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- From: kruse@cs.ucf.edu (Holger Kruse )
- Subject: Re: ReOrg ever fatally messed up?
- Message-ID: <kruse.726843999@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system)
- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <1ic17lINNdik@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <dmkasten.04p0@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:06:39 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Right. This can be used with the Kick1.3-compatible ReOrg versions V1.x.
- For ReOrg 2.x (Kick2.x-compatible), there is an option in the "advanced
- options" window "simulate optimization only" that does the same job.
-
- >>
- >> 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
-
- >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..
-
- That's right. Earlier versions had some trouble with certain types of
- controllers. Please use V2.33 and make sure that ReOrg has sufficient
- stack (40000 bytes should be fine). Unfortunately some archives have been
- distributed with a wrong stack setting in the icon.
-
- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
- > |o| I think, therefore I Amiga. |=|
- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
- > | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
- > | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
- > +------------------------------+----------------------------+
-
- Holger Kruse
- kruse@eola.cs.ucf.edu
-
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