trigram Systems
• Home page: www.microspell.com
• Last updated: April 13th, 2012

Active@ Disk Image

Active@ Disk Image is a PC disk image software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.

• Publisher: LSoft Technologies Inc.
• Home page: www.disk-image.com
• Last updated: February 27th, 2024

GNU Aspell

GNU Aspell is a command-line spell checking utility. It is intended for advanced users, or, most commonly, integrated transparently with some other application. It is very likely that you already use it without even realizing. There are dictionaries available for a wide range of languages.

• Publisher: Kevin Atkinson
• Home page: aspell.net
• Last updated: February 13th, 2012

WeatherBar

WeatherBar is a small and simple freeware that displays the weather forecast for your location in a very convenient manner, right on your desktop. Unlike the many other similar weather forecast displaying tools that require you to access their main windows in order to see the weather data, this one provides a different approach. It can display the weather info right on the taskbar.

• Publisher: DennisDelimarsky
• Last updated: September 10th, 2013

Additional Media disk checking utility selection

Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool

This HDD Low Level Format utility is free for home use. It can erase and Low-Level Format a SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI or SSD hard disk drive. It will also work with any USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures as well as SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash media.

• Publisher: HDDGURU
• Last updated: November 29th, 2013

SpeedFan

SpeedFan is the popular utility meant for accurately monitoring the status of your computer’s hardware devices. Anyway, besides helping you keep a close eye on the parameters of your hardware components, this powerful and feature-rich program also lets you change your computer's fan speeds.

• Publisher: Alfredo Milani Comparetti
• Home page: www.almico.com
• Last updated: June 26th, 2020

SeaTools for Windows

SeaTools for Windows is a free hard disk diagnostic utility. In addition to diagnostics tests, SeaTools also offers several features to help you manage your storage product. Seagate Instant Secure Erase is available for Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), providing U.S government accepted media sanitization.

• Publisher: Seagate Technology LLC
• Home page: www.seagate.com
• Last updated: August 1st, 2023

HD Tune Pro

HD Tune Pro is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more. Main features: - Basic tests: added option for continuous testing - Erase: range can be specified - Monitor: transfer sizes of 128 KB to 2 MB added

• Publisher: EFD Software
• Home page: www.hdtune.com
• Last updated: November 8th, 2011

Puran Utilities

Puran Utilities is a versatile system optimization suite. It can fix and defragment registry errors. Likewise, it can preserve your privacy by removing traces of your activities. It comprises various utilities to optimize disk and memory usage. It also has some tools to recover lost data from storage media.

• Publisher: Puran Software
• Last updated: February 6th, 2013

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a freeware disk utility that monitors the status of your hard drives and scan for bad sectors. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T).

• Publisher: LSoft Technologies Inc.
• Last updated: May 8th, 2023

Aiseesoft Total Media Converter

Aiseesoft Total Media Converter is more than its name implies. Besides helping your convert video and audio files to various formats, this program also gives you access to a wide variety of editing options to help you improve the quality of your media files.

• Publisher: Aiseesoft Studio
• Home page: www.aiseesoft.com
• Last updated: June 30th, 2023

DiskCheckup

DiskChekup can collect and process information about hard disks, including SMART attributes. Fortunately, it supports multiple types of connection interfaces, such as ATA, USB and Firewire. The program is actually very simple, but the real complication appears if you don't know how to interpret the data provided.

• Publisher: Passmark Software
• Home page: www.passmark.com
• Last updated: August 2nd, 2021

MediaPlayerLite

MediaPlayerLite is a feature-rich yet free media player that can play videos, music, DVDs, streams, and so on. It’s a powerful media player based on the open source Media Player Classic utility, therefore it also incorporates many of the features and benefits that lead to the popularity of the original tool.

• Publisher: MediaPlayerLite
• Home page: www.mediaplayerlite.net
• Last updated: September 21st, 2022

TreeSize Professional

TreeSize lets you visualize the space usage of your storage system using charts. It can scan Windows folders, FTP, WebDAV, and SharePoint servers, mobile devices, Amazon S3, and also Unix/Linux systems via SSH. You can see the size of all folders including sub-folders and break it down to the file level.

• Publisher: Joachim Marder, JAM Software
• Home page: www.jam-software.com
• Last updated: June 16th, 2023