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Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message news:7pu79q$7gp$1@mochi.lava.net...
> Tom MacIntyre wrote
>> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
>>> Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote

>>>>>> If the large FAT32 20GB drive has all the files at the beginning of
>>>>>> the drive, within the first 5GB, and doesn't use the rest of the drive,

>>>>> Doesnt happen.

>>>> yes it does

>>> Have fun explaining the drive I've currently booted. The figures
>>> arent that far from those above, 12GB drive, 6.5GB free. The
>>> files arent anything like all up the front of the drive, the space
>>> between the first and last file is about 50% free space, with
>>> huge holes, much bigger than the biggest files on the drive.

>>> It was obviously in his scenario after the clean install, and its nothing
>>> like that now, so his claim is complete crap. Bugger all has been wiped
>>> from the drive since the clean install too. Never been defraged.

>> I'll try to explain it...

<rabbitting on about what wasnt being discussed flushed>

> Well Tom, for an uneducated guy, you seem to know a lot.
> And have a better grip on the situation that Rod Speed, who
> has claimed to have been in this stuff for 3 decades.

Neither of you can even manage to comprehend was was being discussed
there, that claim you made about "and doesn't use the rest of the drive"

> He says he has a drive with a "clean install" that has files all over the
> place.  He doesn't understand what a "clean install" leaves behind.

Sure do boy. Completely trivial to have a look just after having done one.

> A lot of files are copied to the disk during installation of Win98,
> and then deleted after install is finished.  Plus the swapfile could
> have been set very large for the install, and is now at it's default size.

Duh, and it doesnt end up anything like your silly claim right at the top.

> And YES files to tend to write to free areas of the disk
> that don't have recently deleted files on them, just incase
> you want to undelete the files. Even though you have the
> Recycle Bin, which keeps files from actually being deleted,
> if you empty it, the OS doesn't use that space right away.

So much for Hyper's mindlessly superficial
silly ascii pictures. As usual, just plain wrong.

> But it might the next day after turning the system on.

Wrong. Particularly with the situation being discussed,
a very large partition with lots of free space.

> Of course, it's hard to undelete files nowadays,
> since MS removed the UNDELETE.COM command
> from Windows. Stupid Recycle Bin.

Hari Krishna, Hari Hari Hari.