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- From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Stacker, Windows, Swapfile, & Defrag
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.143553.1016@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:35:53 GMT
- References: <a1aePB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
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- Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
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- In article <a1aePB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro) writes:
- >...
- >
- >Stacker's SDEFRAG utility will defragment the stacked drive, but will not
- >operate on the unstacked portion. Norton's SPEED DISK won't stop with the
- >small, unstacked portion of my hard drive and is a no-no with Stacker.
- >
- >So, my question is how can I defragment the files on the unstacked portion
- >of my hard drive only, and leave the stacked portion alone?
-
- The solution is to mark STACVOL.DSK (along with the DOS hidden system files)
- as an Unmovable File, then go ahead with optimizing the rest of the unstacked
- portion. I tried this over the weekend, and it appears to have worked.
-
- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPSS--University of Chicago
-