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"Aaron" <chaaron@lave.net> wrote:

>>I'll try to explain it...temporary file creation and deletion,
>>naturally occurring...the growth of a swapfile beyond its set lower
>>limit, naturally occurring. Also, and this may be wrong, or at least
>>outdated...I THINK I recall that new file storage will possibly leave
>>alone open clusters from recently deleted files, as long as other
>>clusters are available...I may be off the mark on that. I'll admit to
>>having never taken a course in this stuff, having only done a lot of
>>reading and a bit of experimentation. I'm not at the moment a
>>professional in this field, but I've worked on a lot of computers for
>>friends and family, and also volunteered to help maintain the computer
>>system at the school my kids attend, and I do have some on-the-job
>>experience as well. It's entirely possible though, that I've picked up
>>a myth/fallacy or two along the way...one of the reasons why I'm here.
>>
>>Tom
>
>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.

Thanks...
>
>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.
>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.
>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.  But it might the next day after turning the
>system on.  Of course, it's hard to undelete files nowadays, since
>MS removed the UNDELETE.COM command from Windows.
>Stupid Recycle Bin.

Undelete was a very useful thing...too bad it's gone, but there are
other ways. By the way, do you know for sure if Disk Editor from
Norton 8 for DOS will work with a FAT32 disk in its maintenance mode.
That was a little used but VERY valuable tool. I suspect that it won't
work, but I haven't tried it.

Tom