External Hard Drives

View and browse PDF documents stored on your system's hard drive or an external drive

PRO: Helpful zooming feature for full browsing
CON: Limited amount of options available
Vote: 4.0/10 (3 votes) Platform: Windows

Utility to recover files from removable media

PRO: Retrieves files well
CON: Upgrading requires another download and installation
Vote: 8.0/10 (19 votes) Platform: Windows

Great tool that mends bad sections on a variety of drives

… that if it happened once, it will never happen again. Backing up your files in the cloud or on an external hard drive …

PRO: Clearly marks recovered files
CON: Total novices may still be overwhelmed
Vote: 7.8/10 (58 votes) Platform: Windows

Excellent freeware that cleans thumb drives and creates boot drives

… operating systems, but it works with most flash drives, external hard drives, and disks too. When you plug …

PRO: Trusted developer
CON: Needs to be run as an administrator
Vote: 6.6/10 (151 votes) Platform: Windows

A program for Windows that can completely wipe the contents off of a hard drive

PRO: Asks for confirmation twice
CON: Partitions are listed as separate drives, which may be confusing
Vote: 5.2/10 (24 votes) Platform: Windows

Simple utility for managing hard drives and hard drive data partitions

… There are many reasons that a PC user may want to partition their hard drive, and the AOMEI …

PRO: Comes with a Windows To Go Creator
CON: Some features hidden behind a paywall
Vote: 7.0/10 (2 votes) Platform: Windows

Rip DVDs for free to save and protect movies on a hard drive

… to transfer DVDs to the PC and other external devices, making them entirely digital. The process is very quick …

PRO: Puede convertir cortes de vídeo
CON: No tiene un reproductor de vídeo integrado
Vote: 4.0/10 (95 votes) Platform: Windows

A program for Windows that can create a recovery drive image for external device storage

PRO: Cheaper and simpler than Norton
CON: Interface is basic
Vote: 9.7/10 (4 votes) Platform: Windows

Retrieve a variety of lost files from any thumb drive

… on any external hard drive or USB flash drive. If you're like many people, you probably have a few …

PRO: Affordable but still, world-class service
CON: No technical support service for free version
Vote: 10.0/10 (37 votes) Platform: Windows

Utility that can retrieve files from a variety of drives

… formatted file recovery can help you look for an older version of a saved file on your hard drive …

PRO: Preview data before recovery
CON: Not much difference between scan modes
Vote: 8.0/10 (1490 votes) Platform: Windows