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Re: [LUG] defrag, win98 and linux boot loaders

 

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.
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