Top 15 Victoria Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Victoria - An experimental program to work with HDD. Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However, compared with the DOS-programs, the utility for Windows provides the following benefits:

- There is no CPU load at idle;
- More user-friendly interface;
- Multi-tasking;

1. MHDD

MHDD MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform......

2. HDDLife

HDDLife Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage capacities and higher access speeds. However, with......

3. WHDD

WHDD HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux.......

4. Hoek's Tools

Hoek's Tools Hoek’s Tools is a vast collection of portable utilities for the management, diagnosis and repairing of computer problems, recover lost or deleted files or cracking passwords. There are literally hundreds of utilities. Hoek’s Tools can be used as a collection of portable repairing and diagnostic utilities which can be run......

5. Ultimate Boot CD

Ultimate Boot CD The last Boot CD you'll ever need.You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.Free yourself......

6. SMARTReporter

SMARTReporter SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the built-in S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drives as well as performing other checks for "I/O errors" or R.A.I.D "degradation". The current status of your......

7. Datum Memory Booster

Datum Memory Booster Before you think “Not another Memory Booster / Optimizer”, Datum Memory Booster is not just another Memory Booster. And yes, I know all software companies claim that they have the solution to never upgrading memory again. First of all, most of these companies are full of it, most of them......

8. PureRa

PureRa PureRa is an Open Source portable file cleanup tool. It can be used to remove files from your computer that many other cleaning programs overlook. The tool can help you retrieve valuable space and will attempt to repair or remove files that tend to reappear. Config.msi, Desktop.ini, Iconcache.db, .sqm-files, and......

9. RunWithParameters

RunWithParameters Tiny tool, which allows passing command-line parameters to any application from the Explorer context-menu. Comes with a database of parameters available in popular software. Remember previously used parameters in a pop-down history.......

10. smartmontools

smartmontools The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.......

11. Ext2Read (Ext2Explore)

Ext2Read (Ext2Explore) Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports Linux LVM2. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images.......

12. Stellar Drive Monitor

Stellar Drive Monitor Stellar Drive Monitor brings in good news for Mac users having OS X 10.4.11 to 10.8, now each of them can closely monitor the internal hard drive activities & corresponding partitions in the most simple fashion. The UI of the tool is crisp which enables soft clicks to analyse temperature......

13. MyDefrag

MyDefrag MyDefrag (previously JkDefrag) is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks,......

14. Kana Reminder

Kana Reminder Kana Reminder is a program which can be used to set a reminder to be triggered at a specified time. It can also be used to run another program at a specified time.Features:Can be set to remind on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or annually basis. Can be set to run......

15. Ghost-It

Ghost-It Adjust the transparency of your active and inactive windows, taskbar, and desktop with this small application, which suffers from a minor performance glitch. Ghost-It places an icon on your system tray, with options to independently configure the transparency levels of your active window and inactive windows. It comes with a......