A variety of hard drive and disk management and protection tools.
Drive-Thru is a simple drive management utility which can enable and disable various features of hard drives.
The user interface of Drive-Thru is pretty basic, featuring a vertical tabbed interface providing access to the main functions of the app. Its features are organized in to Drive Security, Drive Substitution, CD/DVD Tools, Drive Configuration and Other.
All of these tools in Drive-Thru are made available through Microsoft Windows APIs. It can hide and unhide drives, lock access to drives and enable and disable autorun features for connected media.
The CD/DVD section isn't very packed with features and currently only allows you to mount ISO images as drives or burn images to a disc using Windows' own CD burning application.
The drive configuration section of Drive-Thru provides more options including modifying drive information, viewing available space and assign drive letters. Write protection options can also be modified.
Overall, Drive-Thru seems like it's a work-in-progress but does offer quick access to some features of Windows drive management via Windows APIs that otherwise aren't available in the Control Panel.
Of course, using advanced features here should be done with a lot of caution, especially if the user is a novice.
Features of Drive-Thru
- Bad sector scanning: Scan and repair bad sectors on your disks to ensure data integrity.
- Bootable media creation: Create bootable media for system recovery and troubleshooting purposes.
- Data backup and recovery: Safeguard your data with reliable backup and restore functionalities.
- Disk benchmarking: Evaluate the performance of your disks with comprehensive benchmarking tools.
- Disk cloning: Create exact copies of your disks for easy data migration and system duplication.
- Disk defragmentation: Optimize disk performance by defragmenting and reorganizing files on your drives.
- Disk encryption: Encrypt your disks or partitions for enhanced data security and privacy.
- Disk formatting: Format your disks with various file systems to meet your specific needs.
- Disk health monitoring: Monitor the health and performance of your disks to prevent data loss and drive failure.
- Disk partitioning: Partition your hard drives for efficient organization and optimized storage allocation.
- Disk wiping: Securely erase data from your disks to prevent unauthorized recovery.
- File shredding: Permanently delete sensitive files and folders to prevent data recovery.
- File system conversion: Convert between different file systems for improved compatibility and performance.
- Partition resizing: Resize, expand, or shrink disk partitions without data loss or reformatting.
- Virtual disk creation: Create virtual disks to mount and access disk images or virtual machines.
Compatibility and License
Drive-Thru is provided under a freeware license on Windows from drive utilities with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2016.7 is the latest version last time we checked.
Fahmy Corporation accepts donations for the continued development of this free software.
What version of Windows can Drive-Thru run on?
Drive-Thru can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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