Simpler Hd Maintenance....

Charred · Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 1011 Location: Central PA

Thanks FormalDaHyde,

I ordered O & O. Thanks for your analysis, it was very informative and, at the same time, down to earth. Smile

This defragger will keep up with the movement of files and not be a one-shot deal as an image would provide. I can't see myself doing daily imaging and refreshing of C:, so using Ghost or any other imaging program is only anticipated on a weekly or two-week interval. And that would be used if (when) I mess things up bad enough.

Again, thanks, and keep up the good work,
Charred

goretsky · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:59 am Post subject:

Hello,

When DOS was the de-facto operating system, I spent a lot of time worrying about disk defragmentation and file layout. I tested disk defragmentation programs from Central Point Software, Gazelle Systems, Golden Bow, Multisoft, Symantec and well as disk caching programs from the same as well as those bundled with operating systems. With such slow hardware, anything one could do to reorder the layout of operating system files so they loaded sequentially as well as the applications executed at boot time could greatly speed up systems which were unable to multitask. Downtime meant lost revenue, and for mission-critical systems with a maintenance window of, say, two hours a week, had a definite financial cost which could be calculated. Needless to say, backups and backups of backups and spare parts were kept close at hand.

These days it is much easier to build redundant networks where individual nodes can be serviced or brought online for additional capacity without having to worry about a single point of failure taking a whole system down.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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Reviving a very old thread: Rolling Eyes

It's April of 2007 and every program that comes along is bigger and smarter than its predecessors.
Every program we install today, wants to load TSR's and put its own icon in the system tray.

TSR's are programs that load at boot and run quietly in the background, sucking up valuable system resources. Crying or Very sad

To maintain a good running computer system today requires far more Due-Diligence than it did back in the days of DOS or even the first few years that we had MS Windows.

Also of greater importance is Hard Drive maintenance.
M$ has given us some pretty good tools to assure that our HD's remain clean of junk and defragmented.

We have:
Disk Cleanup, to remove junk files from the HD.
Chkdsk, to check the HD for errors, and
Defrag, to reorganize and defragment our HD's.

Anyone can do a pretty good job of HD maintenance, just by using the FREE programs that come already installed on any XP Computer.

It's always fun to revisit old threads, don't ya think?

Cheers Mates!
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