Top 15 Disk Utility Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 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

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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

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4. Paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional

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5. Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell

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6. gnome-disk-utility

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7. Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Edition

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8. UFS Explorer Standard Recovery

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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

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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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