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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: January 15, 2006
- Total Downloads: 965,533
- Downloads last week: 9,533
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 132 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
You'd expect a program called SwissKnife to do all sorts of things, but this tiny application does only two: creating and quickly formatting disc partitions that can be read by Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. It can't resize, move, or even delete created partitions, nor can it work with partitions on the boot disc. It can, however, make FAT32 partitions larger than 32MB--something Windows 2000 and XP can't do. For swapping an external drive between platforms, CompuApps SwissKnife is just what you need. Otherwise, you'll probably do just as well with Windows Disk Management.Publisher's description
From CompuApps :If you are looking for an external hard disk drive that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS, and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife does it for you. You can create, delete partitions and format your IDE hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process. SwissKnife allows creation of FAT32 and NTFS partitions. FAT16 option is provided for compatibility. Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go, Firewire, and SATA interfaces. Create Fixed and Removable Disk Format types. Version 3.22 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 132 votes
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2 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: CompuApps SwissKnife V3 3.22
Pros: Workable on my PIII Win2000, setting up is a breeze, btw.
Cons: In XP MCE 2005, it only appeared the splash screen but didnt work at all... i using pentium D, tell me wat im going to do???
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: CompuApps SwissKnife V3 3.22
Pros: nowt...
Cons: Keeps telling me I have an operating system on the drive - there isn't - I would of remembered!!!
Seems to like crashing a lot though...
As a result it's pretty useless...
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: CompuApps SwissKnife V3 3.22
Cons: Could not get it to work. I guess it doesn't work in XP.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: CompuApps SwissKnife V3 3.22
Pros: I was looking for a thirdparty program to format my eksternal harddisk to FAT32, since PlayStation 3 only supports FAT32...
Swissknife did the job without any problems or advanced settings/options...
Cons: I have only tested it to format my eksternal drive to FAT32.
I did not notice any cons while using it......
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: CompuApps SwissKnife V3 3.22
"Simple, easy and fully funcional"
Pros: It do everything very quickly. It's crystal clear! It's a tool to have very near. You don't know when you are going to need it. It should be part of the OS
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