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Central Point PC Tools
Name: Tedlrob Date: November 6, 2002 at 12:46:35 Pacific OS: XP and ME CPU/Ram: Pentium III
Comment:
I stopped purchasing PC Tools with 8.0 This stopped working with anything faster than a Pentium I. I would love to be be able to use PC Tools especially since most of my work is done in DOS (detest Windows -- greatest marketing fraud of all time). Is there a version which will work with Pentium III and XP or ME? Are additional patches reuired?
Name: Guti Date: November 7, 2002 at 01:39:09 Pacific
Reply:
PCTOOLS 9.0, and 9.0A (latest version) work in fast machines, but probably not under Windows because most of the included utils access directly to the disk, so a NTFS or FAT32 system would be incompatible.
Take a look at Norton Utilities 8 (Symantec bought Central Point). It has somme patches available from Symantec for making it work under FAT32 drives.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wengier Date: November 7, 2002 at 19:26:10 Pacific
Summary: Central Point PC Tools, yes. found some back-ups from a while back and am trying to use them on an old 386 machine running dos 6.22 and w4w 3.11. unfortunately the media labels are incorrect. ...
Summary: I was just browsing the message board and noticed some references to pc-tools. PC-tools was great, I loved it, used it until Ver 9, which I belive was the last release. To my knowledge Central Poin...
Summary: I'm trying to do a restor from pc tools 7.1 of an older dos system. When I run the restore and it asks for the first diskette, it says it's not a central point backup. Yet the files on the disk say ...
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