[How to] Analyze/Clean Hard Disk Space with Free Disk Analyzers JDiskReport and FilePro
Friends, it is a reality that secondary storage space is not a major concern now a days. The days are over when we use to pay too much for a ok sort of hard disk in terms of capacity. And because of the high cost, one had to take care of every bit of space.
The era has changed. Now, almost every laptop come with at least 160GB hard disk which is quite enough for our requirement. But, it doesn’t mean that we don’t have to take care of the usage of our hard disk. At times, we may encounter a situation wherein we have to delete unnecessary files,which are taking a lot of space, from the system . For this, first we need to analyse that which are the culprit files that are eating up space. Obviously, we cannot do it manually. So what to do?
Well, there are two tools which can help you analyse the distribution of the space on your hard disk. The names are JDiskReport and FilePro. And believe me guys, these tools serves the purpose very well. The best part is, both the tools are absolutely Free!
JDiskReport
Below is a screen shot of JDiskReport
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge binary multi-platform software that never expires.
Supported operating systems
I tested JDiskReport on Windows XP and Windows Vista. It worked fine.
Prerequisite
JDiskReport require Java 5 or later, Java 6 is recommended.
Features
The feature which I personally liked is that JDiskReport show the list of 100 largest files, least recently modified files, and most recently files. This is a good place to find large and obsolete files. Apart from this there are many other features as well.
- Size Perspective : The size perspective shows you how much space the files and folders consume on your disk drives. The size pie chart is probably the best to find monster files and folders. You can switch to the table view and toggle the display of files to get more detailed information about a folder.
- Size distribution : The size distribution views help you to learn more about the different file sizes that exists on your hard disks. Look at these views to check whether the size distribution is what you expected it to be.
FilePro
Saleen FilePro is a powerful disk and file management utility that offers multiple features and tool which makes the task of analysis quite easy.
Below is a screen shot:
Supported operating systems
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Features
- Generate disk tree maps for local or network volumes.
- Search and locate files in tree maps by automatic zoom-in and positioning.
- Save entire or partial volume snapshots.
- Compare snapshot against current disk state or past snapshot
- Copy/Move/Rename/Delete files or directories.
- Tool: Compare files and/or directories
- Tool: Find duplicate files
- Batch renaming of files
Download
Click JDiskReport and FilePro to visit the respective official pages.
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