Hello Brian Coe, at 11:29 AM 6/17/98 -0700 you wrote:

>>  As to my personal experience I do not see any real disadvantages, except
>>if you have Windows 95B+ or Windows 98, you are not able to get large disk
>>support (FAT-32). Otherwise it is the same in the long run.

>Well unless you need to access the data because the disk manager software
>failed. The only time I would use a disk manager is when I had absolutely
>no choice. I have done data recovery on disks that have had a disk manager
>on them and had a small glitch that turned into a major disaster because
>the end user didn't understand what a disk manager is and how it works. I
>am of the opinion why let software do what hardware can do. Get rid of the
>middle man! you can always take a hard drive to another PC if the
>controller card fails. Its rather difficult to make a drive function with a
>broken drive overlay it can be don but its not a simple thing to do.

  You have a point.  Although Disk Managers such as Ontrack's Disk Manager
and Drive Pro do have a tendency to break down and are hard to recover from.

  Then there is a Software from Microhouse called EZ-Drive.  EZ-Drive is an
excellent drive overlay program and hard drive setup utility.  This setup
is very easily to recover from and you can even make a emergency disk as well.

Have a good day,


Tim Lider
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