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Article: Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0 : Formatter-driver package improved but far from perfect.(FWB Software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Even though Apple's own Drive Setup software originally formatted your Mac's internal drive, the formatter is unlikely to recognize any hard disks you add; it's very picky about which drives it works with. One solution is FWB Software's Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0.1, a collection of disk-driver tools that support hardware from third parties as well as from Apple. This update improves performance and integrates FWB's RAID ToolKit, but the fundamental flaws remain: some features and functions are still hard to find, and the package could be more cohesive.
As in previous incarnations of Hard Disk ToolKit, the core application formats and partitions drives, installs ...