You're right about a messy defrag with this option
on.

What I do is run "Defrag" in "Safe Mode" and leave 
the checks in place.  But, before defragging, I run 
"Scan Disk" and then right after defragging, I run 
"Scan Disk" again.  (the old BELT and SUSPENDERS 
philosophy).

Then, I use "Partition Manager" to set the 
partitions.  It seems that not many people have 
heard of "Partition Manager" but it's a super super 
partitioner and has gotten me out of trouble many 
times. I recently decided to shrink my  C:/hda1 
partition and expand the adjacent one (Linux swap)--
-piece of strawberries and cream cake with Partition 
Manager.

 
On 19 Jan 2002 at 17:16, Brian Parish wrote:

> Yes, that's the one!  It will screw things up entirely.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Do you mean deselect:
> > 
> > "Rearrange program files so my programs start faster"   ?
> > 
> >  My defragger doesn't have anything about "optimizing 
> > performance" 
> > 
> > 
> > On 19 Jan 2002 at 14:17, Brian Parish wrote:
> > 
> > > One other note to this - yes, run the defragger, but ensure you have
> > > deselected the option to "place data and programs to optimize
> > > performance" - something similar to that anyway - at least in 98. If you
> > > defrag with this on, Mr. Gates will stick a whole lost of stuff at the
> > > very end of your partition and diskdrake won't let you do anything with
> > > it.
> > > 
> > > Brian
> > >
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 



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