Date: Wed, 28 May 97 08:25:59 MDT
Message-Id: <9705281425.AA15643@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Jason M. Daniels)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Norte versus DEFRAG
Reply-To: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu
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>> >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. :)


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