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- From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: ReOrg ever fatally messed up?
- References: <1ic17lINNdik@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>
- Message-ID: <dmkasten.04p0@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:09:37 CST
- Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network
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- In article <1ic17lINNdik@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>, cs_d604@ceres (David Scutt)
- writes:
- >shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >:
- >: Has anyone had ReOrg trash their HD? I can't afford a decent backup
- >: method for my HD, but it needs defragmenting.
- >:
- >: --
- >
- > I have used ReOrg on my nice 52MB HD, and had no problems. It has a
- >NOWRITE option (type Reorg -NOWRITE DH0:), which allows you to go through the
- >scanning and re-ordering without actually writing anything back to the disk.
- >This is the option to use to see if it causes any errors.
- >
- > It should be safe to use, as long as you don't get a power cut, or
- >interrupt it half-way through....
- >
- > As far as the Backup is concerned, what's wrong with AmigaDOS copy and
- >a good file archiver????
- >
- >Dave Scutt - cs_d604@ceres.king.ac.uk
-
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- An early version of ReOrg that I used BADLY screwed over my HD.. this was about
- 7-8 months ago.. Went like 15% through the defragmenting process and just
- decided it wanted to quit for some stupid reason.. botched every single file on
- disk..
-
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- |o| I think, therefore I Amiga. |=|
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- | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
- | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
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