GAG allows you to boot up from a choice of 9 different operating systems. It can boot operating systems installed in primary and extended partitions on any available hard disk.

It doesn't need its own partition. It installs itself in the first track of the hard disk, which is reserved for this type of program. It has a timer to boot a default operating system (selectable by the user).

Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have installed more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk. Can exchange disk drives, allowing to boot from the second, third... hard disk operating systems such as MS-DOS. Supports a great variety of keyboards (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and DVORAK keyboards). Full support for hard disks up to 4 terabytes (4096 gigabytes).

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PC Tools Disk Suite attempts to cover all possible angles when it comes to hard drive management.

PC Tools Disk Suite offers all in one hard drive management that integrates disk optimization, a cleanup tool, a defrag utility and even a partitioning and backup tool in one well presented and easy to use pack. Like most PC Tools products, the interface is the same as used across the entire line of products and clearly presents the options available to you.

As is to be expected, the cleanup and optimize feature of PC Tools Disk Suite aims to reduce unnecessary files and indicates how much free disk space it's recovered for you at any one time. The defrag tool reorganizes files on your disk and should speed up your system and it supports both FAT and NTFS drives. It's nice that you can select whether to defrag quickly or slowly in PC Tools Disk Suite although the fast defrag doesn't seem to make much difference at all. On the other hand, the long defrag does take a while and you¡'d be best to use it overnight.

The PC Tools Disk Suite Backup feature allows you select which files you want to backup regularly either manually or via scheduler and finally the Partition feature allows you to create, merge, split, resize, delete, copy, and move partitions. However, you'd be highly advised to backup all your data using the total backup option on PC Tools Disk Suite as disk partitions can result in lost or corrupted data very easily if you don't know what you are doing.

PC Tools Disk Suite is an incredibly comprehensive suite that covers all the major areas you need to keep your PC in tip top condition.

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If you're working on a FAT drive and have either accidentally deleted or lost data, then Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery might be able to help.

You can use Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery software to recover data from FAT16, FAT32, drives as well as recovery from the FAT partitions created on any other OS supporting FAT file system. Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery uses a very simple wizard to take you through the recovery process so there's no danger of doing something you might regret - like format your drive accidentally or something.

Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery is therefore simple enough for beginners and those without any technical know-how to use. Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery is compatible with most major hard drive types including IDE/AT, SATA, SCSI and USB Flash Drives. It's particularly useful for those that have missing or lost data due to a failed partition or from a drive that hasn't been formatted properly.

Disk Doctors FAT Data Recovery is a simple and easy solution for anyone that has had the worst happen to them while using a FAT drive.

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Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery can instantly recover deleted files emptied from the Recycle Bin or that have been lost due to accidental formatting or re-partitioning of a hard drive.

Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery can also help in the case of viruses, and unexpected system or software malfunctions. Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery is designed with beginners in mind so there's some useful tips and hints to get you started although there's nothing complicated about it anyway. Simply browse to the drive or folders that have been affected and let Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery scan to see what it can recover.

Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery is a simple but effective solution for anyone that's lost data in a folder or drive and doesn't know which type of drive they are using or doesn't know where to start with file recovery.

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We all know that computers are not infallible and that disaster can strike at any time. Programs such as Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery are designed to help limit the damage to your productivity.

Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery lets you recover data from NTFS, NTFS5, drives and also boasts support for recovering data from dynamic drives created on NT/2000/XP/2003 platforms. So if you've accidentally deleted files or folders you need, formatted a drive by mistake, have corrupted partition tables, or if you've managed to delete partitions, Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery will chase away your nightmares.

Using Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery is surprisingly straightforward thanks to its wizard-based user interface. You're given a series of options to either Recover your data, Recover data from a disk image, Clone a disk, or create a new disk image. With all of these Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery guides you through the recovery process step-by-step, so you can operate it without any in-depth knowledge of disk drives.

As you might have guessed from the name, unfortunately Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery only recovers NTFS data, so you'll need a separate application if you want to restore data from a FAT drive. Nevertheless, the inclusion of a File Tracer tool to hunt for specific missing files, makes Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use NTFS recovery apps around.

If you've suffered the agony of losing data then Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery is a wise choice to relieve your worries.

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HDClone copies the entire contents of hard disks and other IDE/ATA, SATA/eSATA, SCSI, USB, and Firewire media on a physical level.

This even allows for the smooth creation of backups or copies of complete operating system installations. In combination with the special 'SafeRescue' mode of HDClone, this technique is also perfect for rescuing data in case of defective hard disks.

Furthermore, HDClone works independent of a partition layout, file system and operating system (i.e. it works with FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc.). Thus, it also works with proprietary data formats which could not be accessed otherwise. Besides copying complete drives, it is also possible to apply it to certain partitions only.

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It has happened to us all. We've lost or deleted a file at some stage that was really important. Of course, nowadays, with so many external backup options there is less chance it's going to happen but if it does, there is still hope. R-Studio Data Recovery, although sounding like a music program, actually helps you recover lost or accidentally deleted files. It's not a sure-fire solution but it can help depending on the type of file you've deleted.

When R-Studio Demo version has found a lost file larger than 64KB you may simply double click the file to preview it. However, in this demo version, if you want to open it you'll need to register the software to obtain the R-Studio registration key. However, if you have enough disk space on any additional hard drive or on an alternative media the developers recommend that you create an image of the recognized partition where the lost files were found, because Windows OS constantly writes some information on disks and there is a risk that the sectors where the deleted files reside may be overwritten. According to them, "If that happens, the files still may be found, but may contain incorrect data or cannot be found at all." They assure however that the created image can be processed the same way as the original partition. The program supports a wide range of drives including dynamic disk and RAID drives. It's also able to recover encrypted and compressed files so if your lost file was zipped-up, there's still a chance you can recover it. For those who know how to edit MFT file records and MBR/LDM structures, they can be viewed and edited in the program's accompanying disk hex editor.

The program makers do issue one serious word of warning however - never try to write the image file or recovered deleted files to the same disk where the files reside or you may lose the data on your disk.

R-Studio can't guarantee to rescue all files but it's definitely worth a shot if the worst has happened.

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Disk Password Protection is complex protection for your computer, disks, partitions and confidential information against unauthorized access. Protect your disks and partitions with a password, hide and protect your information from other people, restrict viewing and launching files. Protect starting operating systems on your computer with a password.

It is low-level protection. It works directly with the disk and does not depend on any operating systems, programs or other equipment. Passwords are encrypted and stored in the protected areas of the disk. Owing to this, the protection will work on any computer and can be controlled from any computer.

Disk Password Protection allows you to select the type of protection that best meets your requirements. Having an original, simple interface and a step-by-step wizard, the program allows users of any level to work with protection.

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It's a little known fact that deleting files or formatting your hard drive doesn't actually remove the data from your PC. This can leave you vulnerable to attacks from hackers and identity thieves looking for credit card numbers, bank account statements, passwords, and other personal information that still resides on your drive.

Recent studies show that 74% of hard drives sold or given away contain data that can be easily read and recovered - and 36% of those hard drives had even been reformatted.* Avoid this danger by permanently wiping your hard drive using DriveScrubber to ensure that sensitive information cannot be recovered.

Features:

• Permanently erases all traces of data from your hard drive
• Restores your hard drive to its original condition, just like it was new
• Eliminates all remnants of even the most stubborn viruses and spyware
• Includes bootable CD-ROM and floppy disk creator for full-drive wipes
• Drive security analysis displays a graphical representation of your drives' current risk levels
• Offers a wide range of advanced wiping options and techniques
• Easy-to-use interface
• Support for multiple hard drives and partitions
• Unlimited email, phone, and web support
• For up to three PCs

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Image for Windows is an affordable, reliable drive image backup and restore utility that creates and restores snapshot images of entire partitions or volumes. The backups can be saved to a set of files on a local or network drive, or directly to most CD or DVD drives (which will create a bootable restore disc). When needed, you can simply restore the snapshot image and the partition or volume will be back as it was before.

Using the free PHYLock add-on utility, you can continue to use your computer while the backup is locked to a point-in-time. This eliminates the inconsistencies typically experienced while backing up a partition that is in use.

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MacDrive has long been the standard for Windows users to easily and seamlessly open, edit and save files from Mac-formatted disks, but now we are taking things a step further. MacDrive 6 for Windows enables PC users to open, edit, and save files on Mac disks (HFS/HFS+). You can even format Mac disks and burn Mac CDs and DVDs.

MacDrive 6 also expands on the ability to format Mac disks (HFS/HFS+) by enabling you to partition your hard drives with the MacDrive Disk Manager. What's more, MacDrive protects your partitions from harm by Windows disk tools and warns you if your drives were not properly shut down.

Along with the ability to burn and partition, all the power MacDrive has added to your Windows PC is even better in MacDrive 6. We have dramatically increased the speed when dealing with large files sets, we have improved and simplified the control panel and we have expanded support for various Mac files types.

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VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise.

VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines — no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.

VMware Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting device support from the host.

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows XP
• Windows 98
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows .NET Server Beta
• Windows Me
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.1
• MS-DOS 6

Versions of Linux:

• Red Hat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• Mandrake-Linux
• Caldera Open Linux

Related Links:

• You will need the evaluation serial number to use the trial.
• User manual

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Virtual Machines are a handy way to avoid having to install real software on your PV that could damage or potentially affect the performance of your system.

VMware Player can be used by anyone to run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC enabling you to run a virtual machine shared by a colleague or friend. This can be useful if you need to to provide customer support or simulate a particular problem among several PC's at the same time. It's therefore an extremely secure way to test or run through scenarios that perhaps normally, you'd never dare do. This player allows you to use any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disks. In addition, this means that you can use 32- and 64-bit Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 operating systems without rebooting or having to partition your hard drive. For anyone who doesn't want to lose valuable disk space to a second operating system, or jus doesn't know how to partition their drive, this is an excellent alternative.

A simple and secure way of testing software on your PC, VMware Player offers peace of mind and a straightforward way of running multiple operating systems.

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If you've ever suffered from data loss or are upgrading your hard drive, then you need someway to backup and protect your data.

EaseUs Disk Copy is a useful tool for all those that need to backup, clone, or upgrade their small hard drive to something bigger or simply copy the contents of your hard drive. The Copy utility allows you to create images of huge hard drives by slowly scanning it and looking for potential read errors. This process takes quite a while because it has to inspect your drive in great detail so make sure you've got plenty of time spare or leave it running overnight. The program will warn you when it detects potential read errors that could start to damage Windows in the long term. You can perform various types of copy - copy all of your hard drive, a partition clone or a a sector by sector copy. The program has been recently updated to support the latest drives including IDE, SATAI, SATAII, SCSI, Firewire(IEEE1394) and USB drives, dynamic disks and it can help you with boot problems by showing you how to boot from a CD ROM. The GUI is very easy to use although as mentioned, it can be very slow at scanning and copying but at least you know it's doing a thorough job.

A useful backup and copy solution that's easy to use although not the fastest utility on the market.

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Have you ever suffered from data loss because your server just can't handle the amount of data that's been placed on it?

If so, server crashes can be absolutely devastating wiping out tons of data and leaving users stranded. Of course, the best solution is to ensure that you have regularly backed up your server hard drive but if you haven't, then Stellar Phoenix enables you to access data when the server volume(s) cannot be mounted. Phoenix - Novell Data Recovery Software can recover Data to another drive in the case of corrupt volume(s), missing volumes, deleted files, allocation errors & partition loss. It's designed to deal with losses to all Novell Storage Systems specifically NetWare Traditional File System (NWFS). The interface is based on Windows Explorer and basically requires browsing to the volume that you want to expect much as you would with any Windows application. To recover data from a drive containing deleted file or folder click the 'Select NetWare Partition' button on the Icon Toolbar and select the partition that contains the volume from which data has to be recovered. Then simply select the volume containing the deleted file and folder and Phoenix scans the folders for problems. You're then presented with a list of those files and folders that are recoverable.

Fast acting and designed for the huge quantities of data that servers can hold, Stellar Phoenix Novell can recover the files that other utilities can't reach.

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Have you ever suffered from data loss because your server just can't handle the amount of data that's been placed on it?

If so, server crashes can be absolutely devastating wiping out tons of data and leaving users stranded. Of course, the best solution is to ensure that you have regularly backed up your server hard drive but if you haven't, then Stellar Phoenix enables you to access data when the server volume(s) cannot be mounted.

Phoenix - Novell Data Recovery Software can recover Data to another drive in the case of corrupt volume(s), missing volumes, deleted files, allocation errors & partition loss. It's designed to deal with losses to all Novell Storage Systems including Novell Storage System (NSS) and NetWare Traditional File System (NWFS).

The interface is based on Windows Explorer and basically requires browsing to the volume that you want to expect much as you would with any Windows application. To recover data from a drive containing deleted file or folder click the 'Select NetWare Partition' button on the Icon Toolbar and select the partition that contains the volume from which data has to be recovered. Then simply select the volume containing the deleted file and folder and Phoenix scans the folders for problems. You're then presented with a list of those files and folders that are recoverable.

Fast acting and designed for the huge quantities of data that servers can hold, Stellar Phoenix Novell can recover the files that other utilities can't reach.

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Losing data is one of the worst things that can happen to you especially if you haven't used a backup solution.

Stellar Phoenix Linux is a fully automatic Linux data recovery software for Ext2, Ext3 and Reiser FS file system volumes. It's designed to deal with the particular needs of Linux users which differ than those of Windows users - e.g. you're far less likely to need it for virus attacks or security breaches like Windows users often suffer.

The program automatically recognizes lost partitions, volumes, files and folders on IDE/EIDE/ATA & SCSI hard drive media. It works with most major Linux releases including Red Hat, Suse, Caldera, SCO, Debian, Mandrake, Sorcerer, TurboLinux, Slackware, Gentoo and more. If you've had a partition deleted, it also allows you to recover data from damaged or partially deleted sectors.

Although the interface differs from the Windows GUI version somewhat, it's still extremely easy to use. You are provided with advanced File Mask options according to file name, size and date and any scanning process can be halted at any time to view the results and the log generated can be saved as a file. Although it claims to be able to recover large fragmented files, user opinions differ to how far this definition of big goes - anything bigger than a GB or so and you may be out of luck but it's worth a try nevertheless.

With very few Linux data recovery solutions out there, this utility is certainly worth a try for anyone who has suffered the worst.

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Losing data is one of the worst things that can happen to you especially if you haven't used a backup solution.

Help is at hand however with Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery, a complete data recovery solution that helps you to search, locate and recover lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted data. It's aimed at those unfortunate users who have lost data due to accidental reformatting, virus attacks, software errors and unexpected shutdowns. It's also been designed with ease of use in mind - the software has a very simple GUI that includes a find file option, file mask and file filter so that you can target specific file types. It's also pretty useful if you want to partition your drive to install alternative operating systems.

The program works courtesy of a ‘Raw File Recovery’ feature that can recognizes & recovers more than 300 file types including documents, spreadsheets, web content & images. However, this doesn't mean it will always recognise the files that you are looking for because if they've been corrupted, the structure or format may also have been changed.

Nevertheless, if you've lost data then you've got little to lose by running this although it doesn't detect everything that's been lost or corrupted.

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Losing data is one of the worst things that can happen to you especially if you haven't used a backup solution.

Help is at hand however with Stellar Phoenix FAT Data Recovery is a complete data recovery solution that helps you to search, locate and recover lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted data on FAT drives. It's aimed at those unfortunate users who have lost data due to accidental reformatting, virus attacks, software errors and unexpected shutdowns.

However, this particular version is only for those with FAT formatted drives - if you're not sure what type of drive you have then right click on your hard drive and select "properties" to see whether you're using a FAT formatted drive. Most Windows users are now on NTFS which is considerably quicker and doesn't fragment as much although older systems, such as those using Windows 2000.

The program has been designed with ease of use in mind - the software has a very simple GUI that includes a find file option, file mask and file filter so that you can target specific file types. It's also pretty useful if you want to partition your drive to install alternative operating systems.

The program works courtesy of a ‘Raw File Recovery’ feature that can recognizes & recovers more than 300 file types including documents, spreadsheets, web content & images. However, this doesn't mean it will always recognise the files that you are looking for because if they've been corrupted, the structure or format may also have been changed.

Nevertheless, if you've lost data on a FAT drive then you've got little to lose by running this although it doesn't detect everything that's been lost or corrupted.

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Losing data is one of the worst things that can happen to you especially if you haven't used a backup solution.

Help is at hand however with Stellar Phoenix NTFS Data Recovery is a complete data recovery solution that helps you to search, locate and recover lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted data on FAT drives. It's aimed at those unfortunate users who have lost data due to accidental reformatting, virus attacks, software errors and unexpected shutdowns.

However, this particular version is only for those with NTFS formatted drives - if you're not sure what type of drive you have then right click on your hard drive and select "properties" to see whether you're using an NTFS drive. Most Windows users are now on NTFS which is considerably quicker and doesn't fragment as much although older systems, such as those using Windows 2000.

The program has been designed with ease of use in mind - the software has a very simple GUI that includes a find file option, file mask and file filter so that you can target specific file types. It's also pretty useful if you want to partition your drive to install alternative operating systems.

The program works courtesy of a 'Raw File Recovery' feature that can recognizes & recovers more than 300 file types including documents, spreadsheets, web content & images. However, this doesn't mean it will always recognise the files that you are looking for because if they've been corrupted, the structure or format may also have been changed.

Nevertheless, if you've lost data on an NTFS drive then you've got little to lose by running this although it doesn't detect everything that's been lost or corrupted.

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