ExtDriveMgmt

A small tool to browse the content of external hard drives when they are not attached to your PC.

Instructions

Open a command line, go to your hard drive and enter

dir /s >dir_Drive1.txt

(Alternatively, use the provided "dir.bat" from the root of your hard drive)

Copy all .txt files to this folder and execute the tool.

Functionality

• Show general information about all drives
• Browse content of each drive in an Explorer-like way
• Browse content in a combined view
• Shows for each file/folder on which drive(s) they are
• Search for files/folders

Screenshots

Show general information about all drives

Browse content of each drive, or combined, in an Explorer-like way

Search for files/folders

Limitations and TODOs

• Only german is supported in parsing the output of "dir". This can be adapted in src/mgmt/DirParser.java
• Codepage not adapted; this can cause some characters to be wrong