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"Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. Cloning makes an exact copy of your old system drive on your new WD hard drive, including the operating system, applications, data, preferences, and email settings. Everything will be present and operate exactly as it did on your old hard drive."

"Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. This free portable partition encryption tool allows you working with files on the hidden partition without opening a special program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool."

"DiscWizard makes adding a new hard drive much easier. It can be used in several different ways. For example, you can use it to copy all the data from an old drive to the new one. The new drive will have the operating system, and will be bootable. DiscWizard can also partition and format a new drive for additional storage. "

Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives-changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks-that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space.

Specifically, Advanced Format is going to bring about some issues where older operating systems (and we're looking almost exclusively at Windows XP here) will inadvertently harm drive performance by making certain assumptions about the drives that will no longer be true.

# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. # Encrypts an entire partition or storage device (such as USB flash drive). # Encrypts a partition of Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication). # Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. # Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.

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Drive Utilities @ Major Geeks

MS essential tool for hard drive management.