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Drive Optimizer:
This program will optimize floppy disks, hard disks, and ram disks
(i.e. RAD). It is designed to provide for the safest optimization of
your disks. It moves one disk block at a time to ensure this. So it
will be slower than other optimizers which usually move whole tracks
at a time. One Meg should take about six minutes to optimize on a
hard disk that uses a Supra WordSync. The program does multitask, but
do not use programs which will access the disk during the optimization
or its crash city.
As with any optimizer make sure that your disk has been
backed up recently in the event that something external happens such
as a power surge or earthquake. If anything does happen, just use
DiskDoctor to repair your disk.
Drive Optimizer is startable from the Workbench or from the CLI.
There are no CLI options.
The biggest thing the user will see is the block field. This will show
which blocks are free (blue), and used (black or white). A white pixel
denotes a block that is part of a continuous set of blocks. A black
pixel denotes a block that is not in sequence.
Below the block field are four statistics: Files and Blocks Left to move,
Percent Done, and Time Done. Before optimizing, the first two
statistics show the total number of files and directories, and blocks
used. During optimization, Time Done shows the expected time when
the program should be done.
Below the statistics are the four control gadgets. There is the START
gadget for starting the optimization. The SCAN gadget for collecting
information about where the files are. The DRIVE gadget for setting
which drive to optimize. Last is the CANCEL gadget for exiting or for
stoping the scan or optimization.
Before you can optimize, you must first scan your disk. The program
will not allow you to start if you don't. If you stop the optimization,
you can restart just by clicking on the START gadget unless you changed
the drive, rescanned, or exited.
After a successful optimization, the free blocks are zeroed to clean
up so that if you use diskdoctor latter on you will not have problems
such as blocks used more than once.
If you have questions or have a bug to report, my handle on PLINK is
Timeus.
This is a freeware program that may be freely distributed. It is not
to be sold, but can be placed on public-domain disks for distribution.
I take no responsibility for loss of data.