>>But after all the trauma, I wish I'd known about the 'Manage' window >>before, it makes life so easy. > > It has always been there ... :-) ... although now hidden from casual > use. What comes of having such a simple life on a QL I suppose. Want to format something? Just enter a FORMAT command :-(
>>BTW, I just ran a Defrag on my C: drive, the difference it's made is >>amazing. Makes me wonder how I put up with the sluggishness >>recently - >>it's months since I last defragmented the hard disk. > > You can check with a graphical view of the hard drive as to whether > it > needs a Defrag - use the Analyse option. > > Every time I use it I get the reassuring answer that the hard drive > does > not need a Defrag. > > So, what have you been doing to in recent months ... deleting or > moving > a lot of files around ... ? Yes. I'm normally conscientious about things like Defrag and backups, but it's months since I last remember defragmenting. >>Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever >>need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about >>that!) > > As far as Windows is concerned it is just one large file, so it > cannot > itself be defragmented - which is what happens to the hard drive > surface > area having gaps between areas of occupied data and areas not > occupied > by data. > > The Defrag with DOS/Windows packs the data together, removing the > fragments that got separated to be a whole continuous area of data. I could see that happening as Defrag reported its process. It takes a while to do it, but you can see how much better the layout is afterwards. I have a 512MB QXL.WIN with my QPC2, and about 75% of that is used, which is why I wondered about QL files within the QXL.WIN becoming fragmented or not. > Internally I don't know how the QXL.WIN holds its directions to > information. Yet it will not be affected by defragmenting. > > I guess someone can look all this up in the manuals ..... Be interesting to know the answer. But, I suppose, if fragmentation of QL files is a problem in the long run, I guess someone would have written about it by now. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
