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Started by Jason Dymond
Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:30
HD defragmenter ?
Author: Jason Dymond
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:30
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:30
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I am looking for a PD/Shareware HD defragmenter for the Mac which is System 7 friendly. Does anyone know where I might find such. I have been using SUM2, and have just found that it has been trashing my HD. If there is no PD.. software available, does anyone have recommendations re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ? Thanks Jason
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: MuffinHead
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 08:47
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 08:47
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jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes: >I am looking for a PD/Shareware HD defragmenter for the Mac which is >System 7 friendly. Does anyone know where I might find such. I have >been using SUM2, and have just found that it has been trashing my HD. >If there is no PD.. software available, does anyone have recommendations >re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ? Speed Disk. It's included in the Norton Utilities package. It's the best
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: Matthew Friedman
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 10:40
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 10:40
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smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes: >jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes: >>I am looking for a PD/Shareware HD defragmenter for the Mac which is >>System 7 friendly. > Speed Disk. It's included in the Norton Utilities package. It's the best ...but still has been know to trash disks (like mine!) Back up first or pay the price!!!
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: Edward Crawford
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:38
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:38
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In article <1992Oct7.084703.17875@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes: >jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes: > >>re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ? > > Speed Disk. It's included in the Norton Utilities package. It's the best Speed Disk sucks... Ive trashed my hard drive on several occassions with it. (The program crashed and i was running of the emergency disk like I was supposed to) Since Speed Disk doesnt have an;y real error checking my hard drive was trashed. Fortunatly Norton's hard drive recovery program works ok or i would have been really mad. 2.0 does not fix the problem, as a friend got it when he got his SyQuest, first time running, crashed and fried his hard drive. On the other hand, I whole heartedly recommend DiskExpress. Works flawlessly... And even if your hard drive crashes, no problems. Never, it cant.
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: John F. Woods
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 02:00
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 02:00
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In <1atll9INNpoa@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes: >I am looking for a PD/Shareware HD defragmenter for the Mac which is >System 7 friendly. Does anyone know where I might find such. I have >been using SUM2, and have just found that it has been trashing my HD. >If there is no PD.. software available, does anyone have recommendations >re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ? I don't know of any PD/SW defragmenters, but I want to second the recommendation of DiskExpress. There have been three cases where my Mac crashed in the middle of a compact operation; when I rebooted, DE told me what file it was working on and that that file just might be corrupt. It has yet to have actually corrupted a file for me, however. It's safe, AND effective.
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: Seth Van Buren
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:18
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:18
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edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes: >In article <1992Oct7.084703.17875@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes: >>jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes: >> >>>re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ? >> >> Speed Disk. It's included in the Norton Utilities package. It's the best >Speed Disk sucks... Ive trashed my hard drive on several occassions >with it. (The program crashed and i was running of the emergency disk >like I was supposed to) Since Speed Disk doesnt have an;y real error >checking my hard drive was trashed. Fortunatly Norton's hard drive >recovery program works ok or i would have been really mad. 2.0 does >not fix the problem, as a friend got it when he got his SyQuest, first >time running, crashed and fried his hard drive. >On the other hand, I whole heartedly recommend DiskExpress. Works >flawlessly... And even if your hard drive crashes, no problems. Never, >it cant. But, SyQuest drives do have some what of a reputation of not being reliable, and fring often!!! -- Seth van Buren INTERNET: svanbure@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au
Re: HD defragmenter ?
Author: Peter Cohen
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 03:38
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 03:38
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I've had very good luck with FileKnit from MicroCom. My company (FOCUS Enhancements) ships it as part of a licensed software collection on it's hard drive products. I guess it's available in stores. Peter -- +-----------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Peter A. Cohen | No, I don't reflect my employer's opinions. | | peterco@eff.org | Heck! My employer doesn't even know I'm here! | +-----------------+------------------------------------------------+
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