• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    10 months ago

    chkdsk in dos never had the ability to scan the disk surface for defects, ndd did that, and then magically scandisk showed up and looked awfully similar to ndd.

    But I agree, some really great tools. And sysinfo was our de facto “how fast is this thing?” for years.

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      10 months ago

      Indeed. It really was the end of an era when they went to shit.

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      10 months ago

      Did anyone figure out if scandisk was actually licensed from someone else? I know that lots of the other MS utils were - defrag, undelete etc