Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!rayssd!wjr From: wjr@rayssd.RAY.COM (William J. Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WARNING! FASTBACK may corrupt your hard disk! Message-ID: <1727@rayssd.RAY.COM> Date: 14 Dec 87 16:50:13 GMT References: <703@vaxine.UUCP> <3225@bnrmtv.UUCP> <7024@sunybcs.UUCP> Sender: wjr@rayssd.RAY.COM (William J. Ramey @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI Lines: 16 Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse Summary: Problems with Nortons Speed Disk?? In article <7024@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) writes: > The October issue of Computer Shopper advices against > using the Norton Speed Disk haed disk unframenting utility. > It caused missing files and file damages in their test. So > this is another case of software doesn't do what is claimed. > I was amazed at the review by Computer Shopper and their advice against using the Speed Disk utility. I`ve been using "SD" for several months and have never had any problem with it. It looked like most of the problems encountered with using "SD" was associated with files that had some form of copy protection with it. ?????? Bill