Re: Bug in Perfectdisk 7 build 40 ?

On Mon, 23 May 2005 16:53:46 -0700, "Randy Scarborough" <void@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


>PD boot defrag has been failing for me, and I have had an extensive
>conversation with Raxco support. The conversation, however, has dried up on
>their end. FAT32 on WinXP Home SP2.
>
>I've isolated the problem to files with long path names (somewhere over 200
>characters). The analyze of a drive containing such files fails, and then
>PD boot-time defragment quits without any further processing (not even
>rebooting the system drive if it had already defragged the system drive when
>this error occurs on a subsequent drive).
>
>I recreated this error on a good disk by creating a folder with a
>fifty-character name, creating a fifty-character-name folder inside that,
>creating another fifty-character folder inside that, creating another
>fifty-character folder inside that, and creating a ten-character filename
>inside that. The disk boot-defragged OK before this nest was created; the
>boot-defrag failed afterward.
>
>Have not got a solution yet from PerfectDisk.
>
>Randy
>
Thanks for the info. I'm pretty sure I don't have long
recursive names as you mentioned, but I do have SP2 and fat32.

I have forwarded a bunch of info to Raxco today, so we'll see if
anything develops.

I have a dual boot XP system, the other iteration of XP is in an
NTFS drive. For a laugh, I installed PD there to see if it behaved
differently. It does. On the page where you select the offline
options (pagefile, folders & metadata) only the folders choice
was available when looking at my C drive (fat32) - the program
appeared to be smart enough to know that was the only valid choice.
Choosing folders and then initiating an offline defrag in this case
just does it right there and then - no boot necessary - as would be
expected.

However, when booted to the fat32 system itself and looking at the
offline options for drive C:, all three choices were selectable.
This was true in the previous build also, but the boot defrag still
worked (build 34)
Perhaps Raxco will find something.
Dave
.

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