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Software Utilities

Here you may find a small collection of useful utilities to keep your storage and file system intact and improve performance...
In most cases you can download the utility or its trial version.

  Hard Drive Diagnostic, Analysis, Recovery, and Performance Improvement
  • Norton Ghost 2000  (Symantec). List Price: $63.
    Norton Ghost 2000 Personal Edition is the software for cloning and imaging your hard drive. Technically savvy home computer users can use it to 
    • Migrate data files, applications, and system settings when replacing an old PC with a new one; 
    • Clone an entire hard drive when upgrading your hardware; 
    • create compressed hard disk backups and restore disk images during disaster recovery.
    • Copy disk images to removable media, then restore entire images or individual files and directories as needed. 
    • Clone directly to another PC via parallel ports or NetBIOS interfaces.

  Drive Installation, Partition & Formatting
  • Partition Commander 6.0  (V Communications, Inc.). List Price: ~$35.
    Partition Commander  allows to partition your hard drive and reclaim wasted disk space, organize files, add new operating systems (OSes), and in many cases speed up drive access. And you don't have to be an expert. Partition Commander  automates the process with our exclusive Partition Wizard TM - guiding you through step-by-step. Where you have a choice, helpful suggestions are made available - the rest is handled automatically.

  Anti-Virus Software
  • Norton Antivirus  (Symantec). List Price: $36 (dowload) - $40 (mail).
    Program ensures that you are protected while surfing the Internet and scans incoming email attachments automatically for the most popular email products, preventing viruses from even entering your system. Email products include:
    • MS Outlook
    • MS Outlook Express
    • Eudora Pro
    • Eudora Lite
    • Netscape Messenger
    • Netscape Mail
    Detects and repairs viruses in compressed files-including those within multiple compressed layers-ensuring that even the most well-hidden virus does not enter your system. Compressed file formats include:
    • MIME/UU
    • LHA/LZH
    • ARJ
    • CAB
    • PKLite
    • LZEXE
    • ZIP

  Tape Drive diagnostic software
  • Courtesy of Seagate Technology, these utilities allow you to
    • Test your Seagate tape drive and confirm that it can accurately read and write data.
    • Make a test tape that can be read by another drive of the same type to confirm data interchange capability.
    • Confirm that hardware data compression is working properly (if available on your drive).
    • Re-tension your Travan or mini-cartridge media.