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Recovering lost clusters quickly

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From: Mark Rogers
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:13
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I'm looking for some software which can quickly fix lost clusters - 
preferably unattended. I have Norton Utilities, and obviously DOS's 
CHKDSK, but both are slow, which I assume is down to them checking more 
than I actually want them to check.

It's quite possible that all the extra file integrity checks are 
necessary to ensure that the lost clusters are recovered correctly, in 
which case I'll have to accept the solutions I already have. But I'm not 
convinced that this is the case.

[The reason I need this is that I am writing interrupt driven software 
in BP7's IDE; not surprisingly, during development this is prone to 
crashing. When it does so, it leaves a 2MB swap file on disk, which about 
50% of the time appears on rebooting as a zero length file, with the 
actual swap data as lost clusters. At 2MB a time it quickly eats up disk 
space, and when you are crashing/rebooting very frquently the time taken 
by reclaiming the lost clusters gets annoying. Of-course it would 
probably be better to get some more memory so that the IDE didn't need 
the swap file, but that is going to have to wait :(]

<Cross-posted to comp.archives.announce.d and my service provider's 
local group demon.tech.pc>

Mark.
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