DiskTune is a freeware disk defragmenter and optimizer. This release should be considered beta. Although it has been running here for a while now on production machines, it is virtually impossible to test every possible scenario. That being said, DiskTune is 100% safe to use! By declaring DiskTune beta however we want to communicate that the documentation is not yet up to par, and that a few desired options are still missing (an exclude option being one). Also see previous entries on DiskTune here.

A setup is included, the uninstall will remove all traces of DiskTune if desired. It’s safe to try and safe to get rid of.

Why freeware? Although I spent a lot of free time on this project, I was also allowed to spent DIY DataRecovery.nl time on it. The idea is this: Rather than spending hundreds of dollars on Google ads we choose to invest some time in this project that we see as advertising. MBRtool builds up on that same idea. It’s free and hundreds of thousands of users have now heard of DIY DataRecovery.nl in return. So, we want nothing back in return, we just hope that if the need for a data recovery program arises that you will think of us. So, we just hope you will enjoy DiskTune, and if you do, do not hesitate to share it with friends and family.

You can get DiskTune here. You can report bugs, place comments etc. using the comment option of this web log, or feel free to email me at joep@diydatarecovery.nl. We would really appreciate your feedback!

Edit: version 1.0.26 adds a disk temperature monitor that will pause operations if a disk gets too hot. See: http://www.diydatarecovery.bravejournal.com/entry/29544