Re: Speed Disk vs Defrag

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK (and I probably should have known this).
But above, I thought you had said that "the file system (in XP) does not
need to flip through each individual cluster to find the next one", and I
mistakenly thought you were implying that FAT was that way (in contrast with
NT). But maybe you're talking about going through the entries within the
table itself (FAT or MFT).

I think you'd be crippled if your parentheses keys ever stopped
working. It'd be like tying an Italian's hands behind his back and
then telling him to talk.
.

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