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Article #40821Re: hard disk de-fragmenter
From: Bruce Cantie
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 14:08
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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