At 09:54 06/24/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>> From: Jud McCranie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>> Since Prime95 writes to the disk periodically, is it safe to do a disk
>> defragmentation while it is running?
My computer is up 24/7. Prime95 writes to disk every 30 minutes, and my
email program (Eudora) checks for new mail every 20 minutes. Three times a
week my computer automatically runs Win98 defrag program to defrag all
7.5GB of HDD space (a 4.3 HDD, and a 3.2HDD) I've never had any real
problem. Everytime something writes to disk defrag restarts, scans for
errors, and then checks over all that it has defraged, and picks up where
it left off. This takes 1 to 2 minutes. I've had some unexplained
computer hangs while defragging, but I can't attribute that to Prime95. So
that's the long.
The short is, it's entirely safe to defrag while running Prime95.
--Peter
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