Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!ug.cs.dal.ca!morash From: morash@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Morash) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Looking for Disk defragmentizer for DOS 4.0 Message-ID: <1990Apr12.123449.4885@ug.cs.dal.ca> Date: 12 Apr 90 12:34:49 GMT References: <90097.004450GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> <1990Apr12.032230.12345@rducky.uucp> Reply-To: morash@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Dave Morash) Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 24 In article <1990Apr12.032230.12345@rducky.uucp> jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING) writes: >In article <90097.004450GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes: >> >> How about trying PCTools, any version. They have a very good compress >>program (a defragmenter, not the unix-style compress) that comes with the >>package. > >I personally would NOT recommend using PCTOOLS' defragger on DOS >= 4.0 >with > 32mb partitions. > >I have seen 2 disks lose their first FAT after a defrag. Fortunately we >were able to write a program to copy the 2nd FAT into the first to >recover the disks. > I also have had problems using PCTools' defragger (and one of the backup disks for my hd was bad, 2 sets of backups from now on!) using >32mb partitions. I would strongly recommend using =<32mb partitions. -- dalcs!dalcsug!morash@uunet.uu.net | dalcs!dalcsug!morash@watmath.waterloo.edu morash%dalcsug@dalcs.uucp | morash%dalcsug%dalcs@watmath.uucp morash%dalcsug%dalcs@uunet.uucp | morash@ug.cs.dal.ca