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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pc disk optimizers
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Date: 2 Mar 88 19:48:45 GMT
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In article <4543@sigi.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@beagle (George Hartzell) writes:
>Does anyone out there have any opinions about programs that
>unfragment one's hard-disk?  Better yet, does anyone out there know
>of any pd. versions.  I would prefer to be able to get a copy from one
>of the archive servers to decrease the chance of trojans, but can be
>flexible.

A PD program called Reformat is available via ftp from Simtel20.  It
was originally submitted to the Info-IBMPC digest sometime ago.  I
believe there may be different versions for IBM-PC's and true compatables
and other generic MS-DOS machines, though I have only used the IBM
specific version.  Source code is in Turbo Pascal, with quite a bit
of inline assembler code.  You do need to deinstall copy protected
software before running, as Reformat is not smart enough to leave their
sectors alone (some other programs are that smart; since I hate copy
protected software and only rarely deal with it, this has not been a 
problem for me).

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu