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Mr. Luddite

On 1/27/2014 12:28 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:12:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/27/2014 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:22:33 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/27/2014 10:03 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

I'm surprised so many of you windoze acolytes don't run it at least once
a month in order to seek out and repair those bad clusters the OS creates.

I don't know Harry. For kicks I just ran chkdsk on this five year old
Vista laptop for the first time since I bought it. Took about 20-25
minutes and reported zero bad files or clusters. I've used this
computer a lot.

Generally you only get crosslinked and orphan clusters when you do
power dumps without a shutdown, closing all open files.
I think it is a worse problem with FAT drives than NTFS drives.

Norton DD does a whole lot better job with this than CHKDSK. It can
fix partition table problems and other beasies that make a PC a
doorstop.

Every computer we've had, including my wife's, have been allergic to
Norton. If a new computer comes with it I never enable it. If it *has*
been enabled (like on a couple of my wife's computers) I purge the disk
of any remnants of Norton. It caused more problems than it prevented, IMO.

I am talking about the disk tools, not the virus program.
I have never seen them bundled in the software.
NDD is not in the Windoze XP load.

Ah. I read "Norton" and shuddered. It's difficult to completely remove
it once installed. I thought it was gone on my wife's laptop and she
started getting popups requesting that Norton be re-installed.
I finally found a third party program that completely got rid of
anything to do with the Norton anti-virus program.