Miata Mailing List: January 1999, Message #300

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In EFWG V3.11 you have to exit to DOS and use the Scandisk and Defrag found
there, unless you are running a very old version of DOS, in which case you
can use most third party utilities.
Jerry Reuter & Elf (Charleston, SC)


-----Original Message-----
From:	miata@list.miata.net [mailto:miata@list.miata.net] On Behalf Of Dennis
B Swaney
Sent:	Saturday, January 02, 1999 9:49 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	(NMC) Wintel reformatting (Was Re: CD-ROM Help Needed)

At 8:36 -0800 1/2/99, Greg Faust wrote:
>Reformating every 6 mos is bunk. Statements like these are made to keep the
>uninformed scared of thier own PC's.  Running disk defragmentor and
scandisk
>on workstations is a better practice. Servers are maintained differently,
>most server software file systems have these faciliites built right in.
>Don't believe "everything" you hear.
>
>Greg

Yeah, that is what I thought, but since we were/are having problems with
WFW3.11, and the drive hasn't been reformatted for 3 years, there may be a
problem.

I don't even know if we have scandisk on that machine. Unfortunately, we're
in the middle of a big project that can't wait while I play around with the
computer. The "good" news is that the project uses a DOS program so we
DON'T have to be in WFW 3.11.



Miataly,
Dennis
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