About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Defragmentation software, Disk partitioning software, Fsck, Norton Utilities, Photo recovery, List of disk partitioning software, Logical Disk Manager, SpinRite, List of backup software, Dd, Ranish Partition Manager, Comparison of online backup services, Data recovery, Disk Defragmenter, TestDisk, CHKDSK, Disk compression, PerfectDisk, Fdisk, Diskeeper, EnCase, Vopt, PhotoRec, GParted, KDE Partition Manager, List of defragmentation software, DiskTune, Disk Utility, Disk First Aid, GNU Parted, PartitionMagic, SpeedFan, CopyCatX, O&O Defrag, FileSalvage, Contig, List of disk imaging software, Double Tools for DoubleSpace, SeaTools, Defraggler, Diskpart, The Sleuth Kit, PageDefrag, PING, Smartmontools, Format, Quicksys Disk Defrag, FIPS, MyDefrag, SANS Investigative Forensics Toolkit, Cfdisk, List of data recovery software, QtParted, The Coroner's Toolkit, DiskSpeed32, SmartDrive, Ashampoo Magical Defrag, Slice, HD Tune, GetDataBack, Convert. Excerpt: Norton Utilities is a utility software suite designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. The current version 15 of Norton Utilities Premier Edition for Windows XP/Vista/7 was released December 27, 2010. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, in 1982. Release 2 came out about a year later, subsequent to the first hard drives for the IBM PC line. Peter Norton's company was sold to Symantec in 1990. However his name remains as a "brand" for Symantec's range of utility and security software for home users. The initial 1982 release supported DOS 1.x and featured the UNERASE utility. This allowed files to be undeleted by restoring the first letter of the directory entry (a feature of the FAT file system used in MS-DOS, albeit one that was not originally documented). The UNERASE utility was what launched NU...
