On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:13:46 +0100, you wrote:

>
>Also - do you need indexing on your files - you can turn it all off, then
>just turn it on for any directories you want
>it's sort of like the old windows file find pre-search, but without the
>delayed index building

Don't think so - have it on as I have a fast CPU but will switch it of to
see.  The culprits were lots of "index" unallocated? and it attempted to
recover "orphaned" files into folders 00001 etc but didn't.

>Interesting that Chkdsk didn't fix things
>  if it found errors it should have reported and fixed them
>  if it didn't find errors it should have reported no errors
>I wouldn't expect Disk Doctor in safe mode to report anything more than when
>in normal mode
>as it has to run under a logged in ID
>I wouldn't expect Symantec? Diskdoctor to do any more than Chkdsk with the
>appropriate disconnect and fix options set
>
>May be worth running from the booted CD so you don't need to login

Norton 2004 doesn't seen to want to boot so will try 2005 when I get a
chance.

I have misplaced my BART-PE so stumped at present!

>
>I was going to ask/suggest
>Do you have any facility that will 'walk' the partition like the very older
>version of Norton Speed disk

I do have the old Norton but it won't run on NTFS or XP Drat!
>Does the scan mode of defrag show any unusual quantity of unmoveable files
>
>But you say DD found the culprits - what were they - I missed that in the
>thread?
See ans 1

>


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