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

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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
 
CURIOUS ANGEL said:
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
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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
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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
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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 . . .)
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Diskkeeper or Perfect Disk oft reccomended
 
In message said:
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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Try Linux.
 
Another raving looney Linux troll.

Where is bootpart, findpart, R/W NTFS, NTFS utils, GUI disk utils, etc?
 
DL said:
Free utilities supplied by your hd manu are generally good for checking
disks
Acronis or Ghost for disk imaging


Dont bother with cleaning, MS has stated there is no advantage, if you
must
ccleaner is oft reccomended
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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.
 
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
 
Walterius said:
his point was, i think, that you wouldn't need that crap if you switched to
Linux.
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I have seen many people who actually never needed a recovery toolbox harder
than after trying linux.
 
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