What's in your "Recovery" Toolbox? (HDD, Registry, Backup/Sync, etc.)

I'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm looking
for opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:

1. HARD DISK DRIVE
______including MBR, Bad Sectors, Partitions, Disk Imaging

2. REGISTRY
______including clean, repair, backup, control/manage
______and (if possible) a novice-friendly GUI that explains every Key's
function and color-highlights suspicious entries

3. BACKUP
______including the entire OS

4. FILE/DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION
______I'm looking for SPEED primarily. I have a couple of (older)
utilities but they routinely crash and burn -or- lock up my system
because the load is too great (two of my 4 HDD's are 169 GB . . .)

Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;)

Angel

"CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message
news:1125257118.284987.280260@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> I'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm looking
> for opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:
>
> 1. HARD DISK DRIVE
> ______including MBR, Bad Sectors, Partitions, Disk Imaging
>
> 2. REGISTRY
> ______including clean, repair, backup, control/manage
> ______and (if possible) a novice-friendly GUI that explains every Key's
> function and color-highlights suspicious entries
>
> 3. BACKUP
> ______including the entire OS
>
> 4. FILE/DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION
> ______I'm looking for SPEED primarily. I have a couple of (older)
> utilities but they routinely crash and burn -or- lock up my system
> because the load is too great (two of my 4 HDD's are 169 GB . . .)
>
> Thanks everyone! Open to all ideas, even if I left something out. ;)
>
> Angel
>
UBCD4 is the tool for you. Google for it, download and burn a copy. You can
boot it from startup (CD first enabled in BIOS), and your on your way.
best wishes..OJ

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:55:06 GMT, old jon wrote:

> "CURIOUS ANGEL" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote in message
> news:1125257118.284987.280260@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
>> I'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm looking
>> for opinions on the best utilities for the following functions:
>> ...

> UBCD4 is the tool for you. Google for it, download and burn a copy. You can
> boot it from startup (CD first enabled in BIOS), and your on your way.
> best wishes..OJ

The web page for UBCD (and Bart's) seems to say that they only run under
XP. If this is incorrect I would love to hear about it, as I also run W2K.

Antoine Dese wrote:
> The web page for UBCD (and Bart's) seems to say that they only run under
> XP. If this is incorrect I would love to hear about it, as I also run W2K.

Antoine, I've had Ultimate Boot CD for awhile now (sorry guys, I guess
I should have specified I was looking for -->>WINDOWS utilities, not
DOS) and I'm pretty sure it works with Windows 2000 Professional. Make
sure you're completely SvcPack/Rollup'd tho. ;)

Angel