Diagnostic software recommendation

[cdz25]

I am still in the process of starting a computer repair business from home, and I would like to know what diagnostic software programs are the best to use for troubleshooting hardware and software problems on clients computers are? I would like something that will for example (boot dead systems,recover drives, repair partitions and mbr's,expose driver conflicts etc.)

[watzmann]

for recovering Hard Disk Drives, you'll find alot of them in the sites of the famous HDD manufacturers, like Western Digitall

[Kuasimodem]

AIDA32 is the ultimate information utility! It doesn't have to be installed on the system, you can burn the AIDA software to a CD, pop it into a customers system, run it, and know every piece of hardware and software in the system. It will even find product keys for most MS software and some other applications.

Powermax will give you all the diagnostic info on Maxtor hard drives, along with generating RMA codes for bad drives.

DataLifeguard Tools will diagnose, partition, format, and copy your old drive to your new WD drive.

Seagate's Seatools are 98% accurate (acording to them ) on Seagate drives.

DocMemory is a great memory testing utility that loads from a floppy, so there's no OS interference


Anybody else have some handy utilities to add?