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Hard drive audit

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I am looking for a piece of software or tool to audit a hard disk in other words I need to find out what went on there.

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You mean you want to perform software inventory?

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The commercial tool for that is Altiris Inventory Solution. Altiris has a central server and performs daily software inventory through an agent installed on each PC.

For normal Windows apps you just look at ‘add remove programs list’ and you get most of them that way.

Microsoft makes a free tool to tell you what Microsoft programs are installed.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/msia.mspx

another one that is free is lansweeper:
http://www.lansweeper.com

Or do you mean forensic investigation?

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There are loads of tools, including free stuff, depending on what you are trying to do.

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Yes I would prefer that term forensic investigation I am looking for a tool to do that.

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Did you get your hard drive issue resolved?

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