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OTHER DISK UTILITIES
CD Recording Utilities (Golden Hawk)
unrated [added 12-08-98 updated 06-26-99]
"...A set of useful CD-R applications for MSDOS. They support every major CDROM recorder..." The following freeware programs are included in the larger Golden Hawk commercial DOS distribution package:
Authors: Golden Hawk Technology (1999). Suggested by Dev Teelucksingh.
06-26-99: v3.7D (6-99) released (support for additional recorders)
16 and 32-bit versions available (16-bit version does not support IDE devices):
CD-BENCH- Benchmark program for CD-ROM drives.
unrated [added 04-17-99]
Evaluate the performance of your CD-ROM with CD-BENCH. Good docs, and includes options to defeat caching effects. From the docs: Many common benchmarks report a...wrong result because they suppose that the reading speed is constant, so they read only at the beginning of the disc. CD-BENCH....is the only benchmark that reads the disc in six different points and displays six results, so you can see if and how the speed varies." Runs only in plain DOS mode (not Win9x). Available options:
-S reports the size of the disc without performing test. -D change the delay preceding reading. default=500 (millisec) -B change the quantity of data read. default=50 (blocks) -I start test immediately (no initial spin-up). -Q decrease readings from 6 to 3
My notes: tested successfully on a generic internal 32X CD-ROM but failed to access a parallel port external drive.
download pn_cdb21.zip (14K)
XMSDSK & EMSDSK- RAM disk can be created, resized, destroyed from c-line.
unrated [updated 10-25-98]
A RAM disk is much faster than a hard disk but it's memory only exists while your computer is on. I rarely use a RAM disk- and have little knowledge of the comparative benefits of available shareware and freeware programs. The FU_RD RAM disk suite caught my eye primarily because the RAM disk can be created, resized, or destroyed from the command line. In short, you don't have to reboot your machine to adjust the size of the RAM disk or to reclaim it's memory for other uses. Note: Resizing will destroy any files present in the RAM disk. Author: Franck Uberto. France. (1998)
The FU_RD suite includes XMSDSK.EXE & EMSDSK.EXE for use with XMS or EMS memory, respectively. A third program (EMSDSK86) is included for 8086 machines.
Features:
New in v1.9i (8-98): Parameter "/c" added, to set a cluster size.
download fu_rd19i.zip (75K)
NTFSDOS- NTFS File System Driver for DOS/Windows.
unrated [added 8-16-98]
"NTFSDOS.EXE is a read-only network file system driver for DOS/Windows that is able to recognize and mount NTFS drives for transparent access. It makes NTFS drives appear indistinguishable from standard FAT drives, providing the ability to navigate, view and execute programs on them from DOS or from Windows, including from the Windows 3.1 File Manager and Windows 95 Explorer."- Systems Internals web site.
Authors: Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, (1998)
download ntfs20r.zip (38K)
DFSee- Filesystem browser and analyser ([V]FAT[32], HPFS, NTFS).
unrated [added 7-5-98; updated 04-20-99]
Display File Systems is a comprehensive disk sector and file systems information utility for power users. Handles information from HPFS, NTFS and various FAT partitions. Includes OS/2, DOS and NT versions. The DOS version (about 110K) also gives correct info about HPFS partitions. Capabilities include sector reading and dumping, bad sector scanning, sector checksums, file system analysis (e.g., displays errors in FS), MBR walking, file recovery, and a host of other functions I don't comprehend. Author: Jan van Wijk, Netherlands. (1999); Suggested by Lars-Erik Sandberg.
04-20-99: v2.94; 4-99: See home page for version history and latest updates.
download dfsee.zip (580K)
DISK WIPERS
Also see: File Wipers and WIPEUTIL
1. WIPEM- Disk shredder overwrites unused hard disk space, Win swap files.
unrated
From the docs... "WIPEM is an assembler DOS program that protects the private data on your hard drives...Although there are several other programs...which perform the wiping of the unused space, all these leave the directory entries untouched and the files final cluster still contains data....Directories scanning, finding files FAT chains, unused cluster scanning are all done directly reading the sectors on disk. WIPEM uses different patterns when overwriting data on disks. If used repeatedly even advanced data recovery methods (like scanning the disk plates) won't give results." This baby will wipe your Windows swap file too- a smart idea.
Limitations: not usable on FAT12 (floppies) or FAT32 disks .
Author: Emil Laurentiu. Cardware.
Usage: WIPEM drive: [options] /w - wipe (writes on disk - otherwise only simulates) /e - only the erased space (free clusters) /d - only directory entries /f - only the files end (final clusters) /p - hide .pgp files (mark delete) /r - restore .pgp files (no other operation is performed)
download wipeem01.zip (11K)
2. WipeFree- Wipe over free disk space (DOS and Win32 versions).
unrated [added 07-10-99]
From the docs: "WipeFree for DOS creates files and writes to them until the drive is full. Each file can be up to 2GB and up to 1000 files can be created... WipeFree32 can handle this by creating a single file. WipeFree32 can overwrite the free areas twice. The parameter for this is /2." Author: Uwe Sieber, Germany (1999). Home Page.
download wipefree.zip (44K)
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