#### GR Disk Utility for Windows Me/9x V.4.0 ####

Distribution Summary
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GRDuw400.zip, File Size: 434KB
Release Date: 11-10-2000
Categories: system utility, disk utility, system repair
Replace files: GRDuw318.zip, GRDuw31.zip

Review
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GRDuw is a Windows Me/9x disk utility that handle your removable and fixed drives. This user friendly disk utility let you format, duplicate and repair your disks. It support the MS-DMF format that Microsoft employ to distribute it's software on diskettes. The program has an optimized format procedure to give you a disk that read or write quicker on any drive. The disk duplication is a one pass procedure even on removable hard disk like the Iomega Zip100 or other similar drives. GRDuw let you known detailed information on your system disks and devices. The program comes with a setup program that allows you to install, evaluate and completely unistall the package leaving your system clean.

Description
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This Windows Me/9x disk utility (does not run under NT) allows you to Duplicate/Format/Compare/Repair your disks. It supports Microsoft Distribution Format (MS-DMF) floppies plus removable and fixed HD drives. The program has the following major features:

* Setup program for easy Install/Remove (also in batch).
* Command line options for disk duplication without user intervention.
* Support for 1.2Mb, 720Kb, 1.44Mb, 1.72Mb, MS-DMF (Microsoft Distribution Format), fixed and removable hard disk (like Iomega ZIP or similar).
* Duplicate your disks quickly while you do other jobs and skip the empty tracks to shorten the duplication time.
* Preview the diskette contents before you duplicate it.
* Create many copies of the same disk with only one disk read.
* Compare one disk to another or to an image file.
* Save/Load binary disk images for a later disk generation. Also you can assign a comment to every disk image for easy retrieval.
* Optimized disk format in order to speed up the read access by every application and drive.
* Format and Repair hard disks and floppies. The program is able to move the data clusters and mark the failed clusters as BAD on FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.
* Boot sector consistency check (verify some fixed fields) and re-creation capability (destroy your boot virus).
* Automatically associates the program with a .dim extension to be fully integrated with the explorer shell. Also allows you to create a desktop shortcut icon on which you can drop a disk  image file for a quick duplication.
* Display disk detailed information and system devices information and generate a report.
* Display disk fragmentation report.
* Language translation SDK available on request.

What's New
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* User interface re-styling.
* Support for FAT32 (format excluded).
* Fixed and enhanced the setup program.
* "Make disk bootable" format option added.
* More disk repair options.
* More detailed reports.

Known Problems
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As all the programs that overwork the system performances using the low-level interface, GRDuw does not correctly run on all hardware configurations. Great effort and care have been taken to make this version of the program reliable on all systems for the 1.68Mb and 1.72Mb formats. However there are some PC on which the program will not correctly work for these formats. To better track these problems the "System" dialog was added to collect the user installed hardware, BIOS version and Windows 98/95 version.
If you experience such problems, please email us a message to support@grsoftware.net with attached a copy of the report created from the "System" dialog. We do not promise to solve your problem but surely we will try to help you understand why your system does not work with GRDuw.
The LS-120 drive is currently supported only as 120Mb disk.

Evolution
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The program does not yet dupport format for FAT32 hd. We are working on this feature.
We are also working to make future versions of GRDuw running under Windows NT/2K.

Install
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A self installing executable file can be found inside a zip compressed archive in all major shareware archives or directly on our WEB site. You must unzip form the distribution archive to a temporary folder the file setup.exe and then run it. This program will copy all the needed files where you want and will register the program on your system.

Remove
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From the "Control Panel" - "Add/Remove Programs" you can quickly and completely remove the program from your system in keeping with the Windows standards.

License
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This is NOT FREE software.  This license allows you to use this software for evaluation purposes without any charge for a period of 30 days.  If you use this software after the 30 days evaluation period a registration is required (see the help file for details on how to).
I recommend that you register the program ONLY after you have full tested it on your system. This shareware version behaves exactly as the registered version.

Registration 
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This version is licensed at ONLY 39 US$ (site licenses 800 US$ and world-wide
licenses 2000 US$). Currently registered user may upgrade for ONLY 19 US$.
Accepted credit cards are: VISA, Master Card, American Express, Discovery
and Dinners Club. You can also register this product directly on the WEB: http://order.kagi.com/?LU&S with a secured transfer protocol, or by phone: 
+1 (510) 658-5244 or by FAX: +1 (510) 652-6589. For those interested in, 
the Kagi FEIN number is 943-281-839.
Please run the register.exe application, fill out the form in any part
and then follows the program instructions for delivery.
NOTE: registrations by e-mail will not be accepted if coming from 
anonymous e-mail addresses. 


Disclaimer of Warranty
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This software and the accompanying files are provided "as is" and without
warranties as to performance of merchant ability or any other warranties
whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware and
software environments into which this software may be put, no warranty of
fitness for a particular purpose is offered. Any liability of the seller
will be limited exclusively to product price refund.

Resellers
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Ask for our reseller contract: email to grsoftware@grsoftware.net.

Author information
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    Ing. Roberto Grassi
    GRSoftware
    P.O.BOX 48 Leumann, 10096 Torino, ITALY, EUROPE.
    Internet E-Mail  : support@grsoftware.net
    Internet WEB Site: http://www.grsoftware.net
