Is there a "pure" DOS defragger?

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Is there a defragger that works in Real Mode.

I'm using windows 98!

dos-man
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No,
I don't believe you can use realmode for deffragging and why
would want to??? I can understand doing it in a pure DOS
enviroment but in real mode that's just asking for problems.

br1ght

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BTW, your "pure" DOS, real mode is anything but 'pure'. The
only pure DOS enviroment (in the 9x kernel) can be found by
booting from A:\ using the Windoz Boot Disk.

br1ght

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Is there a defragger that works in Real Mode.

I'm using windows 98!
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I think the closest you can get is to defrag in safe mode. Don't know if
it's even allowed, but it's worth a try. I bet that will be s-l-o-w.

Bob

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Dos-Man said:
Is there a defragger that works in Real Mode.

I'm using windows 98!
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There was a DOS defragger in Norton Utilities version 8.0 but it was FAT 16
so it would be useless in a FAT 32 environment. I've never seen a FAT 32 DOS
defrag program.

Martin
 
Dos-Man said:
Is there a defragger that works in Real Mode.

I'm using windows 98!
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Defragging in Real Mode will mung long file names, however, as I
understand it, you need to get a drive or partition backup utility like
xxcopy, I don't know if this will run in real mode. After backup the
partition, you'll need to wipe it and then restore it, then your
partition will be defragged, at least it will fill a contiguous space
and the files will all be packed. You'll need to look for a Windows
utilty called lfnbk, (IIRC), from MS, to backup and then restore all of
the long filenames. You could probably use a batch file to automate all
of this.
My advice to you would be to use a great deal of caution doing this as
you could preclude Windows for ever running again. If all you have is a
DOS7 install without the Windows GUI installed, then I can see why you'd
want to do this. You'll need extra drive space to do it the way I
suggest. The other option might be to use the DOS6.xx defragger, again,
run lfnbk before to save any long file information, this should also do
the trick. I've never seen a DOS defragger that's third party and
freeware but I might be wrong here.
HK
 
I think the closest you can get is to defrag in safe mode. Don't know if
it's even allowed, but it's worth a try. I bet that will be s-l-o-w.

Bob

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There's a shareware program called "Power Defrag" which reboots to a
minimum state machine, runs defrag as the sole foreground process and
then reboots again back to normal state. It is the fastest defrag I
know and, presumably, could probably be made to work with Norton's
Speed Disk by using a link renamed to defrag very early in the path. I
have not tried this. You may have to delete defrag.exe and rename
Speed Disk.

It's probably worth the money.
 
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