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Re: Bitten by my own "cleverness"



golfrock wrote:
I did not do any such coding to change things around.  I pulled out my
old 286 with a HUGE 40MB hard drive in 2 partitions and was poking
around when I decided to do diskopt.  It started to run and shortly
thereafter crapped out due to bad sectors.  The machine still booted
but I couldn't get DOS off onto disks as that directory got screwed up.

PC's really have no longevity.

And any disk optimizer is a system reliability test.  ;-(

-michael

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