Vista - hard disk checking software?

Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
works in vista x64?

Thanks

Norton Utilities isn't good 3rd party disk software..


"markm75" <markm75c@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?
>
> Thanks
>

For the average home user, all you need is chkdsk and the drive diagnostic
tool provided by the mfg of your hard drive.
As stated, Norton Utilities was a waste of money.

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"markm75" <markm75c@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?
>
> Thanks
>

Using the word "good" and Norton Utilities (heck, Norton anything) in the
same sentence is hereby forbidden! (-:

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"markm75" <markm75c@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?
>
> Thanks
>

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Using the word "good" and Norton Utilities (heck, Norton anything) in the
> same sentence is hereby forbidden! (-:

Harsh, dude. I used to love Norton back in the Windows 95 days. Uh, not
since.

Ken

markm75;826448 Wrote:
> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?
>
> Thanks
What hardware do you run?


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"markm75" <markm75c@msn.com> wrote

> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?

Norton Utilities were useless in XP. Good doesn't belong in the same
sentence with them. Vista has the tools needed.

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On Feb 14, 3:54 am, "Rock" <R...@nospam.net> wrote:
> "markm75" <markm...@msn.com> wrote
>
> > Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> > works in vista x64?
>
> Norton Utilities were useless in XP. Good doesn't belong in the same
> sentence with them. Vista has the tools needed.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

I agree, they had gotten pretty bad in recent years.

I've just had alot of weird issues lately with my second harddrive
(400gb sata 1.5 gb/s) (D).. often I'll reboot and it will be repairing
indices and other odd things. I think its resulting in corruption of
my harddrive. I've even had the drive replaced too.. I guess I'll try
the seagate tools to see if it shows errors.

Use HD Tune (www.hdtune.com). It is a single .exe file. Nothing to install -
and there is a Vista ready version.

Run as administrator.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"markm75" <markm75c@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know of good 3rd party disk software like norton utilties that
> works in vista x64?
>
> Thanks
>

"Rock" wrote:

> Norton Utilities were useless in XP. Good doesn't belong in the same
> sentence with them. Vista has the tools needed.

The chkdsk tool is better in Vista. You can now do online disk checks of
your system drive and get realistic results. In prior Windows versions,
doing online disk checking led to lots of false positives for disk
"problems." Not any more. In addition, you now get a report as well even
when you run from the GUI mode.

You still must run chkdsk with the /f switch on a reboot. Maybe they'll fix
that one too in later versions.

Ken