Floppy and Harddisk utilities

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DOS

0CD.ZIP CD CD-Rom Emulator v7.1 with source
CLEANER2.ZIP Disk Drive Cleaner v2 <ASP> Rosenthal Engeering. Cleans floppy disk drive R/W heads safely & effectively, preventing data loss, unreliable performance and errors due to microscopic foreign particles, dirt, dust, oxides and smoke that accumulates on heads. Preventative maintenance takes only about four minutes and requires no removal or mechanical disassembly of drive hardware. $16.50 which includes a special cleaning kit.
DISKLITE.ZIP Disk Light creates an on-screen version of the disk light that is usually on disk drives. The difference, however, is that this light will only be on as long as it takes to read or write to the disk. with asm source
DISKUSED.ZIP A utility to determine file sizes and disk space used in the current directory. A tool for exploring disk storage mechanics.
DOSLFN10.ZIP DOSLFNBK v 1.0 - Backs up/restores Win95 long filenames in DOS
DSEDIT.ZIP Edit or view disks or files, sector by sector.
DSKDUPV5.ZIP DISKDUPE TRIAL V5.0 R13 A disk duplication program used by professionals worldwide. Its features include single pass duplicating, automatic formatting and disk change sensing, byte-by-byte comparing, Relay and Cascade copying, 5.25" to 3.5" disk conversions, support for Microsoft's 1.68Mb DMF format, CRC protection of disk images, user definable jobs and much more. From Micro System Designs, Inc. $29.00
EBAK70.ZIP EASY BACKUP VERSION 7.0 Compressed Backup Disk Maker Easy Backup makes compressed self-restoring backups. Backup parameters are stored in a data file so subsequent backups can be menu selected. Options to backup one or more named directories with or without their sub directories. Keywords: BACKUP ARCHIVE COMPRESS Registration $25
FIPS12.ZIP FIPS is a program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions. With C++ source
SHOWSZ14.ZIP ShowSize V1.4 Directory sizing utility (DOS) Get a big picture of the disk space taken up by various directories on your hard disk. Ever wished for a DOS utility that can quickly find the total occupied size of a directory? ShowSize can help you do that and more. It also lists occupied-sizes of the top-level subdirs of a given dir. A real help when cleaning up to get more disk space! Also supports Win95 long names.
WASTE10.ZIP Wasted hard drive space reporter v1.0 Dos stores files in groupings called clusters. Even if a file only partially uses a cluster, dos registers the whole cluster as being in use, wasting the remaining unused sectors in that cluster. On average dos wastes 1/2 a cluster for every file on your hard disk! this program will report how much space you are loosing and help you decide if you will benefit from re-partitioning your hard drive. Freeware by dan ginsburg.


Windows

DISCAT41.ZIP This Program Will Read and Store all files and directories stored on Floppy disks for the future ability to find files stored on floppies. If you store large numbers of data files on floppy disk this program may assist you in finding that long lost file. (including Long File Names)
SAFESC.ZIP SafetyScan operates by regularly scanning your hard drive for various error producing files and then, optionally deleting them for you. SafetyScan targets a specific type of error producing files that common disk utilities, un-install, defrag, scandisk, and sweep type programs have missed. The error files that SafetyScan searches for and deletes can produce very hazardous results if not properly cleaned from your drive on a periodical basis.
SHCOP431.ZIP SH-COPYSTAR 4.31 by SCHENK & HORN Disk-Copy for Win95/Win NT/Win3.1+ with lots of options!
SMTCAT.ZIP The ultimate Windows Disk/CD Cataloger. MDI, ZIP, ARJ etc. support. Multiple mergeable catalogs. Unique extension concept allows analysing any format file to determine internal files or grab comments. Great searching capabilities. Label printing, WIN3.1 sound support, multiple display options, full font support. CSV export, 240 byte comments. Program launching, Virus Scans, File Printing, previewing & more!
SPACEH.ZIP Space Hound 1.75 Win Disk Utility Find duplicate files, "sniff out" wasted space and forgotton files. Includes printable directory tree which reports storage usage within nested directories. Version info display, file compare, file extension display, file and directory deletion, deletion tracking statistics, miscellaneous reports and more. Works great on networks also.


Windows 95 or NT specific

DCOPY33.ZIP (v3.3) Dcopy33.zip DiskCopy V3.3 DiskCopy is a simple little 32-Bit program for creating duplicate disks. Unlike Explorer, which needs to read the source disk for each disk you wish to create, DiskCopy prompts you for the number of copies you have in mind, making for a much quicker operation. Shareware $10.00 U.S. VB40032.DLL required. Ron Parker (CT Software) ron2222@aol.com.
DSKPIE20.ZIP Disk Piecharter for Windows 95 v2.00 Graphical Disk Explorer shows piecharts of disk usage. Full 32 bits implementation. Supports long filenames, multi-threading and a lot more.
FATWASTE.ZIP FatWaste v1.0 is a program to determine the amount of space wasted by FAT on your drive's filesystem. FatWaste is a Win32 console program, which should run under both Windows 95 and Windows NT. It has been tested under Windows 95. It may or may not run under Win32s--you're welcome to try it, but use under Win32s is unsupported.
HDSLEEP.ZIP Hard Disk Sleeper for Windows 95 V 1.40 With HDSleep you can control the Power Management of your IDE- and EIDE harddisk drives even if your Computer-BIOS does not support Power Management. You are able to define suspend times for one or all drives and you can activate/deactivate the PM just with a mouse click. HDSleep works with IDE- and EIDE-compatible drives only.
MDB.ZIP Michael's Disk Benchmark for Windows 95 (MDB95) v1.11