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How to defragment fat32 in dos mode?
Name: RMSE Date: February 23, 2000 at 09:11:26 Pacific
Comment:
Hello, i need an program that can defragmet an fat32 drive then the computer is in DOS mode, where can that be found?
Name: wong Date: February 23, 2000 at 12:36:38 Pacific
Reply:
DOS is FAT16, unless you find a program to translate FAT16 <-> FAT32, you can't. Why do you ask?
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Response Number 2
Name: pierre Date: February 23, 2000 at 12:38:08 Pacific
Reply:
RMSE,
Windows can do the defrag for you. Unless of course you can't access Windows. In that case, copy a defrag.exe file onto a disk, boot from a system disk and defrag the drive by using that file you copied. That's essentially defraging from DOS in a nutshell.
Pierre
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Response Number 3
Name: Al Date: February 23, 2000 at 18:46:31 Pacific
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Sorry, if you try to run the windows version of defrag from dos, you get a message that this program requires windows. However several third party defrag utilities may be able to run from dos. Not totally sure of this but think I have seen it advertized. Possibly Norton Speed disk. Al
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