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- From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: ReOrg ever fatally messed up?
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- References: <1ic17lINNdik@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <dmkasten.04p0@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 09:40:42 EST
- Organization: No such thing as organization. Life is chaos!
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- In article <dmkasten.04p0@redorc.chi.il.us> 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.
- >>
- >> 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 why it would be best if he picked up ReOrg version 2.33. It works fine
- with my GVP contoller and Quantum drive.
-
- --
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