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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Defragging a disk via Save and Restore
Keywords: fragmentation
Message-ID: <8251@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 23:09:05 GMT
References: <15947@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <15947@shlump.nac.dec.com> heintze@fmcsse.enet.dec.com (Siegfried Heintze) writes:
>I see that the version of Norton Utilities that contains SD (speed disk) - a
>defragger -
>costs about $119.   Could I save some money by using FASTBACK to save my entire
>disk,
>delete everything and then restore from my backup on floppies?  

It won't do as good a job because the directories will be spread across the
surface, and will tend to be fragmented as well.

(One alternative to Norton Utilities is PCTools Deluxe which has a much
faster defragmenter, backup/restore almost as good as FASTBACK, disk caching,
disk utilities, file viewers etc all for less than Norton Utilities)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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