You're right, Control Panels weren't treated as mini-applications until System 7.
The nice thing about Mt. Everything is that, besides being able to use the driver installed on disk (like any other SCSI-mounting utility), it can use its own driver, leaving the disk untouched -- pretty slow, but very safe; claimed to be able to rescue data from failing disks!
I don't have any experience with HDT... maybe it's installed in the HD of some recent purchases, I'll check in case I could give it a try. My first third-party formatting software (came with a Fujitsu MO drive) was FormatterFive, and it was extremely buggy xx( That experience biased me towards Apple utilities; despite their quirks, they have worked well for me.
The nice thing about Mt. Everything is that, besides being able to use the driver installed on disk (like any other SCSI-mounting utility), it can use its own driver, leaving the disk untouched -- pretty slow, but very safe; claimed to be able to rescue data from failing disks!
I don't have any experience with HDT... maybe it's installed in the HD of some recent purchases, I'll check in case I could give it a try. My first third-party formatting software (came with a Fujitsu MO drive) was FormatterFive, and it was extremely buggy xx( That experience biased me towards Apple utilities; despite their quirks, they have worked well for me.