Dos Utils, Which Dos Utils Do You Know and use

[ewieldra]

I want to know which dos utils you know of and still use
The list below are the ones i know .. i don't use them all ..

- !bios 3.20 (FreeWare)
- Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0.554
- Acronis True Image Server 8.1.954
- Active Disk Image 2.0
- Active KillDisk 1.1.1
- Active Partition Recovery 3.0
- Active PassWord Changer 3.0.280
- Active Uneraser 3.0
- ATA Tools 1.2 HardDiskPassWords and Smart Interface
- CheckIT 3.0
- Cmos Password Tool 4.8 (FreeWare)
- Convar Clone Maxx 1.0 (FreeWare)
- Convar Erase Maxx (FreeWare)
- CopyR.DMA Build 013 (Bad Disk Copier) (FreeWare)
- DelPart Partition Deleter (FreeWare)
- Diy DataRecovery MBRTools 2.2.100 (FreeWare)
- Diy DataRecovery Disk Patch 2.1.100
- Duse USB Drivers (FreeWare)
- Drive Image 2002
- Edit BootINI 1.01 (FreeWare)
- F-Prot Antivirus Dos 3.16b (FreeWare)
- Fujitsu HDD Diagnostics 6.30 (FreeWare)
- Ghost 8.32
- HDAT2 4.04.02 (FreeWare)
- HDD Regenerator 1.51
- Hitachi & IBM Feature Tool 2.01 (FreeWare)
- Hitachi & IBM Fitness Test 4.06 (FreeWare)
- HWInfo 4.9.8
- Ghost 2003
- Lost & Found 1.06
- Maxtor PowerMax 4.22 (FreeWare)
- MBR Works
- NTFS Dos Pro 5.0
- Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10
- Paragon Disk Wiper Pro 5.6
- Paragon Mount Everything 3.0
- Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1274
- Partition Table Doctor 3.0
- PhotoRec 6.3 (FreeWare)
- Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 1.1.2.64
- PCCheck 5.5
- Quick View Pro 2.56
- Samsung Disk Diagnostics 1.28 (FreeWare)
- Seagate Desktop Edition 3.02.04 (FreeWare)
- Spinrite 6.0
- Symantec Ghost Walker 2003.793
- Symantec Partition Magic 8.05
- TestDisk 6.3 (FreeWare)
- Universal Network Client 5.6 (FreeWare)
- Victoria 3.33 Low-Level HDD Diagnostics (FreeWare)
- Volkov Commander 4.99 (FreeWare)
- Western Digital Diag 5.04f (FreeWare)
- RegViewer 4.2 Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP Registry Viewer 4.2 (FreeWare)
- Winternals Disk Commander 1.1

[Nuno Brito]

Your list is very good, I know most apps, but there are a few I will surely look closer in the future.. I would only suggest mHdd [freeware] wich also comes from http://hddguru.com like victoria 3.33




And perhaps a compressor like 7zip for DOS (7za.exe)

[Mike69]

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[wendy]

This present list looks heavily focused on disk management and system repair. One normally did not do a lot of that when dos ruled the world.

These are a sampling of commercial apps in use. Most of the ancient DOS boxen came fitted with a third-party menu-system, where the OEM would prepare common commands for use.

This is a list of commercial stuff etc that i ended up buying, well, most of it.

• 4dos (command interpreter) (now freeware)
• Boxer (text editor) for DOS and OS/2
• Cenvi (a c-- batch-language)
• Norton Commander (a file manager)
• Norton Ghost. I had vers 5.1
• Norton Utilities
• PKZIP (yes, well, i registered it!). any way, i did not go for StupenDOS.
• QEdit (the editor for DOS par excellance)
• QEMM (memory mamager)
• Quercus Rexx (DOS, OS/2, Windows).
• RAR (the early DOS and OS/2 actually had useful GUI interfaces.
• Stacker for DOS and OS/2. Disk space was at a premium then
• TSE (the semware editor, for DOS)
• Xtree (file manager)

There were a lot of other stuff out there which i did not particularly buy. However, even fairly early, attention was being turned to the more powerful 32-bit systems, such as OS/2 (1994), Windows 9x (1998) and Windows NT (1999). DOS remained the home use machine, except for cdroms. The layout for making cdroms was done in OS/2 warp 4, and the actual burning done in a dedicated warp 3.0 session.

• PC Tools (it's a variety i did not buy as such, but came with PC-DOS).

In days of freeware, one normally fits out some extra things. A number of these were unix ports, eg ls.

4DOS and REXX were quite powerful enough to write a lot of stuff without having to resort to third-party stuff. (i never did use REXX under OS/2 that much!)

• 4desc.exe (a freeware browser/description-editor)
• cdd.com (change drive and directory)
• do.exe (a little utility that batched about 20 utilities into one, eg "do cmos save"
• findfile.com (a very fast file-find, with UNIX-like wildcards)
• fm.com (a smallish 9k hex exitor.
• helpmake.exe (so you could make your own help files!)
• list.com (vernon buerg's excecllent list viewer
• PCMAG stuff. This was the staple of much of DOS utilities.
• regina rexx (appeared too late to be of general use)
• requires.com (useful for grovelling around Win31 stuff)
• t.com (ibm's tiny-editor for DOS and OS/2. 9k)
• touch.exe (a useful version found with many options)

Dos was fairly daunting even in those days, but REXX and CENVI allowed the smooth transition from DOS to OS/2 and Windows. Some batches i wrote in REXX for Quercus-rexx/DOS still are used under Regina rexx/win32.

Still, a lot of effort was saved by making the stuff portible from the start.

PC-MAG had lots of interesting debug scripts for writing your own scripts.

• Partition Magic - Started out as the sort of things OS/2 users used. I mean, who else multi-booted? In any case, the OS/2 FDISK was more than adequate for most needs.
• MBR stuff. Most of the MBR stuff you see now, some folks used to use small DOS com files. It was pretty geeky stuff to me though, and there was nothing better to confusing fdisk and defrag.
• Hard drive fitness stuff - Actually, i never heard of theses until recently. This is the sort of stuff you used to get a techie in to do. Must be to do with putting lots of stuff on the system.
• IBM's reference diskette. A hacked version of PC-DOS 4.01 used to modify the system bios. Most systems had a bios on board.

[ewieldra]

@ALL

Thnx...

There used to be an Dos version of Clam Antivirus.... does anyone know ...

[monohouse]

allright there is a free memory testing tool called memtest86, check it out.