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PCTools Disk Suite

A look at PC Tools Disk Suite

Overview

While your computer is a valuable piece of electronics, the real value lies within: your data. You can replace a fried computer but data is often irreplaceable, even with data recovery tools. Why take the chance? PC Tools Disk Suite provides you with a set of hard disk management tools to help keep your hard disk (and its data) in top condition.

Features

PC Tools Disk Suite is a suite of tools that optimize, defragment, backup and restore, diagnose and repair, and partition your hard drive in an easy-to-use graphical interface. Among the features offered are:

Cleaning and optimization - Improve disk and system performance by using the cleaning and optimization tools.
Disk defragger - Disk Suite includes a comprehensive disk defragmenter utility that offers a better way to defrag the hard drive. This frees up space, reorganizes fragmented files, and improves performance.
Diagnose and repair - Health monitoring and disk tools help to diagnose disk errors and repair them. You can even repair Master Boot Records on Windows 2000 and above operating systems.
Partition tools - Disk partitioning is much easier with Disk Suite. With this tool, you can easily create, resize, merge, split, format, and delete partitions.
Backup and restore - Use the backup tool to specify areas for backing up, verify past backups, and restoring data.

Benefits

Because data loss often occurs due to file corruption and hard drive errors, it makes sense to keep the hard drive in optimal condition. PC Tools Disk Suite does just that. By keeping the hard disk healthy and following a good backup and restore procedure, your data is better protected. Automation and schedules further ensure the health of your hard disk.

How it Works

PC Tools Disk Suite includes a task scheduler that you can use to schedule routine maintenance tasks. This frees you up from the chores required for keeping your hard drive healthy and ensures that your data’s integrity remains. The PC Tools Disk Suite product is currently offered in beta form with the final product expected to be a subscription based license.

Recommendations

Keeping your computer’s hard drive free of errors is an excellent way to prevent data loss. PC Tools Disk Suite provides you with automatic tools as well as a backup utility for further data protection. Since it is currently in beta format (as of November 2008), you can download it for free.

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PC Tools Disk Suite - A suite of tools for maintaining computers including data backups, disk partitioning, disk defragging, and disk optimization.