Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 04:23:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: "Jason M. Daniels" <bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Norte versus DEFRAG
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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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