"Arnold G. Gill" <GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (04/07/90)
How about trying PCTools, any version. They have a very good compress program (a defragmenter, not the unix-style compress) that comes with the package. ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | If I hadn't wanted it heard, | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | I wouldn't have said it. | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
herbing@netmbx.UUCP (Uwe Herbing) (04/09/90)
Hi there, try The Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.50 or PC Tools 6.0. Both packages are comercial and both have a Disk Optimizer and an Unerase program included. These packages contain some other nifty utilities as well. Greetings Kai
joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) (04/11/90)
In article <469@netmbx.UUCP> herbing@netmbx.UUCP (Uwe Herbing) writes: > >Hi there, > >try The Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.50 or PC Tools 6.0. >Both packages are comercial and both have a Disk Optimizer and >an Unerase program included. These packages contain some other >nifty utilities as well. > >Greetings Kai How about DOG.EXE. It's shareware, and available on just about every FTP site. It's fast, and safe. (Better diags than CHKDSK). I've had it on my HD's autoexec, and it never gave me a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jochen Fritz | For though we live in the world, we do not | | joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu | wage war as the world does.-- 2 Cor. 10:3 | | usergk2s@rpitsmts.bitnet| You have heard it said, Love your neighbor | | Noah [the peace monger] | and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love | | | your enemies. Matt. 5:43-44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING) (04/12/90)
In article <90097.004450GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes: > > How about trying PCTools, any version. They have a very good compress >program (a defragmenter, not the unix-style compress) that comes with the >package. I personally would NOT recommend using PCTOOLS' defragger on DOS >= 4.0 with > 32mb partitions. I have seen 2 disks lose their first FAT after a defrag. Fortunately we were able to write a program to copy the 2nd FAT into the first to recover the disks. jim -- Jim Pickering c/o Technical Solutions || (north) ..csustan!polyslo!rducky!jrp P.O. Box 1045 || (south) ..sdsu!polyslo!rducky!jrp Arroyo Grande, CA 93421 || (south) ..csun!polyslo!rducky!jrp (805) 473-1037 || (east) ..csufres!polyslo!rducky!jrp
jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING) (04/12/90)
In article <1990Apr12.032230.12345@rducky.uucp> jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING) writes: > >I have seen 2 disks lose their first FAT after a defrag. Fortunately we >were able to write a program to copy the 2nd FAT into the first to >recover the disks. > Hmmm...following up on my own post. What I would recommend is Norton's Utilities defragger. I have never seen it fail on any type of media, controller, partition size, or DOS version. It is rather slow though. jim -- Jim Pickering c/o Technical Solutions || (north) ..csustan!polyslo!rducky!jrp P.O. Box 1045 || (south) ..sdsu!polyslo!rducky!jrp Arroyo Grande, CA 93421 || (south) ..csun!polyslo!rducky!jrp (805) 473-1037 || (east) ..csufres!polyslo!rducky!jrp
morash@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Morash) (04/12/90)
In article <1990Apr12.032230.12345@rducky.uucp> jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING) writes: >In article <90097.004450GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes: >> >> How about trying PCTools, any version. They have a very good compress >>program (a defragmenter, not the unix-style compress) that comes with the >>package. > >I personally would NOT recommend using PCTOOLS' defragger on DOS >= 4.0 >with > 32mb partitions. > >I have seen 2 disks lose their first FAT after a defrag. Fortunately we >were able to write a program to copy the 2nd FAT into the first to >recover the disks. > I also have had problems using PCTools' defragger (and one of the backup disks for my hd was bad, 2 sets of backups from now on!) using >32mb partitions. I would strongly recommend using =<32mb partitions. -- dalcs!dalcsug!morash@uunet.uu.net | dalcs!dalcsug!morash@watmath.waterloo.edu morash%dalcsug@dalcs.uucp | morash%dalcsug%dalcs@watmath.uucp morash%dalcsug%dalcs@uunet.uucp | morash@ug.cs.dal.ca