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Re: Defragmenter?? I can't defragment whith windows and norton defragmenters

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From: Jim Ross
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
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I won't recommend that.  You will get corruption if you do that.  I would
recommend with Win95, that you roll back the lonf file names, defrag, then
restore.  If you use doslfnbk, then those LFNs are still there and can cause
big screwups.  With a FAT16 NT disk, I wouldn't do anythink with a dos
defragmenter.  I say that because it appears NT does long file names
slightly different.  1.  If you see raw directory short names, they are
strange.  2.  doslfnbk can't do much here. 3. Even Win95 defraggers screw up
my NT stuff.  Any LFNs made with NT are different than those endings in
Win95.  So probably get a good Win95/NT defrag program.  BTW, they say NTFS
is faster and fragments less than a FAT16 drive.  Both are not true in my
opinion.  Jim


waytoogo wrote in message
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t>...
>If you realy want to use a dos defragger it can be done if you are not
>using fat32. you need a util called doslfnbk to back up all your long
>file names then restore them after you defrag. It can be done but why?
>windows defraggers work fine and you don't need to go through all
>that.
>
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From: "Jim Ross" <jktross@cw-f1.umd.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Defragmenter?? I can't defragment whith windows and norton defragmenters
Date: 1998/09/06
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