spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) (09/13/90)
In article <49394@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> tonyb@olivej.olivetti.com (Anthony M. Brich) writes: >A colleague is in the habit of unfragmenting hard disks from a DOS >window, using Norton Utilities' Speed Disk. Seems to work okay, >though I must admit I was a little skepical. Are we running any great >risks with this technique? Yes. This is an extremely bad practice and could cause serious data loss, up to and including trashing the FAT. I am surprised it has not yet done so. Joel Spolsky spolsky@cs.yale.edu Silence = Death