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sj_zero ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And as I recall, Norton had all the tools long before MS-DOS included them by default. It was sort of a dick move by Microsoft, the sort of thing they're famous for now.

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ksaj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Raise your hand if you used to sit and watch Norton’s defragger do its thing! 🤩

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Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
DOS has always? had chkdsk, but ndd had a knack for being able to recover data from minor corruptions way better than chkdsk did.

Between ndd, Spinrite, and I can’t remember the name of the undelete tools, I saved a lot of homework assignments.

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- sj_zero ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.
  - Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Indeed. It really was the end of an era when they went to shit.
    
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  - kalleboo@bitbang.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @sj_zero @retrocomputing 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
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