spinrad@rigel.ucsb.edu (02/12/91)
I need a very, extremely, RELIABLE disk compactor utility. I recently got a new 386 system with an IDE controller and my old Norton Utilities speed disk doesn't work anymore. I'm also running Dos 4.0 with a 60+ MByte partition. I would like to find a public domain disk compactor, but I'm willing to pay $$ if that's the only way I can get a program that I can safely bet my hardrive on! Please respond either via email or to this news group. If there is a lot of interest, I'll summerize my results here. Many reliable thanks, Sandy -- Sandy Spinrad Internet: spinrad@cornu.ucsb.edu UUNET: uunet!hub.ucsb.edu!spinrad@cornu
mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) (02/13/91)
spinrad@rigel.ucsb.edu writes: >I need a very, extremely, RELIABLE disk compactor utility. I recently got >a new 386 system with an IDE controller and my old Norton Utilities speed >disk doesn't work anymore. I'm also running Dos 4.0 with a 60+ MByte >partition. I have an IDE (80Meg) drive that I use DOS4.01 with one big partition, and I own and use Norton Utilities 5.0 with great satisfaction. There is the Speed Disk (completely updated) and Calibrate, which is a disk test/enhancer that will test your sectors in varying degrees of intensity without loss of data. I have not had or heard of any adverse effects of using Norton Utils 5.0 on IDE drives. As for PD/Shareware, I have had a coupla bad experiences with defragmenters that were not commercial (i.e. PCTools, Norton) software, so I cannot recommend any, but rather recommend you approach them with CAUTION. Of course, make backups frequently and before using such software, commercial or not. -- oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Mark _E_ Amos University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu mea1@engr.uark.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo