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Re: hard disk de-fragmenter

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From: Robert Hopgood
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 20:31
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In article <15502@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, cantie@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Bruce Cantie) writes:
>        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.
>
 
 
I use the PCTOOLS 5.1 compress utility with DOS 4.1 on a 386 machine and have
had no problems with it.
 
I have been told that Norton Utilities Advanced Edition is designed to work
with DOS 4.1 so you should have no trouble with either choice.
 
 
robert
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From: RHOPGOOD@ucs.UAlberta.CA (Robert Hopgood)
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Subject: Re: hard disk de-fragmenter
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Date: 8 Jan 90 20:31:17 GMT
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