Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/29/04:27:43
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:
> >> >I just had a very nasty problem with Norton Utilities's Calibrate and lost
> >> >about half the files on my disk. I've never had any problem with Calibrate
> >> >before, and I'm wondering whether there's an incompatibility between
> >> >OpenDOS and Calibrate. This is just a guess, but you might keep it in mind
> >> >before running Calibrate.
> >
> >> Why don't you try DEFRAG?
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Anyway, DEFRAG works good. I threw out my Norton Utilities long ago.
> >
> >M$'s Defrag is, in fact, Norton's old 'speedisk'. If you pay attention
> >when you start defrag, it comes up and reports:
> > Copyright 1988 - 1993 Symantec Corporation
> >M$ has been licensing it from them for several years.
>
> This is besides the fact that Calibrate is not equal with SpeeDisk or
> Defrag; Calibrate performs a totally different feature. (what feature? I
> was never sure. The low-level format message that comes up at the
> beginning always scared me off. :)
Norton Calibrate is a low level format utility for older hard
disks. It is not a defragmentation tool. It is similar in
feature to SpinRite (I believe that Norton acquired SpinRite).
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