The program hides A and B drives, since floppies are scarce these days. The main list view displayed a great deal of information about our installed disks, with grayed-out entries for inactive card readers and removable drives as well as the empty DVD-RW drive. Drive Manager's user interface is really quite attractive, with a rounded, shaded Aero look and colorful icons. It can hide and unhide or lock and unlock drives, access tools like Check Disk, create substitute drive letters for files and folders, search drives, show disk speed, eject USB drives, and more.Īs portable freeware, Drive Manager opens as soon as you click its executable file, which can go anywhere, including portable devices like USB drives. Alex Nolan's Drive Manager is a free, portable disk management tool that displays available space and a lot of other information about your hard drives, optical drives, removable drives, and even your card readers. My Computer doesn't offer many options, and the Disk Management Tool isn't meant for simple, everyday tasks.

Windows has never really offered much of a disk utility.

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