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Antivirus Tools

  • ComboFix (2606): Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware (Windows Freeware).
  • CWShredder 2.19: Popular CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover tool (Windows Freeware).
  • Dr.Web CureIt! Antivirus (2606): A free standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner (Windows Freeware).
  • GMER 1.0.15: Hidden services, hidden registry, hidden file scanner, Rootkit Detector and Remover (Windows Freeware).
  • Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.46 (2606): Anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware. (Windows Freeware).
  • RootkitRevealer 1.7.1: Rootkit Revealer is an advanced patent-pending root kit detection utility. (Windows Freeware).
  • SmitFraudFix 2.424: This removes Some of the popular Desktop Hijack malware (Windows Freeware).
  • Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (2606): Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software. (Windows Freeware).
  • SpywareBlaster 4.3 (2606): Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software. (Windows Freeware).
  • SuperAntispyware 4.39.1002 (2606): Remove Malware, Rootkits, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Parasites (a must have tool) (Windows Freeware).

Archivers

  • 7-Zip 9.15b: File archiver with a high compression ratio Supports 7z, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZ, GZIP, HFS, IMA, IMG, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, TAR, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, ZIP and Z formats (Windows Freeware).
  • EasyUHA 1.0: GUI Tool to create and extract UHA Archives (Windows Freeware).
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Backup Tools

  • Acronis True Image 8.1.945: Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning. (Dos Commercial).
  • COPYR.DMA Build013: A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors (Dos Freeware).
  • Double Driver 3.0: Driver Backup and Restore tool (Windows Freeware).
  • Drive SnapShot 1.40: Creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running. (Windows Shareware).
  • DriveImageXML 2.14: Backup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use (Windows Freeware).
  • DriverBackup! 1.0.3: Another handy tool to backup drivers (Windows Freeware).
  • FastCopy 2.01: The Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows (Windows Freeware).
  • G4L Ghost 4 Linux 0.33a: A hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost (Linux Freeware).
  • GImageX 2.0.17: ImageX is used to backup/restore WIM images for Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7 (Windows Freeware).
  • InfraRecorder 0.50: An Open source CD/DVD burning software, also create/burn .iso images (Windows Freeware).
  • Norton Ghost 11.5.1: A hard drive disk imaging utility for Windows which supports Network/USB/SCSI (Windows/Dos Commercial).
  • Partition Image: PartImage 0.6.9: Supported filesystem includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, HFS, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS. (Linux Freeware).
  • Partition Saving 3.80: A tool to backup/restore partitions. (SavePart.exe) (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • RegBak 1.0: A light-weight and simple utility to create backups of Windows registry files (Windows Freeware).
  • SelfImage 1.2.1.92: To create image files of any mounted or unmounted hard disk partition. (Windows Freeware).
  • Smart Driver Backup 2.12: Easy backup of your Windows device drivers (also works from PE) (Windows Freeware).
  • WhitSoft File Splitter 4.5a: A Small File Split-Join Tool (Windows Freeware).

BIOS / CMOS Tools

  • !BIOS 3.20: A powerfull utility for bios and cmos (Dos Freeware).
  • Award DMI Configuration Utility 2.43: DMI Configuration utility for modifying/viewing the MIDF contents. (Dos Freeware).
  • BIOS Cracker 5.0: BIOS password remover (cmospwd) (Dos Freeware).
  • BIOS Utility 1.35.0: BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more. (Dos Freeware).
  • CMOS 0.93: CMOS Save / Restore Tool (Dos Freeware).
  • DISKMAN4: A powerful all in one utility (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • Kill CMOS: A tiny utility to wipe cmos (Dos Freeware).
  • UniFlash 1.40: Bios flash utility (Dos Freeware).

Browsers / File Managers

  • 7-Zip File Manager: 7-Zip is a popular open source file archiver designed for Microsoft Windows (Windows Freeware).
  • Dos Command Center 5.1: Classic dos-based file manager. (Dos Freeware).
  • Dos Navigator 6.4.0: Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features. (Dos Freeware).
  • Explore2fs 1.08b: GUI explorer tool for accessing linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems under windows (Windows Freeware).
  • FastLynx 2.0: Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability (Dos Freeware).
  • File Maven 3.5: An advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file transfers via serial or parallel cable (Dos Freeware).
  • File Wizard 1.35: A file manager – Colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc. (Dos Freeware).
  • Mini Windows 98: Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support, 7-Zip, Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor, Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc… (Windows Commercial).
  • Mini Windows Xp: Portable Windows Xp that runs from CD/USB/Ram Drive, with Network and SATA support (Windows Commercial).
  • Opera Web Browser 9.27: One of the fastest, smallest and smartest full-featured web browser (Windows Freeware).
  • Total Commander 7.55: A file manager similar to the Windows Explorer features side-by-side file-browsing panes, built-in FTP, archive management, file search/compare/synchronize and more. (Windows Shareware).
  • Volkov Commander 4.99: Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support (Similar to Norton Commander) (Dos Freeware).

Cleaners

  • CCleaner 2.33.1184: Crap Cleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool (Windows Freeware).
  • CleanUp! 4.5.2: Removes junk files from all user profiles that accumulate over time and litter your hard drive (Windows Freeware).
  • Data Shredder 1.0: A tool to Erase disk and files (also wipe free space) securely (Windows Freeware).
  • Delete Doctor 2.2: Delete Files that are hard to delete, Option to delete on reboot or via UNC Name (Windows Freeware).
  • MyUninstaller 1.65: Alternative to the standard add / remove control panel module (Windows Freeware).
  • SpaceMonger 1.4: Keeping track of the free space on your computer (Windows Freeware).
  • WinDirStat 1.1.2.80: A disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. (Windows Freeware).

Editors / Viewers

  • HxD 1.7.7.0: Hex Editor provides tools to inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images (Windows Freeware).
  • IrfanView 4.27: A free Image Viewer/Editor/Converter and Optimizer (Windows Freeware).
  • SumatraPDF 1.1: A free, open source, lightweight PDF Reader for Microsoft Windows (Windows Freeware).

FileSystems Tools

  • AlternateStreamView 1.12: View/Copy/Delete hidden NTFS Alternate Data Streams (Windows Freeware).
  • EditBINI 1.01: To Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition (Dos Freeware).
  • FileDisk Mount Tool 25: To mount ISO/BIN/NRG/MDF/IMA images on windows. (Windows Freeware).
  • NewSID 4.10: Utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP (Windows Freeware).
  • NTFS Access 2.1: Set NTFS permissions recursively and full access rights to a folder/file owner (Windows Freeware).
  • NTFS Dos 3.02: To access ntfs partitions from Dos (Dos Freeware).
  • NTFS Dos Pro 5.0: To access ntfs partitions from Dos (Dos Commercial).
  • NTFS4Dos 1.9: To access ntfs partitions from Dos (Dos Freeware).
  • Paragon Mount Everything 3.0: To access NTFS, Ext2FS, Ext3FS partitions from dos (Dos Commercial).
  • Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1: Enables you to create and mount a virtual floppy drive on your NT/2000/XP/Vista (Windows Freeware).

Hard Disk Tools

  • Active Kill Disk 4.1.2393: Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive. (Dos Freeware).
  • Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) 1.0.7: Completely deletes the contents of any hard disk it can detect (Linux Freeware).
  • ExcelStor’s ESTest 4.50: ExcelStor hard disk diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware).
  • Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 7.00: To check IDE drives for possible defects/problems (Dos Freeware).
  • Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0: Low Level Format Tool (Dos Freeware).
  • Gateway GwScan 5.12: Gateway hard drive diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware).
  • Hard Disk Sentinel 1.00.5: Hard Disk health, performance and temperature monitoring tool. (Dos Freeware).
  • HDAT2 4.53: Main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices (Dos Freeware).
  • HDD Erase 4.0: Secure erase using a special feature built into most newer hard drives (Dos Freeware).
  • HDD Regenerator 1.71: to recover a bad hard drive (Dos Commercial).
  • IBM Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.16: Quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives (Dos Freeware).
  • IBM Hitachi Feature Tool 2.15: Allows you to control some of the features of the the HDD (Dos Freeware).
  • Maxtor amset utility 4.0: Utility for changing Acoustic Management on the hard drives (Dos Freeware).
  • Maxtor Low Level Formatter 1.1: Maxtor’s Low Level Format Utility works on any harddrive (Dos Freeware).
  • Maxtor PowerMax 4.23: Designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives (Dos Freeware).
  • MHDD 4.6: Precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, perform Low-level format, Bad Sector Sepair, access raw sectors, manage S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) and other drive parameters such as acoustic management, security, Host Protected Area, etc. (Dos Freeware).
  • Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28: To diagnose the disk when suspected to have failures (Dos Freeware).
  • Samsung ESTOOL 3.00g: Drive Diagnostic, Automatic Acoustic Management, Enable/Disable SMART etc (Dos Freeware).
  • Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.10: The Drive Diagnostic Utility (Dos Freeware).
  • SeaTools for Dos: GUI 2.20 Text 1.10 versions to test Seagate or Maxtor Parallel ATA (PATA and IDE) and Serial ATA (SATA) interface disc drives (Dos Freeware).
  • SmartUDM 2.00: Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer. (Dos Freeware).
  • Toshiba Hard Disk Diagnostic 2.00b: Toshiba hard drive diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware).
  • Victoria 3.33e and 3.52rus: A freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics (Dos Freeware).
  • ViVard 1.0: HDD low-level diagnostics, Surface test with remap, SMART-attributes etc. (Dos Freeware).
  • WDClear 1.30: Restore/Erases the drive back to a factory condition (Dos Freeware).
  • Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2: For the installation of Western Digital EIDE Hard Drives (Dos Freeware).
  • Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04f: To quickly and efficiently verify the status of the drive (Dos Freeware).

MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools

  • Boot Partition 2.60: Add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader (Dos Freeware).
  • BootFix Utility: Run this utility if you get ‘Invalid system disk’ (Dos Freeware).
  • BootICE 0.78: A boot sector manipulation utility (Windows Freeware).
  • BootSect 6.0.6: Boot Sector Manipulation Tool, This tool replaces FixFAT.exe and FixNTFS.exe (Windows Freeware).
  • DiskMan 4.2: All in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • Grub4Dos installer 1.1: An universal boot loader GRUB for DOS installer (Windows Freeware).
  • HDHacker 1.4: Load/Save/View MBR and BootSector from a physical/logical drive (Windows Freeware).
  • MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1: BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR (Dos Freeware).
  • MBR Utility 1.05: To manipulate a drive’s master boot record (MBR) via the command line (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • MbrFix 1.3: To backup, restore, fix the boot code in the MBR (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • MBRTool 2.3.200: Backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write… (Dos Freeware).
  • MBRWizard 3.0.48: Directly update and modify the MBR (Master Boot Record) (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • MBRWork 1.08: A utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions (Dos Freeware).
  • Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1: A multi boot manager (Dos Freeware).

MultiMedia Tools

  • MpxPlay 1.56: A small Music Player for dos (Dos Freeware).
  • Picture Viewer 1.94: Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes. (Dos Freeware).
  • QuickView Pro 2.58: Movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx. (Dos Freeware).

Ms Dos Tools

  • 1394 Firewire Support: 1394 Firewire Drivers for Dos (Dos Freeware).
  • ASUSTeK USB Driver 3: ASUS USB CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.00 (Dos Freeware).
  • Collection of dos utilities: extract.exe, pkzip.exe, pkunzip.exe, lha.exe, gzip.exe, uharcd.exe, imgExtrc.exe, xcopy.exe, diskcopy.com, mouse.com, undelete.com, edit.com, fdisk.exe, fdisk2.exe, fdisk3.exe, lf.exe, delpart.exe, wipe.com, zap.com, format.com, deltree.exe, more.com, find.exe, hex.exe, debug.exe, split.exe, mem.exe, attrib.com, sys.com, smartdrv.exe, xmsdsk.exe, killer.exe, share.exe, scandisk.exe, scanreg.exe, guest.exe, doskey.exe, duse.exe, move.exe, setver.exe, intersvr.exe, interlnk.exe, loadlin.exe, lfndos.exe, doslfn.com (Dos Commercial).
  • Interlnk support at COM1/LPT1: To access another computer from COM/LPT port (Dos Freeware).
  • SATA Support: SATA Driver (gcdrom.sys) and JMicron JMB361 (xcdrom.sys) for Dos (Dos Freeware).
  • SCSI Support: SCSI Drivers for Dos (Dos Freeware).
  • Universal USB Driver 2: Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage (Dos Freeware).
  • USB CD-Rom Driver 1: Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive (Dos Freeware).

Network Tools

  • Angry IP Scanner 2.21: Scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports (Windows Freeware).
  • CurrPorts 1.81: Displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer (Windows Freeware).
  • Network Password Recovery 1.24: Recover Windows XP/Vista network passwords (Credentials file) (Windows Freeware).
  • TCPView 2.54: Lists TCP and UDP endpoints, including the Local/Remote addresses of TCP connections (Windows Freeware).
  • Winsock 2 Fix for 9x: To fix corrupted Winsock2 information by poorly written Internet programs (Windows Freeware).
  • XP TCP/IP Repair 1.0: Repair your Windows XP Winsock and TCP/IP registry errors (Windows Freeware).

Optimizers

  • Defraggler 1.20.201: To defrag your entire hard drive or individual files (Windows Freeware).
  • JkDefrag 3.36: Free disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (Windows Freeware).
  • NT Registry Optimizer 1.1j: Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista (Windows Freeware).
  • PageDfrg 2.32: System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP (Windows Freeware).

Other Tools

  • Bulk Rename Utility 2.7.1.2: Rename multiple files, change timestamps and rename using EXIF data with the click of a button. (Windows Freeware).
  • Fix NTLDR is missing: Fix “NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart” for Windows Xp (Dos Freeware).
  • Mini Linux: Recovery is Possible Linux (RIPLinux 9.8) contains aria2, cdrtools, curl, ddrescue, dump/restore, emelfm2, epdfview, extundelete, fsarchiver, grub2, hdparm, isomaster, lftp, lynx, lzip, mtpaint, ntfs-3g, openssh, partclone, partimage, pccmoscleaner, pcdiskeraser, pcloginnow, pcregedit, pidgin, qemu, reiserfsck, safecopy, smbclient, xfburn, xterm and more (Linux Freeware).
  • SearchMyFiles 1.47: Alternative to ‘Search For Files And Folders’ module of Windows + Duplicates Search (Windows Freeware).
  • Universal TCP/IP Network 6.5: MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based network, it contains 98 different network card drivers (Dos Freeware).

Partition Tools

  • Acronis Disk Director 10.0.2160: Popular disk management functions in a single suite (Dos Commercial).
  • eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3: XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition (Dos Freeware).
  • Fat32 Formatter GUI 1.01: Windows XP cannot format a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32 (Windows Freeware).
  • GParted Partition Editor 0.6.0b2: To create, copy, paste, delete, hide, resize or move partitions without losing data (Linux Freeware).
  • Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1274: Universal tool for partitions (Dos Commercial).
  • Partition Table Editor 8.0: Partition Table and Boot Record Editor (Dos Freeware).
  • Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.0: Free Partition Magic Alternative, Partition Resize/Move/Copy/Create/Delete/Format/Convert, Explore, etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • Ranish Partition Manager 2.44: A boot manager and hard disk partitioner. (Dos Freeware).
  • Smart Fdisk 2.05: A simple harddisk partition manager (Dos Freeware).
  • SPecial Fdisk 2000.03v: SPFDISK a partition tool. (Dos Freeware).
  • Super Fdisk 1.0: Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data. (Dos Freeware).
  • The Partition Resizer 1.3.4: Move and resize your partitions in one step and more. (Dos Freeware).
  • USB Format Tool: Format/make bootable any USB flash drive to FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition. (Windows Freeware).

Password Tools

  • Active Password Changer 3.0.420: To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista (FAT/NTFS) (Dos Commercial).
  • Asterisk Logger 1.04: Reveal passwords hidden behind asterisk characters. (Windows Freeware).
  • ATAPWD 1.2: Hard Disk Password Utility (Dos Freeware).
  • Content Advisor Password Remover 1.01: It Removes Content Advisor Password from Internet Explorer (Windows Freeware).
  • Kon-Boot 1.1: To bypass Login Password of Windows (32bit, any password) and Linux (kon-usr) (Linux Freeware).
  • LicenseCrawler 0.0.42: Find the license keys and serial numbers of your programs (Windows Freeware).
  • Mail PassView 1.55: Recovers mail passwords of Outlook Express, MS Outlook, IncrediMail, Eudora, etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • MessenPass 1.30: A password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of several instant messangers (Windows Freeware).
  • NTPWD: Utility to reset windows NT/2000/XP administrator/user password. (Dos Freeware).
  • Offline NT Password Changer 2008-08-02: Utility to reset/unlock windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 administrator/user password. (Linux Freeware).
  • Password Renew 1.1: Utility to (re)set windows passwords (Windows Freeware).
  • ProduKey 1.41: Recovers lost the product key of your Windows/Office (Windows Freeware).
  • PST (Outlook) Password Recovery 1.12: Small utility that recovers lost password of Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) file (Windows Freeware).
  • WindowsGate 1.1: Enables/Disables Windows logon password validation (Windows Freeware).
  • WinKeyFinder 1.73: Allows you to View and Change Windows XP/2003 Product Keys, backup and restore activation related files, backup Microsoft Office 97, 2000 SP2, XP/2003 keys etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • WirelessKeyView 1.34: Recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by WZC (Windows Freeware).
  • XP Key Reader 2.7: Can decode the XP-key on Local or Remote systems (Windows Freeware).

Process Tools

  • Dependency Walker 2.2: Checks for missing/invalid DLL/modules/functions for any exe/dll/ocx/sys. (Windows Freeware).
  • IB Process Manager 1.04: A little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • OpenedFilesView 1.46: View opened/locked files in your system, sharing violation issues (Windows Freeware).
  • Pocket KillBox 2.0.0.978: Can be used to get rid of files that stubbornly refuse to allow you to delete them (Windows Freeware).
  • Process Explorer 12.04: Shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded (Windows Freeware).
  • Process Monitor 2.91: To monitor real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity, This tool replaces Filemon and Regmon (Windows Freeware).
  • ProcessActivityView 1.11: Detailed process access information read/write/opened files etc (Windows Freeware).
  • Unlocker 1.8.9: This tool can delete file/folder when you get this message: Cannot delete file: Access is denied, The file is in use by another program etc. (Windows Freeware).

RAM (Memory) Testing Tools

  • MemTest 1.0: a Memory Testing Tool (Windows Freeware).
  • Memtest86+ 4.10: PC Memory Test (Linux Freeware).
  • Video Memory Stress Test 1.7.116: A tool to thoroughly test your video RAM for errors and faults (Windows Freeware).
  • Windows Memory Diagnostic: A RAM Test tool (Windows Freeware).

Recovery Tools

  • Active Partition Recovery 3.0: To Recover a Deleted partition. (Dos Commercial).
  • Active Undelete 5.5: A tool to recover deleted files (Windows Commercial).
  • DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100: An excellent data recovery software. (Dos Commercial).
  • GetDataBack for FAT/NTFS 4.0: Data recovery software for FAT/NTFS file systems (Windows Commercial).
  • Partition Find and Mount 2.31: Partition Find and Mount software is designed to find lost or deleted partitions (Windows Freeware).
  • PartitionRecovery 1.0: A freeware tool to recover accidentally deleted partitions (Windows Freeware).
  • PhotoRec 6.12b: Tool to Recover File and pictures from Dos/Windows/Linux (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64: Another excellent data recovery software with many other options. (Dos Commercial).
  • Recuva 1.37.488: Restore deleted files from Hard Drive, Digital Camera Memory Card, usb mp3 player… (Windows Freeware).
  • Restoration 3.2.13: A tool to recover deleted files (Windows Freeware).
  • Smart Partition Recovery 3.3: Find Lost NTFS partitions and restore them back. (Windows Freeware).
  • SoftPerfect File Recovery 1.2: To restore accidentally deleted files from hard drive, USB flash drives, CF and SD memory cards (Windows Freeware).
  • TestDisk 6.12b: Tool to check and undelete partition from Dos/Windows/Linux (Windows/Dos Freeware).
  • Unstoppable Copier 4.4: Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. (Windows Freeware).

Registry Tools

  • ERUNT 1.1j: The Emergency Recovery Utility NT Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP (Windows Freeware).
  • Fix HDC: Fix the Hard Drive Controller when replacing your motherboard on an XP system (Windows Freeware).
  • Glary Registry Repair 3.3.0.852: An advanced registry cleaner that allows you to safely scan, clean, and repair registry problems (Windows Freeware).
  • RegFromApp 1.21: Monitors/exports the Registry changes made by the selected application. (Windows Freeware).
  • Registry Editor PE 0.9c: Easy editing of remote registry hives and user profiles (Windows Freeware).
  • Registry Restore Wizard 1.0.4: Restores a corrupted system registry from Xp System Restore (Windows Freeware).
  • Registry Viewer 4.2: Registry Viewer/Editor for Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP (Dos Freeware).
  • RegScanner 1.82: Tool to find/search in the Registry of Windows (Windows Freeware).
  • RegShot 1.8.2: A registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one: done after doing system changes or installing a new software product (Windows Freeware).

Remote Control Tools

  • TeamViewer 1.85: Access any remote computer via Internet just like sitting in front of it, even through firewalls. (Windows Freeware).
  • TightVNC 1.3.10: Cross-platform Remote Desktop Software to view/control remote pc with mouse and keyboard (Windows Freeware).

Security Tools

  • DiskCryptor 0.9: High speed disk encryption tool to encrypt all disk/partitions, including the system partition encryption support (Windows Freeware).
  • TrueCrypt 6.3a: On-the-fly Linux/Windows disk encryption tool, can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, can also encrypt an entire HDD/Partition/USB Drive (Windows Freeware).

Startup Tools

  • Autoruns 10.01: Displays All the entries from startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys, Explorer shell extensions,toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock, LSA Providers, Remove Drivers and much more which helps to remove nasty spyware/adware and viruses. (Windows Freeware).
  • HijackThis 2.0.4: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more (Windows Freeware).
  • Silent Runners Revision 61: A free script that helps detect spyware, malware and adware in the startup process (Windows Freeware).
  • Startup Control Panel 2.8: A tool to edit startup programs (Windows Freeware).
  • Startup Monitor 1.02: It notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup (Windows Freeware).

System Information Tools

  • Astra 5.46: Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant (Dos Freeware).
  • BlueScreenView 1.26: Scans minidump files for BSOD (blue screen of death) crash information (Windows Freeware).
  • CPU Identification utility 1.18: Detailed information on CPU (CHKCPU.EXE) (Dos Freeware).
  • CPU-Z 1.54: It gathers information on some of the main devices of your system (Windows Freeware).
  • CTIA CPU Information 2.7: Another CPU information tool (Dos Freeware).
  • Drive Temperature 1.0: Hard Disk Drive temperature meter (Windows Freeware).
  • GPU-Z 0.4.3: A lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU (Windows Freeware).
  • HDTune 2.55: Hard disk benchmarking and information tool. (Windows Freeware).
  • HWiNFO 5.5.0: S powerful system information utility (Dos Freeware).
  • Navratil Software System Information 0.60.38: High-end professional system information tool (Dos Freeware).
  • PC Wizard 2010.1.94: Powerful system information/benchmark utility designed especially for detection of hardware. (Windows Freeware).
  • PCI 32 Sniffer 1.4 (2606): Device information tool (similar to unknown devices) (Windows Freeware).
  • PCI and AGP info Tool (2606): The PCI System information & Exploration tool. (Dos Freeware).
  • SIW 2010.0428: Gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings. (Windows Freeware).
  • Speccy 1.02.156: An advanced System Information tool for your PC (Windows Freeware).
  • SysChk 2.46: Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC (Dos Freeware).
  • System Analyser 5.3w: View extensive information about your hardware (Dos Freeware).
  • UnknownDevices 1.4.20 (2606): Helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are (Windows Freeware).
  • Update Checker 1.037: Scans your computer for installed software and checks for newer releases on FileHippo (Windows Freeware).
  • USBDeview 1.70: View/Uninstall all installed/connected USB devices on your system (Windows Freeware).

Testing Tools

  • Bart’s Stuff Test 5.1.4: Long term heavy stress testing storage devices (Windows Freeware).
  • CPU/Video/Disk Performance Test 5.7: a tool to test cpu, video, and disk (Dos Freeware).
  • Disk Speed 1.0: Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool (Windows Freeware).
  • H2testw 1.4: Check your USB Flash memory cards, internal/external hard drives and network drives for errors with this tool (Windows Freeware).
  • HDD Scan 3.2: HDDScan is a Low-level HDD diagnostic tool, it scans surface find bad sectors etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • IsMyLcdOK (Monitor Test) 1.02: Allows you to test CRT/LCD/TFT screens for dead pixels and diffective screens (Windows Freeware).
  • PC-Check 6.21: Easy to use hardware tests (Dos Commercial).
  • S&M Stress Test 1.9.1: CPU/HDD/Memory benchmarking and information tool, including temperatures/fan speeds/voltages (Windows Freeware).
  • System Speed Test 4.78: It tests CPU, harddrive, ect. (Dos Freeware).
  • Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0: A tool to test Hard Disk Drive (Dos Freeware).

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Tweakers

  • Dial a Fix 0.60.0.24: Fix errors and problems with COM/ActiveX object errors and missing registry entries, Automatic Updates, SSL, HTTPS, and Cryptography service (signing/verification) issues, Reinstall internet explorer etc. comes with the policy scanner (Windows Freeware).
  • Disable Autorun: A small tweak which disables processing of autorun.inf to protect your PC from usb autorun viruses (Windows Freeware).
  • Disable Compress Old Files: This registry tweak is useful when Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files (Windows Freeware).
  • EzPcFix 1.0.0.16: Helpful tool when trying to remove viruses, spyware, and malware (Windows Freeware).
  • InstalledCodec 1.15: Disable/Enable Installed Codec drivers and DirectShow filters (Windows Freeware).
  • KeyTweak 2.3.0: A program to Remap Keyboard Layout, you can even customize a broken key to an unused key (Windows Freeware).
  • Protect a Drive from Autorun Virus: Protect your pen drive from being infected when you plug it in an infected PC. (Windows Freeware).
  • RemoveWGA 1.2: Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Removal tool (Windows Freeware).
  • RRT: Remove Restrictions Tool 3.0: To Re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del, Folder Options and Registry tools etc. (Windows Freeware).
  • Shell Extensions Manager (ShellExView) 1.47: An excellent tool to View and Manage all installed Context-menu/Shell extensions (Windows Freeware).
  • ShellMenuNew 1.01: View/Change the list of all menu items in the ‘New’ submenu of Windows Explorer (Windows Freeware).
  • Show Hidden Devices: Device Manager hides nonpresent devices that are not physically present in the system, but still have configuration information in the Registry. (Windows Freeware).
  • TweakUI 2.10: This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in Windows Xp (Windows Freeware).
  • Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.1: A TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista (Windows Freeware).
  • Write Protect USB Devices: Tweak your PC to make USB Pen Drive, Memory Card or Thumb Drive as Read Only (Windows Freeware).
  • Xp-AntiSpy 3.97.9: it tweaks some Windows XP functions, and disables some unneeded Windows services quickly (Windows Freeware).
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For the discussion of the program and its capabilities see the article: Norton Ghost 2003 Iso Image DownloadNikolai BezroukovA Slightly Skeptical View on Norton Ghost.

Norton Ghost 2003 is last representative of the original like of Ghost. althouth still a DOS program it has Windows shell that can launch it directly from Windows, reboot PC to DOS using a virutal partition with DOS execute backup and return to Windows.

Using DOS has its limitations but it also introduces important advantages. First of all the image both creation and restoration of the image is performed without interference of some possibly parasitic programs like spyware and viruses. That makes Ghost 2003 especially attractive for fighting those beasts.

Norton 2003 speed in copying partitions disk to disk is very impressive, speed of copying igmage to DVD often sucks.

Since image-based backup only copies raw data, backups made using this method do not contain a direct catalog of files that can be used for the restoration of a single file. Amazing feature of Ghost 2003 is that it transcend this limitation:it permits to mount a partition image as a logical drive and can recover a single file from within the image-based backup.

You do not need to restore the image on the same drive: during restore Norton Ghost automatically adjust the restore process for disk parameters of the target disk, so within some reasonable range you can use a different disk for a target than you used for the backup. This feature is very convenient for disk upgrades. For example if you changed 20G drive to 40G drive on your laptop GHOST proportionally increases each partition so that they fill entire 40G. In this case you usually do not have any problems with installed applications. Differences covered by Ghost and similar programs include a difference in the size, number of heads, number of tracks per cylinder, or even the numbers or size of the sectors in a given track.

In case you need to create a backup on CD/DVD the right way is to use Norton Ghost not some semi-debugged programs like Nero backup: with the latter you risk not being able to restore the data (unless you perform testing beforehand).

Ghost is much better then many similar (often half-baked) commercial partition backup programs like partition backup option in Nero Backup. In the latter case you might be deeply disappointed if you have disks other then IDE when you need to restore the partition. I was ;-)

The speed of Norton Ghost 2003 in disk to disk operation is really amazing: approx 10 min to backup a partition with ~4G of data (many small html files) with the image size slightly over 2G and just 3-4 min to restore this partition. For typical windows XP C drive (say 10G of data) Ghost 2003 takes approximately 25 min and produces image approximately 7G in size. For comparison to create a RAR archive for the 4G partition takes over an hour on the same computer. I still feel more comfortable with Ghost 2003 more then with Ghost 2004 (Ghost 9). IMHO Ghost 2003 has value of its own due to its DOS roots. For example if your computer is infected with spyware it should be restored using DOS boot.

You can burn the image directly to DVD ( Norton 8(2003) supports many drives out of the box, but the speed is very slow. Generally it's not a recommended mode of using Ghost, at least for me. With Norton Ghost 2993 you can only use CD ROM and DVD drives recognized by Ghost. IMho it's much quester and safer to create frist an image on disk and then burn it ti CD or DVD.

You should have enough extra drive space to store the image on the hard drive (IMHO with current desktop hard drives it's typical to have half drive empty; with laptop USB drive can be used.)

If you need to burn the image of a large harddrive on multiple CDs, the best way to do it is to create it on hard drive (using the ‘-split=700’ command, a large drive can be saved into multiple 700 MB images) and then burning those to CD using XP native capabilities or any commercial burner like Nero.

Norton Ghost 2003 (Ghost 8) and earlier is unable to create image in Windows mode and needs to reboots to DOS. That might create several problems for which Norton Ghost 9 and 10 can be a better solutions:

  • In creating images for devices that has no DOS drivers (for example some PCMCIA drives). You can use additional partition and then copy it with Partition magic but that's double work and time.
  • Creating images from or to devices connected to your laptop docking station (it needs drivers and all drives installed on docking station will be cur after rebooting into DOS).

Recently Norton Ghost emerged as a powerful anti-spyware tool. SeeFighting Spyware Paranoia.This is especially important for computers from vendors that does not supply 'factory install image' on a special partition of the harddrive (HP and IBM PCs have such partitions and a special software to restore them).

Note: Older versions of Norton Ghost (2003 and earlier) cost almost nothing and are still quite capable for users with regular desktops (less so for laptops). With the current double layer DVD technology there is a possibility to write an image of C drive on one double layer DVD.
It makes a perfect backup solution: you can create a compressed image of the disk partition and then burn to DVD each week. In most cases 'clean' image of the boot drive (usually around 10-12G for a typical Windows XP installation) can be compressed by Ghost into the image that is 7-9G. Absence of a set of 'recovery' Ghost images can be considered as one of the most dangerous mistakes any PC user can make and can cost many hours of troubleshooting even if you know windows reasonably well.

If you have a really large set of installed programs and as a result your C drive compresses into more then one double layer DVD you can try to shrink the size of your OS partition before that. Sometimes 20-30% by removing trash, unnecessary programs, temporary Internet Explorer files and old cookies. Actually non-essential programs can be installed on the second partition instead of typicalC:Program Files location that is used a s a default by most programs.

Norton Ghost can be used for resizing partitions as it always restores the image using the size of target partition. For example I used it once to extend the size of C : partition on my laptop. The laptop has a 30G drive that was split into three partitions:

  1. C: 12G(NTFS)
  2. D: 7G (FAT32)
  3. E: 9G (FAT32).

I did not have a version of Partition Magic 8.0 that can do this trick and Partition Magic 6.0 did not have the capability to extent the NTFS partition. so I proceed using Ghost in the following way (please note that partition moving operations are pretty dangerous staff ):

  1. Backup all the drive (partitions C, D, and E) on USB drive using Norton Ghost (this will be the rescue images in case I mess something)
  2. Delete content of partition E: by quick reformat
  3. Create image of partition C on partition E: using Norton Ghost.
  4. Delete partition D using Windows XP disk manager
  5. Delete partition C and recreate it to the larger size 12+7=~19G using Windows install disk
  6. Restore the image of C partition from E: drive to newly created partition using Norton Ghost 2003 booted from floppy.

The whole operation took more then three hours and I probably would save some time by driving to the store and buying Partition Magic 8.0 and using it, but still it shows that the same goal can be achieved with just Norton Ghost.

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NEWS CONTENTS

Old News ;-)

This story began as a review of g4l, a Norton Ghost-type utility for Linux. But that's not how it ended up. Instead it's a story of two open source ghosts: g4u and g4l. As ghost stories go, this one is more sad than scary: the tale of a bastard son refusing to recognize his lineage, and of the resulting bad feelings on both sides of the dispute. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

Hubert Feyrer wrote g4u about six years ago. It's a NetBSD-based boot diskette similar in functionality to the popular Norton Ghost. G4u's name is shorthand for 'Ghost for Unix.'

Although Feyrer no longer has time to maintain the project -- he is now working on his Ph.D. dissertation -- it is still available for download on his Web site. I downloaded the CD ISO version and gave it try. It works just fine. I cloned a local partition on the same drive, after spending just a little time matching up the partitions as I knew them in Linux (hda1, hda2, hda3) with the names they are known by in BSD.

You can also clone entire drives, or backup to and restore from an FTP server. All in all, g4u is a very useful tool. Better yet, while it boots NetBSD, it can be used on drives and partitions containing all sorts of operating systems, from Windows, to OS/2, to Linux, to what-have-you.

The user interface is legacy command-line -- no pretty GUI, not even DOS- style colored menus. It's lean and mean, and it works. Feyrer licensed his gift to the world of free software using the BSD license, which requires nothing more than attribution of his work.

Years pass, g4l arrives

Early last year, Ghost for Linux appeared on freshmeat. The earliest versions of g4l bore a striking resemblance to g4u, but there was no attribution given Hubert Feyrer or g4u in the GPL-licensed Linux version.

The resemblance between the two projects was so striking that g4u's creator Hubert Feyrer felt compelled to perform a detailed analysis to demonstrate that g4l was based on g4u.

That analysis was apparently more than g4l's creator -- known only as nme -- could bear. He walked away from the project in a huff, saying of Feyrer that 'He now wants to force me by law, to add his license and credits to the code I wrote. This is not acceptable for me, so I quit work on g4l. Because of certain people, programming isn't much fun anymore.'

And quit he did, but the project did not die. This is an open source project, after all. A new maintainer named Frank Stephen stepped forward and took over.

It would have been a perfect time to heal the rift between g4u and g4l, but that was not to be. The new maintainer insisted -- against all the evidence -- that in his opinion, the original project had not been based on g4u. Besides, Stephen points out that (in his opinion) the project is so much different now than it was in the beginning that the whole issue is 'old news.'

Well-known Linux/free software advocate Rick Moen stepped up and wondered if Frank Stephen might just be nme behind a different name. Whether that is true or not, the two do share a certain aversion to giving Feyrer and g4u their due. Moen commented on the freshmeat project page:

I have no horse in this race, other than caring about the reputation for integrity of the Linux community, and it's extremely obvious to me that, your assertion notwithstanding, v0.12 blatantly copied Hubert Feyrer's work, illegally and dishonestly stripping his author credit. (Contrary to the assertions of some, fixing that wouldn't quite suffice, since G4L's GPL terms clash with Hubert's old-BSD licensing's advertising clause. G4L would have to include a license exception, to fix that additional glitch. Additionally, G4L would have to clarify that Hubert's terms, not GPL, apply to Hubert's work incorporated in G4L.)

An effort to heal the rift

Just when it looked as if there might not be a reasonable man within earshot of the g4l project, one stepped up. Michael Setzer II had made some modifications to g4l that he and other users needed. Since the project had an open upload policy at the time, he was able to make his version available to others. Both of the original authors, nme and Frank Stephen, eventually contacted Setzer, and gave him alone the ability to upload new releases to the project.

Probably the most important change Setzer has made was to finally give Hubert Feyrer and g4u some long overdue props. The opening screen for the current version of g4l now states:

Disclaimer concerning Copyright: Prior version(s) of g4l appear to have been based on G4U (Ghost for Unix) a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM by Hubert Feyrer (hubert@feyrer.de) Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,2004


G4U: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html

The disclaimer continues with a history of the project, including its maintainers and releases since the beginning. You have to give Setzer credit -- he even included a link to Feyrer's code analysis page.

But although it is a big step forward, it's not what Feyrer would like to see. What he wants to see is for both licenses to be lived up to.

In response to an email query about the disclaimer he added to g4l, Setzer told me:

I was trying to come up with a compromise. At the time, I had no contact with either of the g4l authors, and I did get a nice response from the G4U author, but his reply basically said that he wanted the original stuff put in, and still had never even looked at the later code. Not being able to get resolution to the situation, I added the disclaimer, and basically leave it up to the users to decide. If they think there is an issue, don't use g4l. But I don't know enough on the issue to make a complete judgment.

Tainted code

Given the resolute refusal of g4l's original authors to credit 4gu as their starting point, that's probably as good as it's going to get. Setzer cannot speak for either of them, so he can't do as Feyrer wants. Feyrer, on the other hand, doesn't have the time to go through the latest version of g4l code to see what's left that was copied from his work.

In the end I'm left with the feeling that something has been stolen -- something intangible. One of the greatest benefits that comes to the authors of free software is the feeling that they have done something worthwhile for the benefit of all, and the ego gratification of seeing others extend the work. To see your work taken by others and then claimed as their own steals both the joy and the gratification.

As Isaac Newton is reputed to have said some 430 years ago, and open source people are fond of repeating because it so aptly describes the process, 'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants' -- a noble sentiment that, at least until Setzer appeared, was not a part of this tale. Its absence has left an indelible mark of shame on the project.

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Norton Ghost 9.0 is based in large part on PowerQuest's Drive Image, which Symantec acquired in late 2003. Norton Ghost shines at full-system recovery, and with its new incremental image feature, it becomes viable for single-file and folder restores as well.

Ghost can create backup images of your entire hard drive to local storage, network drives, and optical discs (including DVDs), so you'll be certain that every bit of information is copied without fail. Norton handled media spanning flawlessly; Acronis does not support DVD writing.

The new incremental feature lets you create a baseline image, and then smaller incremental images moving forward, typically multiple times per day. Full images can take a long time to complete and can slow down your foreground operations (if you're invoking a backup before installing something new, for instance). We measured a 30 percent CPU drain during the full imaging, but incremental are fast. If you need to restore a file or folder from a full or incremental image, the Symantec Backup Image Browser lets you view and extract individual files and folders from your images.

We found it a bit inconvenient to have to choose the image to restore from first. We would prefer to choose the file first, and then be presented with a list of restore points. Also, the interface would be more helpful if it presented links to common file storage areas like the My Documents folder and the desktop.

Norton Ghost 9.0 is easy enough for anyone to use and provides an outstanding level of protection for your system. Those considering Norton Ghost might find Symantec's Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier ($99.95 list), which includes Ghost, GoBack, and other useful utilities, a good value

[July 21, 2005] Discounted Norton Ghost half-year update :-)

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  • NORTON GHOST 2005 (9.0) AND 2003 (3.0) $34.
  • Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 CD (OEM) $13
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  • Amazon.com Software Norton Ghost 2002 $9.95

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PCWorld.com - Acronis Revs True ImageIn my informal tests, Ghost 9 imaged a 3.2GB partition in 1 minute, 25 seconds, generating a 1.4GB image file. My shipping copy of True Image 8 completed an image of the same file in 2 minutes, 42 seconds, but it produced a smaller, 1.2GB file. (True Image 7 took 5 minutes, 34 seconds, making a 2.5GB file.)

The new Acronis True Image 8 feels more like a maintenance release than a major upgrade over version 7. It does, however, boost the backup application's performance to levels comparable to those of Symantec's recently launched (and quite speedy) Norton Ghost 9.

Both programs create sector-by-sector snapshots of your hard drive for easy recovery after a system crash; but in tests conducted for our recent review of Ghost 9, it performed dramatically faster than True Image 7 did, producing smaller images. Like Ghost 9, True Image 8 skips the re-creatable swap and hibernation files, yielding similar speeds and even smaller image sizes.

In my informal tests, Ghost 9 imaged a 3.2GB partition in 1 minute, 25 seconds, generating a 1.4GB image file. My shipping copy of True Image 8 completed an image of the same file in 2 minutes, 42 seconds, but it produced a smaller, 1.2GB file. (True Image 7 took 5 minutes, 34 seconds, making a 2.5GB file.)

Though Ghost 9 is speedier at creating images, True Image 8 is much faster at booting from the recovery disc. In my tests, Ghost 9 took a whopping 2 minutes, 25 seconds to launch, while True Image 8 took only around 15 seconds.

New tweaks in True Image 8 enable you to verify images before restoring them; and like version 7, version 8 can create incremental backups.

True Image 8 enjoys some clear advantages over Ghost 9. It works with any version of Windows (Ghost 9 works only with XP and 2000), it doesn't depend on Microsoft's .Net framework the way its competitor does, and its full version is $20 less expensive.

The worst drawback of True Image 8: Owners of previous versions have to pay $30 for this decidedly minor upgrade.

That said, if you're looking for a solid-performing, reasonably priced drive-imaging application, Acronis's latest True Image is a good choice.

[Dec 3, 2004]The FreeBSD Diary -- Disk cloning with Acronis True Image

I was chatting to people on IRC about my hardware failure. I mentioned I planned to ghost the disk ('ghost' being a synonym for clone, derived, I expect from Norton Ghost, a well respected disk cloning application).

Cloning an XP disk is not as simple as it sounds. During my googling, I found a few references to id generation. That is, XP keeps an ID somewhere on the drive and this ID has to be reset when cloning the disk. The references indicated that commercial products such as Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image can reset this ID appropriately. A straight dd won't do that.

My experience supports that idea, but I have no proof. I may be encountering some other problem. I found that Acronis True Image did what I wanted. Using dd failed. Mind you, I'm now unable to boot from the original system drive. I don't know why. Perhaps it has been corrupted during the process. I suspect that is why I didn't get dd to work. Read on!

Disk Cloning with Acronis True Image

I expected that installing RAID under XP would be the most challenging. It was actually straight forward. I installed a 3Ware card, hooked up the drives, and pressed ALT-3 when presented with that option during the booting process. I configured the disks for RAID-1 (mirror).

The difficult part was to clone the existing XP boot drive into the RAID array. A hardware RAID array looks exactly like a single drive to the operating system. That should simplify things.

The cloning software I chose was recommended by someone in the Bacula IRC channel. They mentioned Acronis True Image 8.0 by Acronis. This product has a free trial version which lasts for 15 days. I tried it. It worked. I cannot tell the difference between the original drive and the RAID array. Acronis True Image has a nice little Wizard which guides you through the cloning process. I will not go into detail.

... ... ...

I have great words to say about Acronis True Image 8.0. I looked at using Norton Ghost. Actually, I bought Norton Ghost, but will be returning it unopened. The advantage I see in using Acronis True Image is price and download. Acronis True Image costs less than Norton Ghost and you can download it.

[Dec 2, 2004] Ghost Image How to Create a Ghost Image

See How to Create a Ghost Boot Diskif needed.

Complete the following steps on the Ghost server (ghostsvr01.cns.ufl.edu). Login with your Gatorlink username and password.

  1. Run GhostSrv.exe C:Program FilesSymantecGhostGhostSrv.exe
  2. Enter a session name
  3. Select 'Create Image'
  4. Enter a descriptive Image File name. The format is modelName-OS-validInfo

    Example: For a Dell GX260 running Windows 2000 with the Novell client installed an appropriate name would be GX260-win2k-client.gho

  5. Click on 'Accept Clients'

Complete the remaining steps on the workstation from which you are creating the image.

  1. Use the Ghost Boot disk to boot up the computer.
  2. When the program starts, select GhostCast and then Unicast from the menu.
  3. Enter the session name you chose when starting GhostSrv.exe
  4. Specifiy the ip address as the ip address of the machine running GhostSrv.exe
  5. Hit OK.
  6. Select 'High Compression' and 'Proceed with Disk Image'
  7. When completed, remove the floppy and reset the computer.

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[Nov 15, 2004]Norton Ghost 9.0 PersonalSymantec Recovery Disk lets you restore data from a backup image even when the computer can't start up into Windows.

  • 'Hot imaging' lets you create backup images without restarting Windows
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  • Works with a wide range of hard drives and removable media, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices
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  • Norton Ghost 2003 is included to back up and restore data to: Windows 9x, Me, NT; Linux®; and DOS systems.

[Nov 15, 2004]Symantec - Norton Ghost 2003 tutorial

Earlier this year in their January issue, PC World published a short but decidedly negative review of Norton Ghost 2003. Sadly, after testing this newest version of Symantec's renowned backup / disk imaging program, I have to concur.

Norton Ghost 2003 promises a lot, but for me and many others, it failed to deliver anything but trouble. Those are difficult words for me to utter, as I am a long-time fan of Symantec products and a successful user of Norton Ghost 2002, which I recommend in my latest book, PC Fear Factor.

First, the positive news about NG 2003. This latest version of Ghost has many great new features, including a Windows based user interface for launching backups (to replace the DOS user interface), support for more internal CD writers, support for some USB and firewire CD writers, and support for some DVD writers. The user can now set a password on his hard disk backup without having to run Ghost using a command line switch, a task that would vex most mortal PC users. In addition, the product comes with some truly outstanding interactive tutorials that help compensate for the (still) Einsteinian product documentation.

Reviewer: A software user from not Moscow, Russia

If like me you are somewhat perplexed by the erratic reviews that this and other 'disk imaging' utilities receive, both here and on amazon.com (always a useful source of opinion…), then hopefully this one may help.

I'd used Ghost 2002 extensively and agree that it was far from user friendly, especially for the novice. I was forced to upgrade because it supports XP's NTFS.

Although I'm an experienced PC user, I probably only utilize ~10% of the product's capabilities, i.e. I simply want a complete backup image of my main hard drive for fast recovery purposes. Whilst the product claims to backup directly to CD/DVD, my experience with this method has been problematic and is probably related to the painfully slow burning process rather than Ghost itself, but do first check your drive for compatibility against Norton's database. Instead, I back up by first creating images on another hard drive (or partition, space permitting) and then burning those to CD using XP or Nero. [Tip: using the '-split=700' command, a large drive can be saved into multiple 700 MB images for later burning if required].

The 2003 upgrade is a definite improvement on its predecessor with a much friendlier user interface and backup/restore capability from within Windows. Whilst my backup method may not be acceptable to everyone, it works reliably and that'll do me.

It is better than those recovery cds that come with your computer'

Sam on 25-Sep-2004 08:50:44 PM

Pros: This is an excellent product. I obtained a Ghost software cd with an external USB hard drive that I had bought and I'm glad that it came with it. Using those recovery cds that came with my computer took about an hour to install, whereas; Ghost fully restores my system in as a little under than 10 minutes. That is using USB 2.0. Another good thing about Ghost is that it restores all your documents, settings, and tweaks. You'll have your computer back to what it was before some disaster.

Cons: Doesn't work with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card.

RAID killer'Mark McGinty on22-Sep-2004 08:20:47 AM

Pros: The damage is does is repairable, if you know what you're doing. (It really ought to display a big banner when you install that says 'NO RAID'. I usually don't read the help until I have a problem, but for this that's way too late.)

Cons: Irresponsibly alters the MBR and boot record, without making sure it can put them back. I didn't find out that RAID was unsupported until *after* it rendered my machine unbootable. Nice! But, as opposed to all of the other accounts I've read, I merely booted the recovery console (no ASR disk), ran FIXBOOT to make the ghost partition NT bootable, copied NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI, and then booted XP from ghost's twisted little partition. Then I used PartitionEdit to remove the BS partition and flag the original one active. Yes I was down for a few hours, yes it was frightening, but thanks to my investments into a laptop, USB floppy, and substantial skill set, it was not a catastrophe, I didn't lose a single file. Still it was an ugly incident, why couldn't it offer the option of a test, to make sure it can write to the drive under DOS, before it alters it in Windows? The boot loader will support booting DOS, why not use it, so worst case the user can still boot his/her O/S? It seems so simple!

T on 01-Sep-2004 11:41:03 AM

Pros: Does what it's suppose to. Image a drive. Great User Guide that covers everthing. Didn't run into any problems like those other people who complain about it. Just read the guide.

Cons: The DOS interface is a little hard to use but if you take the time to look at the user guide, you'll understand it. The GDisk feature is rather weak in my opinion and clunky to use with the DOS command.

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  • userguide.pdfFile Date:July 19, 2004 File Size:1,224,693 bytes Description:Norton Ghost 9.0 User's Guide
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**** Radified Guide to Norton Ghost by Symantec A Tutorial on How to Create and Restore Ghost Images

New version: 02.august.2004 - Symantec announces the release of Ghost v9.0. Ghost 9 is controversial, because it's not really Ghost. It's actually Drive Image, a similar imaging/cloning product originally developed by PowerQuest, a company Symantec purchased on 05.dec.2003.

The reason Ghost 9 (Drive Image in disguise) is controversial is because it supports a feature Symantec calls 'Hot Imaging', which allows you to to create images of/from a 'LIVE' operating system, while files are able to change. Hot imaging might sound attractive to the casual user, but it comes with hidden risks that concern many veterans of the program.

NOTE: To keep this introduction uncluttered, the remainder of this discussion on Norton Ghost v9.0 continues on its own page:> Norton Ghost v9.0 + hot imaging. I recommend you take a look. At the bottom of that page is a link that will bring you back here.

If you have no idea what an imaging/cloning program does or how it works, you should first read the Program Introduction. Then come back here & read the ditty on Ghost 9 & Hot-imaging.

  • Section 01 Introduction
  • Section 02 Obtaining and installing
  • Section 03 Creating Ghost Images
  • Section 04 Restoring Ghost Images
  • Section 05 Creating a bootable Ghost CD

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References

Symantec documentation

  • Ghost 2005
    • userguide.pdf Norton Ghost 2005 User's Guide
    • DRIVER_LIST.PDF Symantec Recovery Disk storage devices and NIC driver support list.
  • Ghost 2003
    • ghost2003_review.pdf Norton Ghost 2003 Reviewer's Guide File Date: August 7, 2002 File Size: 398,339 bytes
    • ghost2003_guide.pdf Norton Ghost 2003 User's Guide File Date: July 25, 2002 File Size: 1,495,120 bytes
    • ghost2003_getstart.pdf Norton Ghost 2003 Getting Started Guide July 24, 2002 File Size: 390,702 bytes
    • Updates to Norton Ghost 2003 The June 2003 update includes the following fixes:
      • Multiple USB2 controllers If you installed Norton Ghost 2003 on a computer that has multiple USB2 controllers, you can create or restore an image to an external USB2 device that is access by means of any of the USB2 controllers.
      • Restoring to external Maxtor USB or FireWire hard drive If Norton Ghost 2003 is installed, you can create or restore an image to an external Maxtor USB or FireWire hard drive.
      • Restoring from Ricoh MP525A using USB2 interface You can now restore an image from a Ricoh MP525A that is connected to the computer using a USB2 interface.
      • Intel ICH5 chipsets supported The Norton Ghost 2003 DOS applications, such as Ghost.exe, now work on computers that have the latest Intel ICH5 chipsets.
      • Linux LILO improvements This update now supports secondary loaders that span track boundaries, and a kernel image greater than 1024+48 kb on 4096 byte file systems. Norton Ghost 2003 only supports versions of LILO that are earlier than version 22. If your version is later than this, then you must boot from a secondary boot device and rerun LILO on the cloned disk to have a bootable system.
      • Updated Norton Ghost 2003 files The following Norton Ghost 2003 files have been updated: Ghost.exe, GhostWalker.exe, GDisk.exe, Ghwrap.exe, and Ghreboot.exe. Symantec recommends that the older versions of these files be replaced with the most current version.
  • Ghost 2002
    • ghost2002.pdf Norton Ghost 2002 User's Guide (also at Ghost2002 guide)
  • Ghost 2001
    • Norton ghost user guide (copyright 1998-1999; also at ghost

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Ghost 2003 menu choices

  • BackupPerforms local cloning operations to create an image file. Use this option to create an image file and save it to a local disk or partition; to a mapped network drive; or to a local external storage device such as a DVD drive, CD-R/RW drive, SCSI DAT tape drive, and so on. In previous Ghost versions, these operations were referred to as Disk-To-Image and Partition-To-Image.
  • RestorePerforms local cloning operations to restore an image file.
    Use this option to restore an image file from a local disk or partition, from a mapped network drive, or from a local external storage device. In previous Ghost versions, these operations were referred to as Image-To-Disk and Image-To-Partition.
  • View log-- Displays the log of recently performed cloning operations.This option is not available in previous consumer Ghost versions.

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  • ClonePerforms local cloning operations to write the contents of a disk or partition directly to another disk or partition on the same computer. This process is also known as cloning dynamically or 'on the fly.' In previous Ghost versions, these operations were referred to as Disk-To-Disk and Partition-To-Partition.Run Ghost InteractivelyRestart the computer and start Ghost.exeThis option allows you to run Ghost from a DOS environment without starting the computer from a bootable floppy disk. Ghost uses the Ghost Virtual Partition to create the DOS environment.
  • Peer-to-PeerPerforms cloning operations between two computers to create or restore an image file. Use this option when you want to clone to or from a different computer. Use a connection type such as peer to peer TCP/IP (which requires a network interface card at each computer), a USB 1.1 port and USB cable (not USB 2), an LPT port with a crossover cable, and so on. For an explanation of the connection choices, see the document Using Ghost to save or write an image to a different computer. Note that some types of peer-to-peer operations may require that you add command line parameters under this option.
  • Create Virtual Partition Creates a virtual partition file that has the options you specify, and restarts the computer into the virtual partition. When Ghost restarts the computer into the virtual partition, the computer is at a DOS prompt (unless you specified otherwise in Advanced Settings for the virtual partition). This virtual partition does not include Ghost.exe and does not run Ghost.exe unless you specify for it to do so in the Advanced Settings for the virtual partition. To exit from the virtual partition and restart the computer into Windows, run the utility GhReboot.exe. This utility changes the active partition so that Windows loads on the next startup.
    NOTE: In the cloning options that use a Ghost Virtual Partition, which are Backup, Restore, Clone, Run Ghost Interactively, and Peer-to-Peer, Ghost determines the computer's current configuration information before restarting the computer and updates the Ghost Virtual Partition as needed.
  • Ghost utilities
    • Boot Wizard Creates Ghost bootable floppy disks.
      • For an explanation of the types of bootable floppy disks see the document How to choose a type of boot disk or boot image.
      • Norton Ghost 2003 includes updated versions of DOS drivers for selected network interface cards.
    • Norton Ghost ExplorerDisplays and manages the contents of image files.See the document Adding and deleting files within images with Ghost Explorer. This document includes links to other documents in the Ghost Knowledge Base regarding Ghost Explorer.
    • Norton Ghost User's GuideOpens the Norton Ghost User's Guide in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF).

    Ghost options

    • When you run Ghost from Windows, Ghost configuration options are controlled in two locations:
    • The Options choice on the Ghost menu bar. Some of the settings in Options apply generally to Ghost and some apply only to cloning operations. The settings for cloning operations are the default settings. These settings apply to all cloning operations except when you choose a different setting in 'Advanced settings.'
    • The button 'Advanced settings,' which is accessible when you choose any of the following cloning options: Backup, Restore, Clone, Peer-to-Peer, Run Ghost Interactively, Create Virtual Partition, and Image Integrity Check. The settings that you choose in 'Advanced setting' override the settings that are in Options, but only for the current operation. The next time you run a cloning operation, Ghost uses the settings in Options.

New features in Norton Ghost 2003:

  • Ghost Virtual Partition Norton Ghost 2003 includes an option to create a Ghost Virtual Partition for your computer. The Virtual Partition provides a DOS environment for running Ghost. It is a file that Ghost saves on the hard disk. When Ghost restarts the computer, Ghost loads the Virtual Partition instead of loading Windows. The Virtual Partition nearly eliminates the need to create a Ghost bootable floppy disk.
  • Graphical User Interface. This is not such a great achivement, butIn Norton Ghost 2003, all Ghost operations can be started from Windows. After you set the cloning options in Windows (rather than in DOS) and tell Ghost to proceed with the cloning operation, Ghost automatically restarts the computer into the Ghost Virtual Partition, launches Ghost.exe, performs the cloning operation, and then restarts the computer into Windows. If you find that a particular option you used in previous Ghost versions is not available in Windows, you can use the option 'Run Ghost Interactively' to work in the DOS Ghost menu, or to run Ghost from a DOS command line with the same switches that you used in previous Ghost versions.
  • Ability to save image files to NTFS partitions. In previous Ghost versions, Ghost could not save an image file to a local NTFS partition because DOS does not read NTFS partitions. Norton Ghost 2003 has been written to be able to access NTFS partitions to save image files, and to restore disks or partitions from image files. Note, though, that Ghost can save only image files to local NTFS partitions, and not other types of files. When you run Ghost with an option that creates a file such as a log file or CRC file, use an appropriate option on the Ghost command line to save that file to a different location. For instance, if you run Ghost to create an image file, to save that image file to drive D, which is an NTFS partition, and to create a log file, use a switch that directs Ghost to save the log file to location other than drive D, such as a floppy disk.
  • Support for some DVD drives. Norton Ghost 2003 can save images to and restore images from a DVD disc that uses the format DVD+ RW, DVD- RW, DVD+R, or DVD-R. Note that this is the format of the disc, rather than the format of the drive. Ghost does not support other DVD disc formats. For a list of tested DVD drives, see the document Ghost 2003 compatibility with CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD drives. Note that with Firewire or USB connections, Ghost cannot perform a Restore operation from a DVD drive when you use the Ghost Basic Restore option in the Ghost interface in Windows. To restore an image from a DVD drive over a Firewire or USB connection, choose the options 'Ghost Advanced' and then 'Run Ghost Interactively.' For more information on the problem, see the document Error: 'Symantec Ghost could not find the image file on the CD/DVD' when restoring an image.
    Note:This issue has been resolved with the latest LiveUpdate for Norton Ghost 2003. To apply the update, open Norton Ghost 2003, and then click the LiveUpdate icon.
  • Support for USB 2 and Firewire connections. Norton Ghost 2003 supports USB 1.1, USB 2, and Firewire connections for cloning operations that work with an external storage device. Ghost does not support USB 2 connections or Firewire connections for cloning to or from a second computer. Note that Norton Ghost 2003 and 2002 do support USB 1.1 connections for cloning to or from a second computer. See the document Ghost compatibility with external USB devices.
  • Other new features
    • Norton Ghost 2003 is Windows XP logo certified.
    • Ghost 2003 includes support for large drives (over 128 gigabyte).
    • Ghost 2003 includes support for the Linux EXT3 file system.
    • Ghost 2003 supports the use of a mapped network drive for cloning between two computers.
    • Ghost 2003 provides support for creating a bootable CD that uses PC DOS rather than MS DOS.
    • Ghost 2003 includes the utility Ghost Walker.

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Acronis True Image 9.0 Downloadable Software - Retail at Newegg.com $30 for download. Main advantage, you can use your PC during the image creation.

Backup only the necessary server disk sector contents
User-defined compression levels
Multivolume archives
Password protection
Reduce your disk backup time and storage by excluding paging and hibernate files from the disk backup image
Manage a PC performance by changing the disk imaging process priority
Supports hard disks of all sizes
Create full images (everything on your PC), incremental images (changes since last backup), and differential images (changes since last full backup)
Use your PC during image creation with our no reboot feature
Verify disk backup image before a restore
Change partition type, file system, size, and disk location during restore*
Check the file system after a restore
Acronis Secure Zone
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

PCWorld.com - Acronis Revs True ImageIn my informal tests, Ghost 9 imaged a 3.2GB partition in 1 minute, 25 seconds, generating a 1.4GB image file. My shipping copy of True Image 8 completed an image of the same file in 2 minutes, 42 seconds, but it produced a smaller, 1.2GB file. (True Image 7 took 5 minutes, 34 seconds, making a 2.5GB file.)

The new Acronis True Image 8 feels more like a maintenance release than a major upgrade over version 7. It does, however, boost the backup application's performance to levels comparable to those of Symantec's recently launched (and quite speedy) Norton Ghost 9.

Both programs create sector-by-sector snapshots of your hard drive for easy recovery after a system crash; but in tests conducted for our recent review of Ghost 9, it performed dramatically faster than True Image 7 did, producing smaller images. Like Ghost 9, True Image 8 skips the re-creatable swap and hibernation files, yielding similar speeds and even smaller image sizes.

In my informal tests, Ghost 9 imaged a 3.2GB partition in 1 minute, 25 seconds, generating a 1.4GB image file. My shipping copy of True Image 8 completed an image of the same file in 2 minutes, 42 seconds, but it produced a smaller, 1.2GB file. (True Image 7 took 5 minutes, 34 seconds, making a 2.5GB file.)

Though Ghost 9 is speedier at creating images, True Image 8 is much faster at booting from the recovery disc. In my tests, Ghost 9 took a whopping 2 minutes, 25 seconds to launch, while True Image 8 took only around 15 seconds.

New tweaks in True Image 8 enable you to verify images before restoring them; and like version 7, version 8 can create incremental backups.

True Image 8 enjoys some clear advantages over Ghost 9. It works with any version of Windows (Ghost 9 works only with XP and 2000), it doesn't depend on Microsoft's .Net framework the way its competitor does, and its full version is $20 less expensive.

[Dec 3, 2004]The FreeBSD Diary -- Disk cloning with Acronis True Image

I was chatting to people on IRC about my hardware failure. I mentioned I planned to ghost the disk ('ghost' being a synonym for clone, derived, I expect from Norton Ghost, a well respected disk cloning application).

Cloning an XP disk is not as simple as it sounds. During my googling, I found a few references to id generation. That is, XP keeps an ID somewhere on the drive and this ID has to be reset when cloning the disk. The references indicated that commercial products such as Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image can reset this ID appropriately. A straight dd won't do that.

My experience supports that idea, but I have no proof. I may be encountering some other problem. I found that Acronis True Image did what I wanted. Using dd failed. Mind you, I'm now unable to boot from the original system drive. I don't know why. Perhaps it has been corrupted during the process. I suspect that is why I didn't get dd to work. Read on!

Disk Cloning with Acronis True Image

I expected that installing RAID under XP would be the most challenging. It was actually straight forward. I installed a 3Ware card, hooked up the drives, and pressed ALT-3 when presented with that option during the booting process. I configured the disks for RAID-1 (mirror).

The difficult part was to clone the existing XP boot drive into the RAID array. A hardware RAID array looks exactly like a single drive to the operating system. That should simplify things.

The cloning software I chose was recommended by someone in the Bacula IRC channel. They mentioned Acronis True Image 8.0 by Acronis. This product has a free trial version which lasts for 15 days. I tried it. It worked. I cannot tell the difference between the original drive and the RAID array. Acronis True Image has a nice little Wizard which guides you through the cloning process. I will not go into detail.

... ... ...

I have great words to say about Acronis True Image 8.0. I looked at using Norton Ghost. Actually, I bought Norton Ghost, but will be returning it unopened. The advantage I see in using Acronis True Image is price and download. Acronis True Image costs less than Norton Ghost and you can download it.

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