Do you have several hard disks in your computer? Do you have the experience that a partition of your hard disk remains little free space? Ever wanted to know where all the used space on your hard disk was hiding? Do you want to know which folder or file occupied your valuable space? Is time to find a handy and easy to use hard disk space manager? Here I commend you a great hard disk space manager which I have used for a long time. That is Drive Manager which was published by Alex Nolan. Do you have the same requirement as me? Drive Manager is an ideal solution for you. If you have lots of drive letters of different types of drives, such as mapped network drives, thumb drive (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash, CD-ROM and DVD then this utility is perfect to help you manage them. Give Drive Manager a try and you will like it soon. Below is the detailed introduction of this helpful and powerful utility.

Drive Manager is a small and useful tool that makes it easy to retrieve drive information for all our drives at a glance. It runs as a standalone EXE file and displays Label, Type, Size, Used, Available, Format, Serial number and Percentage free for each local and removable drive. The information is refreshed every 20 seconds - double-clicking opens the drive in Windows Explorer. Drive Manager also allows us to create a substitute drive letter for a local folder, and to hide drives from Windows Explorer. Following are the key features and functions of this powerful and handy drive monitor, including:

We can use Drive Manager to identifying which drive is which - Drive Manager has been written to help us 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 our drive letters. We can also open a drive in explorer by double clicking on it.

Drive Manager automatically refreshes every 30 seconds. This save us having to use the "My Computer" in windows and then change to the report view. We can force a refresh at any point by pressing F5.

Individual drives can be hidden from Windows explorer. We 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 we can make then visible again and are now displayed in blue.

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 us where the subst letters are pointing to in the "Type" column.

Additional features include: CD ROM Doors open + close. Lock / Unlock CD ROM / DVD drives. Not mounted drives listed in grey with disks not inserted. Map / Disconnect network drives. Hide / Unhide drives from explorer. See drives which are hidden. Drive properties dialog on right click. Create / Remove a substitute drive letter for a local folder. Hidden drives displayed in blue. Launch Windows Search. Drives with less than 5% available are displayed in red and much more.

In addition, Drive Manager is free for us and it does not contain any adware or spyware. It is standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. It works with most recent variants of Windows and its current version is 3.31.

In a word, Drive Manager has a friendly and easy-to-use interface, so we can monitor disk space by simply few clicks. This is a very nice, easy to use and full-functions disk monitor. Not only can beginners use it simply but also experienced users can also use it for advanced application. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability and free trial - why are you still reading? Download the free trial now and experience what powerful and effective it is at once!

Drive Manager is a small and useful tool that makes it easy to retrieve drive information for all your drives at a glance. It runs as a standalone EXE file and displays Label, Type, Size, Used, Available, Format, Serial number and Percentage free for each local and removable drive. The information is refreshed every 20 seconds - double-clicking opens the drive in Windows Explorer. Drive Manager also allows you to create a substitute drive letter for a local folder, and to hide drives from Windows Explorer.

Drive Manager can be placed on your desktop to be used as an alternative to the "My-Computer" shortcut. It can also be used to hide drives from explorer. Double clicking on a drive will open it in explorer. The current version can create substitute drive letters for local folders.

Drive Manager continually monitors the space available of or your drive letters and displays detail information about each drive as well as providing easy access to lots of drive related tools and functions.
It can also be used to hide drives from explorer. Double clicking on a drive will open it in explorer. Drive Manager can create substitute drive letters for local folders.

The purpose of this utility is to detect the optical drive's (CD / DVD drives) Read/Write abilities. When looking at the front of a computer which is not your own it is often difficult to tell whether the optical drive installed is either a CD ROM, CD Writer, CD Rewriter, DVD ROM, CD Rewriter + DVD Combo, DVD/CD Rewriter etc.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this disk management software.