What's in your "Recovery" Toolbox? (HDD, Registry, Backup/Sync, etc.)

Aug 28, 2005 3 Replies
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I'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm looking for opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:


  1. HARD DISK DRIVE ______including MBR, Bad Sectors, Partitions, Disk Imaging


  1. REGISTRY ______including clean, repair, backup, control/manage ______and (if possible) a novice-friendly GUI that explains every Key's function and color-highlights suspicious entries

  2. BACKUP ______including the entire OS


  1. FILE/DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION ______I'm looking for SPEED primarily. I have a couple of (older) utilities but they routinely crash and burn -or- lock up my system because the load is too great (two of my 4 HDD's are 169 GB . . .)



Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;)



Angel


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UBCD4 is the tool for you. Google for it, download and burn a copy. You can boot it from startup (CD first enabled in BIOS), and your on your way. best wishes..OJ

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The web page for UBCD (and Bart's) seems to say that they only run under XP. If this is incorrect I would love to hear about it, as I also run W2K.

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Antoine, I've had Ultimate Boot CD for awhile now (sorry guys, I guess I should have specified I was looking for -->>WINDOWS utilities, not DOS) and I'm pretty sure it works with Windows 2000 Professional. Make sure you're completely SvcPack/Rollup'd tho. ;)

Angel

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