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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Mace Utilities and swapfile
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.201431.3093@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 20:14:31 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <658639755.5443@zeus.uop.edu> acs17111@uop.EDU (Mohd H. Misnan 'mid') writes:
>I have a problem with Mace and Windows 3.0. I have made a swapfile in my
>hardrive so that Windows will take full advantage of it. But I encounter
>that when I want to unfragment my hard drive using Mace utilities, I
>will stuck at the swapfile area (Mace say that that area are locked) and
>it wont continue. My question is, should there any problem to unfragment
>my hard drive if I used permanent swapfile? And is there any programs
>that will not give a same problem as Mace does, any PD or commercial
>s/w? 
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Hamid
>

Both Nortond Speed Disk, and Softlogic Solutions OPTIMIZE work fine. They show
the file as being unmoveable, and just work around it.

It worse comes to worse, you could delete the swap file, unfragment the disk,
then make a new swapfile.

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