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Spot mau power suite3/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Windows Installation, further down the main menu list, despite looking detailed in the opening screen, simply provides instructions for using your Windows media to install the OS, useful only if you've never had any idea how to do this (and even then, barely useful at all). For Win95/98/Me, subutilities include ScanDisk and Registry and Partition Table Recovery, with a further option to transfer data from the nonfunctioning OS to another disk or removable media, or to reinstall Windows. The primary function here for the NT line-Win2K, Win XP, Vista-is the recovery of the NTLDR and NTDETECT executables, without which the system can't boot. Windows Recovery, the next utility in the list on the main menu, provides a tool for Windows 2000/XP/2003 and another for 95/98/Me. Wipe Data gives you a way to wipe a partition off your system so that neither it nor its data is available for use. Disk Clone and Backup offers tools to let you back up your system from one hard drive to another or from a hard drive to an image file, and to back up a partition either to another partition or, again, to an image file-and you can recover your system from either location once you've performed the backup. Rescue Hard Disk isn't really a tool on its own, but rather an instruction to go to the Spotmau site to download a diagnostic and repair utility specific to the brand of your hard drive. ![]() This utility does a good job of recognizing Linux partitions (if you have them), so I can recommend it for PCs set up to dual-boot or multiboot with Linux. You can resize, create, and delete partitions all the options are clear and accessible and worked well on my tests. The partitioning utility, Partition Genius, offers a graphical view of each hard drive and its partitions, along with information about the file system, size, type, and the type of each partition. Hard Disk Tools comes first: Clicking on this selection or moving the cursor down to it (and pressing Enter) yields a submenu with options for a disk-partitioning manager, a hard drive rescue utility, a disk cloner and backup utility, and a data-wiping program. Older users might well experience twinges of nostalgia using PowerSuite 2007: Those who entered PC computing in the Windows era might be a bit bemused by the bare-bones interface. Clicking on most of these categories also brings you to a graphical DOS screen. You can also use your own CD creation software if you prefer, but be sure to specify that you want to work from an ISO image rather than create a standard data CD.īooting from the CD calls up PowerSuite's main menu, a graphical DOS screen that divides the utilities into eight categories. If you choose the latter, you also download a utility that functions specifically (and only) to let you burn ISO files to CD. When you order the suite from Spotmau, you choose either to receive a CD in the mail or to download an ISO image file. The package is so centered around the CD, in fact, that it has no other means of working. The CD menu loads, and you can access the almost all of the various utilities without running Windows itself. As long as you have your PC configured to look for the CD first, all you have to do is put the disc into your CD/DVD drive and boot. Spotmau PowerSuite 2007 recognizes this issue and, as a result, runs directly from a bootable CD. It's for this reason that some utilities, even built-in Microsoft Windows utilities (CHKDSK is one, if you choose to examine your boot disk) function only if you reboot your PC. Utilities can't, therefore, always access resources to make changes to them. As a result, utilities makers have to design and program their software to take into account the resources-files and devices-that the OS needs to run. One of the big challenges facing most operating system utilities is the simple fact that they're designed to run inside the OS. ![]()
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