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Re: hard disk de-fragmenter

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From: Bruce Cantie
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 14:08
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In article <90004.231733MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET> MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET (Mark Solsman) writes:
>I strongly disagree with the use of PCTools. One late night as my bbs ran its
>timed event, pctools decided to totally screw up the entire users-file. There
>was no apparent reason for this act, no breaks or power-inturrupts, and the dos
>err level was gnarley! If you value your disk's contents- just say no to PCTool
>
> However, I highly recommend the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.50
>                                 ^-------------------------------------^

	Will this also work for disks formated with 4.01?
	I know for a fact that PCTools will not, and the copy
	of Norton that we have will not do much for a 4.01 HD.
	We tried to rin Speed Disk on a PS/2 mod. 30-286 and it 
	would not even read the disk right.


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From: cantie@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Bruce Cantie)
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Subject: Re: hard disk de-fragmenter
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