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

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"CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message
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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
>
> 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
>
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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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:55:06 GMT, old jon wrote:

> "CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message
> news:1125257118.284987.280260@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... 
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> UBCD4 is the tool for you. Google for it, download and burn a copy. You ca
n
> boot it from startup (CD first enabled in BIOS), and your on your way.
> best wishes..OJ

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 Dese wrote:
> 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.

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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