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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!worm From: worm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Ryan Bowles) Subject: Re: Stacker vs. Superstor Message-ID: <C178M8.IAM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center References: <1993Jan20.093942.91017@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <downs.63.727498434@helios.nevada.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:18:08 GMT Lines: 32 In article <downs.63.727498434@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes: >>Does anyone have any advice or info regarding the hard disk compression >>programs - Stacker and/or Superstor? >> >>Has anyone experienced any bad side effects caused by the installation >>of either program. I have heard and suspect that the PC's is slowed >>because of the constant decompressing and compressing. >> >>Does Windows work happily with them? > >I've used Stacker 2.0 & 3.0 for about a year & have had no problems. If >anything, it _speeded up_ disk access since there's less for the disk to >read (course having a fast processer helps). I keep windows in an unstacked >part of the disk but all my Windows apps are in stacked drives & I've had no >problems. 3.0 even has controls available in Windows, though it actually >drops out of Windows to defragment, etc. > >My own recommendation if you get Stacker, though--don't select the "stack >entire disk" option. This stacks almost all of your drive & calls it C:, >leaving the tiny unstacked remainder as D:. This necessitates some (to me) >bizarre shenanigans involving keeping duplicate config.sys & autoexec.bat >files, swapping them back & forth if you edit them, etc. I just cleared off >most of my hard disk & told it to stack the empty space, creating a new >drive & leaving C: alone. Haven't had any problems. > >Lamont Downs >downs@helios.nevada.edu He's telling the truth here.. If you dont leave part of c drive unstacked.. you might run into some problems.. I had a buddy who stacked the whooe drive and couldnt do anything to it, because he had corrupted it.. -worm