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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: B.A.D on HD
Keywords: amiga, harddrive, fragmentation
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.023315.26560@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 27 Mar 91 02:33:15 GMT
References: <447@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <447@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>Hi there
>
>I recently tried to run B.A.D. (version 3.15, I beleive) on my 20Mb hard drive.
>It took about an hour, after which the drive would not validate, and any attempt
>to write on it caused a guru.....
>
>Has anyone out there got B.A.D to work on a HD??? What other disk optimizers are
>out there for HD's???
>
>				Murray Chapman

After my experience with this program I vowed never to use it again, as
well as warning other Amiga users about it.

The one to use for optimizing is Quarterback Tools, it performs miracles
to Fragmented Hard Disks. The latest version is 1.3d and support from
Central Coast Software is excellent.

matt.