Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!sphinx!pre1
From: pre1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING! FASTBACK may corrupt your hard disk!
Message-ID: <2966@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 87 08:03:18 GMT
References: <703@vaxine.UUCP> <3225@bnrmtv.UUCP> <7024@sunybcs.UUCP> <1727@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Reply-To: pre1@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Grant Prellwitz)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
Lines: 46
Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse
Summary: Norton's Speed Disk (SD) can too!

In article <1727@rayssd.RAY.COM> wjr@rayssd.RAY.COM (William J. Ramey) writes:
-In article <7024@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) writes:
-> 	The October issue of Computer Shopper advices against
-> using the Norton Speed Disk haed disk unframenting utility.
-> It caused missing files and file damages in their test. So
-> this is another case of software doesn't do what is claimed.
-> 
-
-	I was amazed at the review by Computer Shopper and their advice
-against using the Speed Disk utility. I`ve been using "SD" for several
-months and have never had any problem with it. It looked like most of the
-problems encountered with using "SD" was associated with files that had
-some form of copy protection with it.
-
-??????
-
-Bill 

Well, a co-worker recently had his hard disk blown away by Norton's Speed Disk
program.  He was using the Advanced Edition on a Kaypro PC-30 (30 MB RLL).  None
of the directories had more than a few MB of data in them, but it may be
possible that one branch off root had that much when including all the subdirs.
Anyway, he called Norton and was told that they had experienced difficulty with
SD in some cases in which a single subdirectory contained more than ~16MB (I'm
quoting that figure from memory, don't risk your HD on it!).  They said that 
they would send out a replacement disk set (we haven't seen it yet, it's been 
about a week).  Since this time, I haven't used SD, though a number of the 
other programs are VERY worthwhile.  If you have Norton's Utilities (I know
advanced version, maybe others as well), I would strongly recommend that you
call Norton and get the information for yourself.  As I'm not the one who
originally called, this information is secondhand.  Better safe than sorry,
however.

			Grant Prellwitz
			Prellwitz Computing Services

Author takes full responsibility for this posting (but I'm not sure that I'm
the author).  I have no connection with Peter Norton Computing (though I am
a satisfied user of a number of their products).


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