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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:54

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Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:

>From spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
>>The only other thing I can add to this discussion is to advise that you
>>run SCHECK and, if you have it, Norton Disk Doctor (or a similar program)
>>at every system boot (automatically, from AUTOEXEC.BAT of course).  And do
>>regular backups.  It pays to be careful.

>    What should we tell NDD to check for specificaly?

NDD actually just looks for problems on your disk; you don't tell it to
"look for" anything.

At any rate, running NDD /QUICK is identical to running CHKDSK/F, and
CHKDSK runs a lot faster.  I recommend the latter.

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Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:54:53 GMT
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