Top 15 Disk Utility Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:

the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or, for CD/DVD images, .cdr;
mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images);
enabling or disabling journaling;
verifying a disk's integrity, and repairing it if the disk is damaged (this will work for both Mac compatible format partitions, and FAT32 partitions with Microsoft Windows installed);
verifying and repairing permissions;
disk erasing, formatting, partitioning and cloning;
secure deletion of free space or disk using a "zero out" data, a 7-pass DOD 5220-22 M standard, or a 35-pass Gutmann algorithm
adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Table, GUID Partition Table, and master boot record (MBR);
creating, destroying, merging, and repairing RAID sets;
restoring volumes from Apple Software Restore (ASR) images;
burning disk images to CD or DVD in HFS+ format;
erasing CD-RWs and DVD-RWs;
checking the S.M.A.R.T status of a hard disk. ...

1. Active@ Disk Image

Active@ Disk Image Active@ Disk Image is a 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.......

2. AX64 Time Machine

AX64 Time Machine AX64 Time Machine is a backup and recovery software that enables an easy and fast way to restore your PC to an earlier point of time.Time Machine allows to quickly recover from: disk failures, system crashes, virus infections, unwanted program installations, etc. It securely backs up all your files, and......

3. Macrium Reflect

Macrium Reflect Macrium Reflect is a Disc Imaging Backup Software to make a complete *.mrimg or *.iso copy of your hard drive.Main features :Disk ImagingDisk CloningAccess images in Windows ExplorerSchedule backupsLinux Rescue CDWindows PE Rescue Media (RAID support)Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 compatiblitySupport for GPTIt has a built-in scheduler,......

4. Paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional

Paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional Why be satisfied with less? The Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional includes everything you need for cutting-edge data management and opens up professional system administration options which had never before been possible. Tools such as high-performance file exclusion filters for efficient backup and recovery operations, the sophisticated Paragon partitioning engine,......

5. Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell

Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell ODIN is a utility for easy backup of hard drive volumes or complete hard drives under Windows. A disk image can be created or restored. Only used clusters can be backuped, compression on the fly is possible. It runs under 32-Bit Windows Operating Systems. How many hours did you spend......

6. gnome-disk-utility

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7. Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Edition

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Edition Veeam® Endpoint Backup™ FREE provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based desktops and laptops. With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, you can easily back up your PC to an external hard drive, NAS (network-attached storage) share or a Veeam Backup & Replication™ repository. And if your system crashes, hard drive......

8. UFS Explorer Standard Recovery

UFS Explorer Standard Recovery UFS Explorer Standard Recovery was designed to make even complex data recovery a simple procedure to be easily carried-out by both home users and professionals. The software embraces powerful mechanisms that allow to recover accidentally deleted data and data lost due to logical file system damages after formatting hard disk,......

9. Macrorit Disk Partition Expert

Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Macrorit Disk Partition Expert Free Edition is powerful free partition software allows you to extend partition (especially for system partition), settle low disk space problem, manage disk space easily on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk. This totally free disk management utility is designed for home users which supports......

10. UFS Explorer RAID Recovery

UFS Explorer RAID Recovery UFS Explorer Standard Recovery for RAID (RCI) was designed as an extension to UFS Explorer Standard Recovery software to expand capabilities for reconstruction of complex RAID-systems and recovery of lost and deleted data from these systems. In addition to the set of functions contained in UFS Explorer Standard Recovery this......

11. DropDMG

DropDMG DropDMG is the easiest way to create Mac OS X disk images, as well as cross-platform archives. Just drag and drop a folder or file and you're done. Or, you can drag an existing disk image or archive onto DropDMG to convert it to any of the other supported formats......

12. R-Drive Image

R-Drive Image R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS and therefore......

13. UFS Explorer Professional Recovery

UFS Explorer Professional Recovery UFS Explorer Professional Recovery is a full-featured software application designed exclusively for data recovery specialists. The application successfully combines low-level data analysis and data management functions with high-level data recovery tools. UFS Explorer Professional Recovery is the only software of the UFS Explorer group that allows to alter original information......

14. Diskpart

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15. Clonezilla

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