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The Disk Jockey is a portable disk cloning tool that also lets you mirror, span, compare, test and erase IDE hard disk drives using either a Mac or a PC.
 

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The Disk Jockey is a portable disk cloning tool that also lets you mirror, span, compare, test and erase IDE hard disk drives using either a Mac or a PC.

Up until now, however, there has been a pretty signficant limitation for Mac users. If you copied a smaller drive to a larger drive, let's say a 20 GB drive to a 160 GB drive, you would only see the 20 GB drive on the 160 GB drive post-copy... you couldn't access the remaining 140 GB of space remaining on the larger drive. This was a Mac-only problem. On the PC you could rather easily re-assign the remaining 140 GB to a new partition.

Diskology's partnership with SubRosaSoft will bring a special version of SubRosaSoft's VolumeWorks V1.1 to Disk Jockey Macintosh user base. VolumeWorks solves a crucial problem previously facing Disk Jockey's Macintosh users where additional space left over after cloning a smaller hard disk drive onto a larger one was then unusable.

Previously, Macintosh users cloning a smaller IDE hard disk drive to a larger IDE hard disk drive were unable to recover the unused space. This functionality is built into the Windows OS severely limiting Diskology's Macintosh customer base to people interested in copying only to like-sized drives, or to users looking to take advantage of the Disk Jockey's remaining features including: mirroring, spanning, testing, comparing and erasing UDMA IDE hard disk drives.

Diskology has already drawn some interest in the Mac area by recently announcing that their own flagship software product, Disk Junk, will allow people to use the Disk Jockey to copy hard disk drives from their digital video recorders (DVRs) and then expand the new, larger drives to allow for more recording space on a Macintosh desktop or laptop computer.

This special version of VolumeWorks will be available online via the Diskology web store for $24.95 and will also be available as a bundle with Disk Jockey's purchased directly from Diskology, or via Diskology's many resellers. More information on the full version of VolumeWorks is available at the SubRosaSoft web page, www.subrosasoft.com . More information on the Disk Jockey or the special Disk Jockey version of VolumeWorks is available on the Diskology web page, www.diskology.com

The Disk Jockey is a Swiss Army Knife of a hard disk copy / backup / diagnostic too. The Disk Jockey mounts IDE hard disk drives via USB 2.0 and Firewire as well as mirrors, spans, copies, compares, tests and erases hard disk drives using either a 1-pass or a 3-pass erase per the National Security Administration (NSA) guidelines. Testimonials on how the Disk Jockey is being used by IT and MIS departments can be found on the Diskology website.

Diskology, Inc. is headquartered in Lincoln, California, and SubRosaSoft.com Ltd is a New Zealand based company specialized in privacy related and system utility software. SubRosaSoft Ltd previously announced VolumeWorks partition management tool which features a bootable Mac OS X CD option that supports the latest Macs, partition shifting for combining multiple free volume spaces into one, support for Diskology's Disk Jockey and a new user interface

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