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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: SUM: HD TuneUp
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Date: 14 Nov 88 19:12:27 GMT
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I just bought Symantec Utilities and was surprised that HD TuneUp, which
purports to defragment a disk only performs internal defragmentation.
The documentation is a little misleading (paraphrased from memory: 
"you will not need to backup your disk and then restore it").  However,
if you want, for example, to build partitions, you need to have a
large *contiguous* area, but HD TuneUp does not remove external
fragmentation.  So I guess I'll have to do another fullsave, then
build the partitions, and then restore the disk.  Unless someone
knows another way to remove external defragmentation...

Mark D. Nagel
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