Formats USB drives to various file systems and creates bootable USBs from ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable sticks and offers BIOS or UEFI options.
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links.
- Shell Extension
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- File Explorer
- Chocolatey
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
RMPrepUSB allows the Windows user to easily and quickly 'roll their own' multiboot USB drive.
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but...
- File Search Utility
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location.
- Bootable USB Creator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.
- File Recovery Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Undelete deleted files and folders, recover files from formatted, corrupted, repartitioned and inaccessible storage media in step-by-step mode. A comprehensive set of tools can rebuild damaged volumes and partitions, and fix corrupted file systems.
- File Recovery Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
+2Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X is a driver which gives you full read and write access to Windows partitions under Mac OS X. When working with media files or documents in Mac, you need access to the high performance of your system regardless if the files are located on the Mac’s HFS+...
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
+1Indexer++ is probably the best open-source desktop files and folders search utility for Windows.
- File Search Utility
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
The MAGIC behind this lightning fast search engine is reading the MFT (like a phonebook) of the disks.
- File Search Utility
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Windows
The fastest way to read and write Windows disks from Mac OS X, which doesn't support writing to NTFS volumes out-of-the box. It builds and extends upon the proven stability of the open source NTFS-3G to deliver a full featured, commercial grade NTFS driver for your Mac.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
Released in December 2021, WinfrGUI is a 100% free Windows file recovery utility with a GUI. Its interface is clear at a glance, and all levels of users can recover deleted or lost Windows files with just a few mouse clicks.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Burp is a network backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save network traffic and to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
NTFS Link is a set of Windows Shell Extensions (i.e. they hook into the Windows Explorer), providing extended functionality for creating and using hard links and junction points on NTFS file systems. As neither hard links nor junctions are available on FAT, it will really only...
- Shell Extension
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer