Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-09-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Geraldo, it is ages that kernel is compatible with FAT32... what do you mean? Aitor 2009/8/25 Geraldo Netto : > Hi, > > I hope it helps Eric > http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/ > *  2009-07-27: releasing 3.0.5 - bugfix and cleanup for VFAT patent > avoidance kernel patch > * 2009

[Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation. NSSI.

2009-09-01 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Eric, Japheth, First let me clarify that, as far as I am concerned, the JemmEx problem with NSSI (System Information) is not so important. NSSI runs well under HimemX + Jemm386. The topic of my original posting was "Disk checking and defragmentation", which is what I need most. This notwithsta

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-8-2009 3:21, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schreef: > [Eric] >> Please explain what you mean by strange... You should also be able to >> drop bad items with CHKDSK / DOSFSCK. >> >By strange I mean: > >(1) Their names were full of illegal characters. > >(2) They could not

[Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-28 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Christian and Eric, > [Christian] > Did you use the latest DOSLFN version (from Jason Hood)? This is the version I used at the time of the crashes: DOSLFN 0.40c (haftmann#software & jmh 11/05) > [Christian] > More importantly, notice that DOSLFN can be disabled or unloaded > without re

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, Marcos I do not know how DOSLFN interacts with CHKDSK and whether we are talking about errors created by DOSLFN alone and detected by CHKDSK later or about errors created by some effect of having DOSLFN loaded why CHKDSK runs but... Having HIMEM and LBACACHE active helps a lot with

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-28 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, > Thanks for your interest. Thanks for reporting to the list! > One exception is DOSLFN, which I occasionally used in > combination with the file managers NDN or File Wizard to > decompress files with InfoZip. > > Whenever DOSLFN was used, CHKDSK would find dozens or even > hundreds of damag

[Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-27 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Eric, Christian and Geraldo, Thanks for your interest. Here is what I have observed about CHKDSK, DOSFSCK and DEFRAG. As I'm writing from memory, this is not very accurate. In the future I'll take notes in order to report more reliably. After several crashes in my early days with FreeDOS two

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-25 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi, I hope it helps Eric http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/ * 2009-07-27: releasing 3.0.5 - bugfix and cleanup for VFAT patent avoidance kernel patch * 2009-07-21: releasing 3.0.4 - compatible with VFAT patent avoidance kernel patch, bugfix in dosfsck repair mode * 2009-05-18: rele

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marcos, > (2) The previous version of DEFRAG crashed, with loss of files, when > there was something wrong in the hard drive which DOSFSCK had not been > able to fix. > > And speaking of disk checking, I haven't had much luck with DOSFSCK > either, and still less with CHKDSK. Both crashed wit

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-25 Thread Christian Masloch
> And speaking of disk checking, I haven't had much luck with DOSFSCK > either, and still less with CHKDSK. Both crashed with loss of files in > different occasions. As a result I'm now wary of using either, and > when I occasionally do run DOSFSCK I get apprehensive. DOSFSCK works fine for me. I'

[Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-24 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
On 21 Aug 2009 Michael Robinson wrote: > I am bugged that Freedos defrag still doesn't work all that well. I'd > like to see Freedos defrag get fixed. Me too. I haven't defragmented hard drives for many months now, because: (1) DEFRAG 1.3.2 does not seem to work at all in my computers. (2) The