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re: Defraging with Me tool
Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:44 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3939 messages posted)



[...]if you are defragging a desktop and there's a power failure[,]
you may trash either your system or some valuable data.
   MartinM

It's a possibility--but a distant one:
The data is **copied** to the new location first, THEN the FAT is updated.
If something goes screwy before the last step,
the old data remains at its original location
and the old FAT entry still points to it.




Written in response to:
re: Defraging with Me tool (MartinM: Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 2:36 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Defraging with Me tool (MartinM: Monday, December 31, 2007 at 2:56 am)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (C K: Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 12:46 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 1:01 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (Keith Stanier: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 5:40 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Fri, Dec 28, 2007, 7:42 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (Keith Stanier: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 5:09 am)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 9:59 am)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 12:01 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 12:51 pm)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Sat, Dec 29, 2007, 1:37 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (MartinM: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 2:36 pm)
-re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 3:44 pm)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (MartinM: Mon, Dec 31, 2007, 2:56 am)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (C K: Thu, Jan 3, 2008, 1:06 pm)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (Alan Masterman: Thu, Jan 3, 2008, 2:32 pm)
*re: Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Fri, Jan 4, 2008, 10:42 am)
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