Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag

Dingwhistle wrote:

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"Ingeborg" wrote in message
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Dingwhistle wrote:

Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB.
Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ?

What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ?


Depends on the partitionsize. It's not recommended to use it on
partitions bigger than about 127GiB. Disksize doesn't matter *for
scandisk/defrag*.

I might have caused confusion for those who are trying to help and
answer my question. I mistakenly wrote "Scanregw.exe", when I actually
meant the DOS type ScanDisk which autoruns after a freeze/bad
shutdown; the one which can be disabled from within Msconfig.

As for the Windows utilities of Scandisk.exe and Defragmenter.exe, I
have the WindowsME versions installed and have used them on this
500GB. I've heard said : "It's no good; don't use it". Conversely,
I've also heard: "You can use WinME Scandisk and Defrag; it's fine.
But do not use native W98se Scandisk and Defrag".

Now, you wrote in initial reply: "Depends on the partitionsize. It's
not recommended to use it on partitions bigger than about 127GiB." I
assume you *are* actually referring to ScanRegw.exe . If so, that
brings up 'questions' I hadn't even considered.


No. I meant scandiskw.exe.