Hi, boys. Sometime ago, I installed the famous DOS 7.10 in my 80486. After a couple of weeks, where I tested the stability of it, I wanted to defrag the disk and scandisk it. A message (Generated by a batch file) told me that defrag was disabled in order to ensure the long file names, and so on. Scandisk, worked as the DOS6.22 did, but I can found in the scandisk screen that there are some unused holes beetween files, that I would want to disapear. Does anybody know any program that may replace the defrag.exe? Thank, very mutch. Osvaldo from Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sounds like Wengiers version of 7.10 Osvaldo. In a nutshell, he told me that defrag was not necessary. The MS versions of defrag I added did not work; I just didn't look any further for a defrag solution. I would imagine he and others have tried other solutions such as norton etc. but the problem with lfn's may limit your choices. I'll build another 486 in June and see if I can get to the bottom of this. Hopefully someone will come along with a solution and save us both a lot of work. Skip

Well, Ok, SkipCox. I have a total of 5 p.c.´s 80486, I´m crazy for them. Like who tune cars, I tuned the mainboards!!! Wait together with me so any can help us!!!

I'll wait...and do some "research" while we're waiting. I have a slew of 486 stuff just waiting for cases and power supplies. Enough stuff is available right now to build at least one DX4-100 and I expect to have enough cases this coming month to build 3 DX4-100's. The other option here is to forget about defrag w/ 7.10 or instll 6.xx and forget about long file names. Doesn't sound like a very good solution to the problem though. Skip

Did you fellows ever come up with a solution to this thread?? I am looking for the same solution. Tnks.