Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!hplabs!hp-pcd!hplsla!andyc From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Defragging A Hard Disk Message-ID: <5440057@hplsla.HP.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 20:09:18 GMT References: <5440055@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA Lines: 21 With regard to my posting about defragging, here's a caution! IF you are defragging the boot partition, BE SURE to re-write the boot sector of that partition after defragging the partition. (With ICD host adaptors, use the BOOT & CONFIGURE options of HDUTILS.PRG). The process I outlined zeroes the boot sector, so you'll lose your autoboot from hard drive. (Fortunately, recovery is easy, just boot from floppy as you would after formatting the hard drive, and then reconfigure the hard drive for autoboot). Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author, who has no pecuniary interest in the companies mentioned. Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino. All rights reserved. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%