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From: lisbon@vpnet.UUCP (Gerry Swetsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: De-fragmentizer non-disaster
Keywords: vopt fragmentizer
Message-ID: <[250ac239:1551]comp.sys.ibm.pc@vpnet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 03:00:08 GMT
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Maybe I've not kept touch with de-fragmentizer technology.

The last I remember, if you had a power outage while running such a
program, you could *definitely* kiss your data good-bye.

Anyhow, last Thursday at work I decided to give my XT at work the once
over with Golden Bow's Vopt program.  It wasn't seriously fragmentized,
I just didn't have anything to do and was getting bored.  Well, you
guessed it; right in the middle of the program execution, the whole
building went black.  I waited for half an hour and when the power
didn't come back on I went home, remembering what was on my disk, and 
feeling certain I'd never see it again.

Well, when I powered the XT up Friday morning, it was as if nothing had
happened!  All the data was there, just as it was Thursday before the
power outage.  I ran Norton's Disktest on it as well as Chkdsk and 
found zero problems.

Just thought you'd like to know.  Apparently these programs are mucho
better than they used to be; else I was a lucky camper.  In either
case...

Thanks, Golden Bow!

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