Drive Manager 4.0

Drive Manager 4.0 is designed as a professional program that can allow you to easily identify drives which are of the same type. As well as displaying the volume label it also displays vendor information so that multiply CD/DVD drives and removable drives such as USB thumb drives can be differentiated by their manufacturers name, version and revision date. Also the serial number can be seen as a unique ID for each drives.

Drive Manager will continually monitors the space available for each of your drive letters. You can also open a drive in explorer by double clicking on it. The Floppy disk drive letters A and B are ignored.

It will automatically refresh every 10 seconds. This save you having to use the "My Computer" in windows and then change to the report view.

The volume label is displayed for all removable drives as well as local drives. This is useful if you have lots of thumb drives or smart media, compact flash etc.

The serial number column is useful for keeping track of which hard disk is which or for logging you customers hard disk serial numbers.

Individual drives can be hidden from Windows explorer. You can do this by right clicking on a drive and selected Hide Drive from the popup menu. The drives will still be visible in Drive Manager so you can make then visible again.

Major Benefits:

1. Using Drive Manager to Identifying Which Drive is Which.
   Drive Manager has been written to help you easily identify drives which are of the same type. As well as displaying the volume label it also displays vendor information so that multiply CD/DVD drives and removable drives such as USB thumb drives can be differentiated by their manufacturers name, version and revision date. Also the serial number can be seen as a unique ID for each drives.
   
2. Drive Manager 4.00 for detailed drive information
   The new filtering tick boxes, which can be seen at the bottom of the screen allow to user to not display certain drive types or "Not mounted" drives.
   
3. In the New Version of Drive Manager
   SMART information for hard disks.
   Disk information and flags.
   CD/DVD information and drive capabilities
   
4. Hard Disk Information
   The Hard Disk Information screen has been complete rewritten in version 4.00 of Drive Manager. It will also be added to in future versions
   
5. Optical Information
   Information about your optical drives such as CD / DVD drives is now displayed in Drive Manager. You can also download optical info as a separate utility file.
   
6. Drive Manager Functionality
   Drive Manager will continually monitors the space available for each of your drive letters. You can also open a drive in explorer by double clicking on it.
   It automatically refreshes every 30 seconds. This save you having to use the "My Computer" in windows and then change to the report view. You can force a refresh at any point by pressing F5.
   
7. Volume Labels
   The volume label is displayed for all removable drives as well as local drives. This is useful if you have lots of thumb drives or smart media, compact flash etc.
   
8. Serial Numbers
   The serial number column is useful for keeping track of which hard disk is which or for logging you customers hard disk serial numbers.
   
9. Hiding drives
   Individual drives can be hidden from Windows explorer. You can do this by right clicking on a drive and selected Hide Drive from the popup menu. The drives will still be visible in Drive Manager so you can make then visible again and are now displayed in blue.
   
10. Subst
    Drive Manager can be used as a Windows version of the DOS "subst" command for creating substitute drive letters for local folders as a way of doing local drive mappings. It also shows you where the subst letters are pointing to in the "Type" column.

Major Features:

1. % Free column.
2. Hard disk serial number
3. CD ROM Doors open + close.
4. Lock / Unlock CD ROM / DVD drives.
5. Not mounted drives listed in grey with disks not inserted.
6. Time and date.
7. Map / Disconnect network drives.
8. Hide / Unhide drives from explorer.
9. See drives which are hidden.
10. Drive properties dialog on right click.
11. Create / Remove a substitute drive letter for a local folder.
12. Hidden drives displayed in blue.
13. Launch Windows Search
14. Drives with less than 5% available are displayed in red.
15. Vendor details: Vendor Name, Product Id, Revision, Vendor Spec