Disk Doctor & Speed Disk (scandisk and defrag) Alternatives?

[Redking]

I was thinking about installing Norton Utilities, but I dislike NU because they required the installation of "Norton LiveUpdate" and other components I don't need.

Now I'm in search of alternatives for Speed Disk and Disk Doctor. The default Win98 scandisk and defrag don't cut it. I've found that Vopt is a good alternative for defrag. But what about scandisk? I've thought about SpinRite 5.0 from www.grc.com, but it doesn't work on NTFS partions.

Any recommendations on good third-party scandisk software.

 

[Mday]

um, check out zdnet. or pcworld reviews of utilities packages and junk... they usually have reviews of the things we need to maintain our computers.

i use norton utilties. i disable all of what i don't want. basically, the only things that run from the suite are the ones i choose to run, MANUALLY!!!! i disabled all the other crap.

if you use NTFS, there are better solutions for enterprise and small business. Norton utilities is not really good enough for certain things.

 

[duragezic]

Unfortunately it installs the LiveUpdate but other than that just disable everything else. When I install norton 2k1, I unselected everything except Speed Disk, Disk Doctor, and Win Doctor (only useful ones IMO) and then the required files.