acs17111@uop.EDU (Mohd H. Misnan 'mid') (11/15/90)
I have a problem with Mace and Windows 3.0. I have made a swapfile in my hardrive so that Windows will take full advantage of it. But I encounter that when I want to unfragment my hard drive using Mace utilities, I will stuck at the swapfile area (Mace say that that area are locked) and it wont continue. My question is, should there any problem to unfragment my hard drive if I used permanent swapfile? And is there any programs that will not give a same problem as Mace does, any PD or commercial s/w? Thanks in advance... Hamid -- _______________________________________________________________________ | __ Mohd. H. Misnan | University Of The Pacific | | | \ Internet: hmisnan@madvax.uop.edu | Stockton, California | | \ \ acs17111@uop.uop.edu |-----------------------------| | |* \ ____________________________| Let there be from among you | | \__> | a community who calls to what is benifical, commands the | | | maa'ruf and forbids the munkar. They are the successful | | | (Al-Imran, 3:103) | |___________|__________________________________________________________|
rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola) (11/15/90)
In article <658639755.5443@zeus.uop.edu> acs17111@uop.EDU (Mohd H. Misnan 'mid') writes: >I have a problem with Mace and Windows 3.0. I have made a swapfile in my >hardrive so that Windows will take full advantage of it. But I encounter >that when I want to unfragment my hard drive using Mace utilities, I >will stuck at the swapfile area (Mace say that that area are locked) and >it wont continue. My question is, should there any problem to unfragment >my hard drive if I used permanent swapfile? And is there any programs >that will not give a same problem as Mace does, any PD or commercial >s/w? You can delete your file swap, unfragment, and then recreate the swapfile. Or you can use "Speed Disk" in the Norton Utilities. Raul A. Baragiola \Internet: raul@virginia.edu Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics \Phone: (804)-982-2907 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (11/16/90)
In article <658639755.5443@zeus.uop.edu> acs17111@uop.EDU (Mohd H. Misnan 'mid') writes: >I have a problem with Mace and Windows 3.0. I have made a swapfile in my >hardrive so that Windows will take full advantage of it. But I encounter >that when I want to unfragment my hard drive using Mace utilities, I >will stuck at the swapfile area (Mace say that that area are locked) and >it wont continue. My question is, should there any problem to unfragment >my hard drive if I used permanent swapfile? And is there any programs >that will not give a same problem as Mace does, any PD or commercial >s/w? >Thanks in advance... > >Hamid > Both Nortond Speed Disk, and Softlogic Solutions OPTIMIZE work fine. They show the file as being unmoveable, and just work around it. It worse comes to worse, you could delete the swap file, unfragment the disk, then make a new swapfile. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) (12/01/90)
In article <658639755.5443@zeus.uop.edu> acs17111@uop.EDU (Mohd H. Misnan 'mid') writes: >I have a problem with Mace and Windows 3.0. I have made a swapfile in my [stuff deleted] >my hard drive if I used permanent swapfile? And is there any programs >that will not give a same problem as Mace does, any PD or commercial >s/w? Hamid, I use a number of various different disk optimizers. The one that gives me absolutely no problems with Windows Swapfile is Norton Speed Disk (SD). You can buy it by getting Norton Utilities (I recommend Norton Advanced Utilities). I used to use Compress from Central Point Software (PC Tools), it is faster than SD, but I had some bad expriences with it recently, so switched to SD entirely. It is slower (if you do full optimization), but is very thorough, and it can be run automatically from a batch file. I have also Mace, and I would heartily recommend that you take a look at Norton Adv. Utilities. They are simply a better product for a serious user. SD will totally ignore (as it should) swapfile, and finish as if it never existed. How do you have your swapfile installed? In what area on the drive? (forgot to ask). Have you installed any software after installing swapfile on that logical drive? (Not a good idea). If so, you might remove your swapfile, optimize drive and then install it again (do you keep your data on a separate partition? -yes, yes-). \ Tony tporczyk@novell.com --Std.Disclaimer--