jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) (01/29/89)
There are MANY of these Disk Organizers outer there.
Some of them are: DOG (Disk OrGanizer) -- public domain
DS Disk Orgranizer
Norton Utilities' Speed Disk
Central Point Software's PC-Tools' COMPRESS
and there are many others.
I personally have two recommendations,
1. Central Point Software's PC-Tools because these tools are a very nice
utility package to have. And COMPRESS works very quickly.
2. Norton Utilities' Advanced Edition.
Peter Norton's package has some useful utilities, although some are some-
what "useless" for everyday purposes. The disk organizer which comes
with the utility package is very time consuming. BUT, according to a
magazine article (I forgot which magazine) this was rated the BEST
ORGANIZER with respect to future possibility of fragmentations, it
organizes your .COM, .EXE, and any other file with Read/Only bit set
towards the beginning of the disk and data files to the end.
Note: PC-Tools' COMPRESS was one of the programs rated as the fastest.
From my personal experience, organizing a disk TOO often causes the drive to
age prematurely, so I recommend doing it occassionally.
And an addition piece of information. Some MS-DOS packages, suck as the one
that comes with Wyse computers, have a program (DISKPACK.COM) which will
organize hard drives.
I hope this information will help the fellow PC (and AT) users out there.
-- J. Chin (a.k.a. Computer Dr.)
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I have kind of a fundamental question about the efficiency of any kind of disk organizer. I do a full disk backup about once a month, and while I'm at it, I find it very convenient to do a simple high-level format and restore right then. I feel much more confident about creeping errors on the disk, and especially after running Norton's Speed Disk once and letting it run for hours, and finding garbled directory entries, I wouldn't think of doing anything else. I know this doesn't do the kinds of optimization like putting .coms and .exes near the front, etc., but aren't those relatively little gain for a lot of pain? -- O----------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .