On 10/06/2014 10:03 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I understand that the only defrag program that runs on true DOS,
>> meaning not DOS in MS Windows, and that supports FAT32, is the
>> one written for FreeDOS. I also understand that the most
>> current version is 1.3.2.
>
>
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:25 AM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
>
> Problem is I cannot find a location to download [Defrag 1.3.2]. The
> freedos.org
> site does not have the current version where I can download it, and
> google is not my friend, in this case.
You didn't look in the right place (obv
On 10/06/2014 06:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Take a look here, that's the FDNPK online "Base" repository:
>
> ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/base/
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
> On 10/06/2014 03:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
>> I understand that the only defrag
Take a look here, that's the FDNPK online "Base" repository:
ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/base/
Mateusz
On 10/06/2014 03:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> I understand that the only defrag program that runs on true DOS, meaning
> not DOS in MS Win
> Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth.
Agree. No point to brew 64 KiO clusters.
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, dos386 wrote:
>> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which
>> uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS.
>
> Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but
> I never tested.
No, I didn't. It may be *possibl
> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which
> uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS.
Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but
I never tested.
> See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561
See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Marcos Florence wrote:
> 4GB FAT16 partitions would be a lot better, but for some reason
> I couldn't make them. FDISK isn't always easy to use.
FAT16 has a 2GB limit, imposed by the format. The smallest area of
disk accessible by DOS is the cluster. FAT16 uses
Hi,
A defrag supporting FAT32 would be nice indeed.
I have been taking lots of digital photos recently, and they
need large amounts of disk space.
The only reason I have been unwilling to use FAT32 is that there
is no way of defragmenting.
Instead, I made several FAT16 partitions of 2GB each --
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
>>
> Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2.
But I don't think that version supports FAT32. (And I have no idea if
defragging FAT is supported under Linux or FreeBSD.)
> I think my version of the defrag pro
On 02/26/2014 04:16 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden
> wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>>
>> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to
>> do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out).
> It cou
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>
> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to
> do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out).
It could be a bug in the program or (maybe?) an incompati
On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to
do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out).
On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor,
4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought
> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to
> do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out).
> On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor,
> 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have
> since removed windo
Actually you will have to disable all DPMI hosts completely,
HDPMI=16384 will only switch the whining from Windaube to DPMI :-(
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> a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS
FreeDOS DEFRAG is NOT a 32-bit program, but it should support FAT28
(at your own risk).
> DOS (7.0 for 32 bit file system
Where did you get it?
> How is defrag deciding that it is running under Windows
> (when it really is not)?
The detection indeed is
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 AM, John Sowden
wrote:
>
> I just downloaded defrag.exe, a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS.
It's not 32-bit at all, AFAICT, only a 16-bit MZ DOS .exe compiled by
Turbo C++ (though seems to have some support for building with
OpenWatcom as well).
Latest ver
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone is fixing the defrag that comes with freedos 1.0?
>
> I'm curious as I want to to try and fix it myself if noone else is.
>
> If anyone can help me understand what is wrong with it or connect with me
> with effo
Hi, sorry, I assume I can only reply via the list
as rfc-ignorant would still blacklist me...?
> when these efforts fail, they discourage both of us from trying
> to filter out spam at all. I run my own mail server and the
> recommendation I have run into is to use the whois.rfc-ignorant
> black
Hi!
> I'm wondering if anyone is fixing the defrag...
I was going to answer that question, but Michael's
email provider says that rfc-ignorant.org says that
the domain .de is not giving enough WHOIS information
unless you specify some "yes I do want that data"
flags in the query. Oh yeah. I wond
After FDOS folder was moved from drive C to drive D Defrag's full optimization works ok.
There are only four files (and no folders) left on drive C:
- kernel.sys
- command.com
- fdconfig.sys
- fdauto.bat
Drastic solution but very effective. I made drive D visible from WinXP so it can be def
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:47:29 -0800, you wrote:
>http://www.sysinternals.com/files/defrag.zip
>NTFS and FAT32 under NT 3.51
Under NT 3.51 that means you need WindowsNT ...
>http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/Defrag/INTEL/Defrag.zip
>Another one, claims to be more intelligent but quite slow.
Also
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/defrag.zip
NTFS and FAT32 under NT 3.51
http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/Defrag/INTEL/Defrag.zip
Another one, claims to be more intelligent but quite slow.
Florian Xaver wrote:
Hi!
There is no such program for (Free)DOS i think?
Bye, Flo
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Because you have a beta version wich is not optimized yet.
I am working on making it a lot faster and am also in the process of fixing
all the bugs.
For the mean time, please use microsoft defrag.
Imre
On a laptop with 4Mb of RAM,defrag is very slow then MS-Defra
Because you have a beta version wich is not optimized yet.
I am working on making it a lot faster and am also in the process of fixing
all the bugs.
For the mean time, please use microsoft defrag.
Imre
>
>
>On a laptop with 4Mb of RAM,defrag is very slow then MS-Defrag.
>Why is it too slow?
>
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