On 02/26/2014 04:16 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden > <jsow...@americansentry.net> 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 incompatibility with > your partition. I know it doesn't always work perfectly, trying to do > everything in real mode (which is fairly impossible for really huge > FAT32 drives). > >> 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 window (xp?). > So you don't have access to any other versions of DOS or OS/2 or > Windows? (Take the hard drive with you to another machine, and try > there.) Obviously if the FreeDOS version doesn't work at all, you'll > have to use a different one (if defragging is that important to you > and just re-copying / deleting doesn't work as a simple kludge). > >> the defrag program doesn't work on FAT32. > Well, I'm pretty sure that's not true anymore, but I haven't tried it lately. > >> this is the one I am running: >> >> FreeDOS defrag >> >> FreeDOS defrag is a free software implementation of a file defragmenter >> under the GNU General Public License. It was especially implemented for the >> FreeDOS project. >> >> <<screenshot at www.nongnu.org/free-defrag/>> > According to FreeDOS's Software List (.LSM), the latest version of > Defrag is 1.3.2. > > http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=defrag > > While it still lists Imre Leber as maintainer, there hasn't been a > newer version since 2009, so don't get your hopes up on any huge fixes > coming. (Sorry if that's not what you want to hear.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. > Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer > Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. > Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2. I think my version of the defrag program is 1.3.1 (downloaded yesterday-I think I'll look elsewhere).
I remember copying to another drive years ago, think I'll try it as my data is only 120MB. Again, thanks. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
