Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hard disk de-fragmenter
Message-ID: <25A6669C.1670@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 6 Jan 90 21:43:56 GMT
References: <90004.231733MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <90004.231733MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET> MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET (Mark Solsman) writes:
$I strongly disagree with the use of PCTools. One late night as my bbs ran its
$timed event, pctools decided to totally screw up the entire users-file. There
$was no apparent reason for this act, no breaks or power-inturrupts, and the dos
$err level was gnarley! If you value your disk's contents- just say no to PCTool

   I take it the BBS goes off-line while doing this ...

   I've never had a problem with PCTools Compress, personally.  But any
program that accesses the disk drive leaves open the possibility of damage.
If you're doing a disk defragment on a regular basis, you should probably
do your backup right before it (which, in case you hadn't noticed, Compress
recommends that you do, and probably so do other programs) so that if
the worst happens, you have a very recent backup from which to restore.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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