#: 19641 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    23-Jan-94  11:19:21
Sb: #19639-OSK Disk DeFragmenter
Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203

 > Not to throw cold water on software...but isn't it just as easy to backup
 > (file by file) the HD to tape or another HD (you can get a HD for about
 > the same price as the software under discussion). BTW, I saw the program
 > MG is selling demo'ed at the Atlanta Fest and it appeared to be working
 > well and fast. I did try the one B&B sold for the Coco and all it did was
 > work for a long time and then crash my HD. Only tried it once .

You're "preaching to the choir", here Bob. :-)

Since I have a tape device AND a second hard drive on my MM/1a, I on occasion
do exactly what you suggest.

I personally have never really liked disk defragmenters. I bought Chris Burke's
File System Repack for the CoCo and never ran it to completion. The CoCo was
simply too slow, taking well overnight and into the next day to unfragment a
20M drive which wasn't all that fragmented. Think how long it would take on a
120M drive!!!

But I may go ahead and get a copy of the competitor to ARK's program,
Speeddisk, mainly since I have seen it in action and know of some of it's more
advanced features, such as intelligent placement of FD sectors, etc.

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 Zack C Sessions
 ColorSystems

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