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

[Curious Angel]

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

2. 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

3. BACKUP
______including the entire OS

4. 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

[DL]

"CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message
news:1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... 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

Free utilities supplied by your hd manu are generally good for checking
disks
Acronis or Ghost for disk imaging
2. 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

Dont bother with cleaning, MS has stated there is no advantage, if you must
ccleaner is oft reccomended
For reg backup Erunt
There isnt such a thing as a novice friendly GUI for keys - dont mess if you
dont 'positively understand'
3. BACKUP ______including the entire OS

To many to choose from, also see Disk Imaging
4. 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 . . .)

Diskkeeper or Perfect Disk oft reccomended

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

[Jeremy Boden]

In message <1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
CURIOUS ANGEL <byte.this@usa.net> writesI'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm lookingfor opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:1. HARD DISK DRIVE______including MBR, Bad Sectors, Partitions, Disk Imaging2. REGISTRY______including clean, repair, backup, control/manage______and (if possible) a novice-friendly GUI that explains every Key'sfunction and color-highlights suspicious entries3. BACKUP______including the entire OS4. 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 systembecause 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

Try Linux.

--
Jeremy Boden

[Eric Gisin]

Another raving looney Linux troll.

Where is bootpart, findpart, R/W NTFS, NTFS utils, GUI disk utils, etc?

"Jeremy Boden" <jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:FqWbgiBmMiEDFw0S@jboden.demon.co.uk... In message <1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, CURIOUS ANGEL <byte.this@usa.net> writesI'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm lookingfor opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:1. HARD DISK DRIVE2. REGISTRY3. BACKUP4. FILE/DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION Try Linux. -- Jeremy Boden

[fj]

"DL" <dl@spoofmail> wrote in message
news:eRGOt4ArFHA.3060@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... "CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message news:1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... 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 Free utilities supplied by your hd manu are generally good for checking disks Acronis or Ghost for disk imaging 2. 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 Dont bother with cleaning, MS has stated there is no advantage, if you must ccleaner is oft reccomended
In my experience ALL registry cleaners are dangerous. They have all
identified registry keys for deleting that are essential parts of installed
applications. And, of course, the way you find out is when the program
doesn't work/has a problem.
I've simply come to the conclusion that, if I'm going to be constantly
tweaking my setup, I'd better accept that I need to do a clean install 1-2
times a year. For reg backup Erunt There isnt such a thing as a novice friendly GUI for keys - dont mess if you dont 'positively understand' 3. BACKUP ______including the entire OS To many to choose from, also see Disk Imaging 4. 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 . . .) Diskkeeper or Perfect Disk oft reccomended Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;) Angel

[Guest]

Partition Table Doctor 3.0 -- partition recovery tool.
Partition Table Doctor is the only real partition recovery software
used to recover partition for hard disk when you experience a drive
error
(other than hardware failure) this versatile tool automatically
checks and repairs the Master Boot Record, partition table, and
the boot sector of the partition with an error, to recover the
FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP partitions on
IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives. It can create an emergency
floppy disk or a bootable CD for partition recovery even if your
operating system fails to boot. Partition Table Doctor manager
for MS-DOS, Freedos, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

http://www.ptdd.com
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm

fj wrote: "DL" <dl@spoofmail> wrote in message news:eRGOt4ArFHA.3060@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... "CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message news:1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... 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 Free utilities supplied by your hd manu are generally good for checking disks Acronis or Ghost for disk imaging 2. 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 Dont bother with cleaning, MS has stated there is no advantage, if you must ccleaner is oft reccomended In my experience ALL registry cleaners are dangerous. They have all identified registry keys for deleting that are essential parts of installed applications. And, of course, the way you find out is when the program doesn't work/has a problem. I've simply come to the conclusion that, if I'm going to be constantly tweaking my setup, I'd better accept that I need to do a clean install 1-2 times a year. For reg backup Erunt There isnt such a thing as a novice friendly GUI for keys - dont mess if you dont 'positively understand' 3. BACKUP ______including the entire OS To many to choose from, also see Disk Imaging 4. 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 . . .) Diskkeeper or Perfect Disk oft reccomended Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;) Angel

[Folkert Rienstra]

<wemaole@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1125280465.883666.296770@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com Partition Table Doctor 3.0 -- partition recovery tool. Partition Table Doctor
* is the only real partition recovery software *

Oh look, *it* has even gone into full blown troll mode now.
used to recover partition for hard disk when you experience a drive error (other than hardware failure) this versatile tool automatically checks and repairs the Master Boot Record, partition table, and the boot sector of the partition with an error, to recover the FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP partitions on IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives. It can create an emergency floppy disk or a bootable CD for partition recovery even if your operating system fails to boot. Partition Table Doctor manager for MS-DOS, Freedos, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003. http://www.ptdd.com http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm fj wrote: "DL" <dl@spoofmail> wrote in message news:eRGOt4ArFHA.3060@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... "CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message news:1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > 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 Free utilities supplied by your hd manu are generally good for checking disks Acronis or Ghost for disk imaging > 2. 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 Dont bother with cleaning, MS has stated there is no advantage, if you must ccleaner is oft reccomended In my experience ALL registry cleaners are dangerous. They have all identified registry keys for deleting that are essential parts of installed applications. And, of course, the way you find out is when the program doesn't work/has a problem. I've simply come to the conclusion that, if I'm going to be constantly tweaking my setup, I'd better accept that I need to do a clean install 1-2 times a year. For reg backup Erunt There isnt such a thing as a novice friendly GUI for keys - dont mess if you dont 'positively understand' > 3. BACKUP > ______including the entire OS To many to choose from, also see Disk Imaging > > 4. 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 . . .) Diskkeeper or Perfect Disk oft reccomended > Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;) > > Angel

[Walterius]

his point was, i think, that you wouldn't need that crap if you switched to
Linux.

--
Walterius

"Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:detbl401487@enews3.newsguy.com... Another raving looney Linux troll. Where is bootpart, findpart, R/W NTFS, NTFS utils, GUI disk utils, etc? "Jeremy Boden" <jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:FqWbgiBmMiEDFw0S@jboden.demon.co.uk... In message <1125257266.886501.190250@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, CURIOUS ANGEL <byte.this@usa.net> writesI'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm lookingfor opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:1. HARD DISK DRIVE2. REGISTRY3. BACKUP4. FILE/DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION Try Linux. -- Jeremy Boden

[Joep]

"Walterius" <nohow@noway.not> wrote in message
news:uytKoPNrFHA.3016@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... his point was, i think, that you wouldn't need that crap if you switched
to Linux.

I have seen many people who actually never needed a recovery toolbox harder
than after trying linux.

--
Joep