The files at the highest cylinders might be backup information that
certain norton utilities keep. Do you mean that the disk was actually
defragged to the two ends, or are there just a couple of megs at the high
end?
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Matthew Hiller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm helping out the guy upstairs, who's setting his computer up to
> dual boot. He defragged it with the latest trial version of Norton Speed
> Disk, and what we discovered was that his hard drive was defragged, but a
> lot of files were condensed to space in the highest cylinders as well as
> just the lowest, which put a dent in his plans to use fips.
>
> Anyone know if the behavior of Norton Speed Disk has changed
> lately?
>
> Matt
>
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