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On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:59:28 +0000 Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
I guess starting it in DOS mode and running Scandisk would be an even more sure-fire way of doing it. I have vague memories of trying to defrag and Scandisk eventually giving up because something was writing to the disk. Sorry I'm a bit sketchy, it's a very long time since I owned a Windows PC... Cheers, Jon
I seem to recall that dropping to DOS-mode to do such things was not always advisable... particularly if you had a large harddrive. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html