Re: Zip & Renaissance Troubles?

[90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Nathan Mates's lips:
> 
> What I would like to know is: has this happened to anyone else? Is there
> something I should have done beforehand, or should I go to another disk
> optimization program (are there any others?)?

    I've had lots of problems with Renaissance.  I bought a used copy a
few years ago because I liked Salvation for backing up my drive.  I used
Renaissance five times to optimize my hard drive.  It failed four times,
all on 32-meg partitions.  The only time it worked was on an 8-meg
partition on my old 40-meg drive.  Luckily I had backed up the drive
immediately before each optimization, so I didn't lose anything.  I have
long since switched to Prosel-16.  It hasn't corrupted a single byte of
data yet, and I must have used it a few dozen times now.  Once it
aborted in the middle because of a logical error on the disk, but it put
everything back in order before quitting.

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