| DISK MANAGER WINDOWS VS DISK MANAGER DOS COMPARISON |
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Disk Manager Windows V5.06
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Disk Manager DOS
V10.46 |
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| Supports all large drives – breaks the 137 GB BIOS barrier! |
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| Overcomes all capacity barriers (528MB, 2.1GB, 4.2GB, 8.4GB, 32GB, and 64GB) |
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| General Features and Benefits |
| Easily access online technical support resource for trouble-shooting |
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| Drive-To-Drive feature allows the user to copy from folder to folder or from partition to partition on FAT and NTFS partitions. |
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| Variable cluster sizes for FAT32 support helps increase storage capacity and efficiently use disk space |
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| Easy to use graphical interface has standard Microsoft® Windows look and feel |
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| Graphical advanced partitioning tool gives user ability to add or delete individual partitions |
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| Includes Ontrack® Data Advisor® - a self-booting disk diagnostic utility which assesses the health of your hard disk drive, identifying the cause of data loss problems |
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| Installation Process |
| Guides user through physical hookup of new drive |
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| Designed with graphics/pictures to make installation easier than ever |
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| Create and print Custom Installation Manual to ensure successful installation |
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| Custom graphical jumper settings diagrams provide correct settings for any configuration |
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| Operating System Support |
| Windows 2000, Windows XP |
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| Windows 98, Windows Millennium |
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| Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x |
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| File System Support |
| NTFS (Single volume only) |
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| 32 bit FAT, 16 bit FAT |
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| Drive Support |
| ATA/IDE/Serial ATA support |
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| SCSI support |
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| USB, FireWire support |
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| Support for 3rd party IDE controllers |
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| Fast installation (less than a minute) |
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1 Ontrack Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) overcomes INT13 system BIOS capacity limitations. However, Operating System specific drivers / patches may be needed for the Operating System to safely access the entire capacity of drives larger than 137 GB. Since Disk Manager for Windows can detect the necessary OS/driver level of support, it is recommended that Disk Manager for Windows be used to install drives larger that 137 GB
2 Disk Manager for DOS supports copying FAT partitions to FAT partitions, and NTFS partitions to NTFS partitions. Disk Manager for Windows provides these capabilities along with the ability to copy between FAT and NTFS partitions
3 Text-only print out, local printer only
4 Text and graphics print out, local and network printers supported
5 Supports SCSI only if SCSI controller card has INT13 support enabled on BIOS, drive model identification not available
6 Full SCSI rigid disk drive support including drive model identification
