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From: nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Disk deframgmentation software - recommendations wanted
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.225655.3202@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 22:56:55 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:

>I need to defragment by disk -- ie, put all the little unused blocks
>next to one another, and put all of the little used blocks close
>together.  Simple stuff -- but what software is available?
>Freeware/shareware is good, if it's reliable, but commercial software
>is fine too.

I too, am interested in this, since there are about 5 billion shareware 
defraggers around, and don't have the time to sort through them.

VOPT was one of my favorites, but it only worked on 32Meg or less 
partitions. Does anybody know if there's an updated version around?

Incidentally, I have norton 4.5, and speed disk is way too smart ...
it takes about 10 times longer than vopt did, even in the "quick" mode.
Any suggestions?

Thanks.
nye