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From: Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Crash
Message-ID: <8808@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Sep 88 01:56:39 GMT
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> "If it works like I think it does..."
It doesn't.  It can handle anything but nearly completely full disks (I set
a limit of 8K free space minimum when it will inform you that it can't
optimize).  I had no trouble with a 2.5 MEGABYTE file with only 250K left
on the partition.  It also rearranges the directories and sets up files
for PC Ditto bootability (without using the MS-DOS format command).
Hard Disk Sentry was designed to handle nearly everything, and on the things
it couldn't, to not lose any data.  Large files aren't a problem.  Even
fairly full partitions aren't, as long as there is some free space (and
moving one file is usually enough to create adequate space).  It isn't
blindingly fast, especially with little freespace to play with (since it
is copying every byte on the hard disk twice, and adjusting directories
and FAT's as it goes - a *lot* of thrashing), but that is because I chose
safety and functionality over speed.