Dave,

I apply a very basic premise: remove or mark bad spots on the drive before you
move any data. To move important data to a bad spot on a drive with defrag and
then remove the bad spot with scandisk really doesn't make much sense to me.

Joe Drysdale



In a message dated 3/18/99 8:48:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< I've heard that the ScanDisk is supposed to run before you Defrag?  I
 usually run Scan Disk on all three of my drives and then Defrag all
 three after that.  Is there any special order they should be run or even
 if it makes a difference which one runs before the other?
                                 Thanks,
                              Dave Schroeder >>

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