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- Drive Optimizer:
- This program will optimize floppy disks, hard disks, and ram disks
- (i.e. RAD). It is designed to provide for the safest optimization of
- your disks. It moves one disk block at a time to ensure this. So it
- will be slower than other optimizers which usually move whole tracks
- at a time. One Meg should take about six minutes to optimize on a
- hard disk that uses a Supra WordSync. The program does multitask, but
- do not use programs which will access the disk during the optimization
- or its crash city.
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- As with any optimizer make sure that your disk has been
- backed up recently in the event that something external happens such
- as a power surge or earthquake. If anything does happen, just use
- DiskDoctor to repair your disk.
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- Drive Optimizer is startable from the Workbench or from the CLI.
- There are no CLI options.
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- The biggest thing the user will see is the block field. This will show
- which blocks are free (blue), and used (black or white). A white pixel
- denotes a block that is part of a continuous set of blocks. A black
- pixel denotes a block that is not in sequence.
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- Below the block field are four statistics: Files and Blocks Left to move,
- Percent Done, and Time Done. Before optimizing, the first two
- statistics show the total number of files and directories, and blocks
- used. During optimization, Time Done shows the expected time when
- the program should be done.
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- Below the statistics are the four control gadgets. There is the START
- gadget for starting the optimization. The SCAN gadget for collecting
- information about where the files are. The DRIVE gadget for setting
- which drive to optimize. Last is the CANCEL gadget for exiting or for
- stoping the scan or optimization.
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- Before you can optimize, you must first scan your disk. The program
- will not allow you to start if you don't. If you stop the optimization,
- you can restart just by clicking on the START gadget unless you changed
- the drive, rescanned, or exited.
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- After a successful optimization, the free blocks are zeroed to clean
- up so that if you use diskdoctor latter on you will not have problems
- such as blocks used more than once.
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- If you have questions or have a bug to report, my handle on PLINK is
- Timeus.
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- This is a freeware program that may be freely distributed. It is not
- to be sold, but can be placed on public-domain disks for distribution.
- I take no responsibility for loss of data.
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