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From: depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit)
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Subject: Re: Disk deframgmentation software - recommendations wanted
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.192648.8135@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 8 Apr 91 19:26:48 GMT
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In article <1050@pallas.athenanet.com> kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:
>In article <10286@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
>>I need to defragment by disk -- ie, put all the little unused blocks
>
>I have used Norton's program and it works well but is VERY slow
>(it tends to move every block on the disk every time you run it).
>My personal preference is the COMPRESS program that comes with
>PC Tools.  I don't use all the "pieces" of the package but I think
>the parts I do use are well worth the approx. $80 price.

BARF! that norton speed disk is so brain-damaged I get sick every time I
watch it run.. You can tell that it takes files which are in the way and
writes them temporarily to the next consecutive free blocks on the disk,
and then puts the file it is working on where that old file was... But then
it gets to the SAME file it just moved before and places it just a little
further back on the disk AGAIN, and it sometimes takes the same file and
pushes it back a little at a time 10 TIMES in a session!!! And if you abort
in the middle and start it again, you KNOW that the portion of the disk
that was defragged before you aborted is still degragged, but what does
Norton's Speed DIsk do? it defraggs it AGAIN!!!! AAARRRGHHHH!!!

I saw it 3 years ago and noticed this, and then someone showed me a new
version of the software AND IT HASN'T CHANGED!! When are those norton guys
going to do something about it?

I wish I had the sourcecode so I could program an intelligent algorithm
into it. It'd even do it for free if the guys at norton would let me!!

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|S. Alan Ezust		: McGill University School of Computer Science      |
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