Chapter 7 - Disk, File System, and Backup Utilities

This chapter explains various disk utilities, file system utilities, and backup utilities and how to use them. It shows where to obtain the utilities and other sources of related information.

Other chapters in this part of the Windows NT Server Resource Guide also identify situations in which you should use the utilities (described in this chapter) and contain more information about them:

• Chapter 3, "Disk Management Basics."
• Chapter 5, "Preparing for and Performing Recovery."
• Chapter 6, "Troubleshooting Startup and Disk Problems."

The utilities described in this chapter are available from different sources.

The following utilities are on the Windows NT Server product CD. When you install Windows NT, they are installed in %systemroot%\System32. You must run all of these utilities from the command prompt. The Section column in the next table identifies the section in this chapter in which the utility is described.

The rest of the utilities described in this chapter are on the Windows NT Server Resource Kit CD. You can install the Resource Kit by double-clicking Setup.exe when you load the Resource Kit CD.

The Windows NT Resource Kit utilities are organized into subgroups, by functional area. Rktools.hlp contains information about each of the utilities on the resource kit. To find out which functional area contains which utilities, double-click Rktools.hlp and double-click each Tools group on the Contents screen.

When you install the Windows NT Resource Kit, Setup creates a Resource Kit program group that has Rktools.hlp and Readme.txt in it. It also creates a program group within the Resource Kit program group for each subgroup that you install. You can install only those subgroups that you want by doing a custom install.

To do a custom installation of the Resource Kit

1. Double-click Setup.exe at the root of the Windows NT Server Resource Kit CD.

2. Click the Custom button.

3. Check the group(s) that contains the utilities you want to install.

The following table contains information about each of the Resource Kit utilities described in this chapter. As in the previous table, the Section column identifies the section in this chapter in which the tool is described.