re: Defraging with Me tool
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
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> 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.
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This would be true on old HDD's with no cache or drives where the cache is disabled.
Problem is that the drive may/will report data as being written when it hasn't so
to be safe, disable the cache. Been there done that as they say.. In any unstable
system I have used or worked on, I disable the HDD cache until I can determine why
it is unstable and effect repairs. Of course, a power failure is going to cause FS
damage that may not be recoverable anyway so any damage done due to a defrag process
going on at the time will be the least of your worries anyway IME.. ;-)
UPS' are cheap enough, it's a head scratcher as to why users wouldn't have one connected
if their data is so valuable. Sure would cut my service calls down a lot around
here since we lose power at least 3 times a year or more... :-(
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- re: Defraging with Me tool (gewg_: Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:44 pm)
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