Using Windows 9x To Manage A Hard Drive

Using Windows 9x To Manage A Hard Drive

1. Practice disk compression by compressing a disk. Use a newly formatted disk and a disk about half full of data. Compare the results of the two compressions.

2. Use the Defragmenter utility to defragment the hard drive of your computer. Do not use this utility if a utility program other than Windows 9x has compressed your disk. If you haven’t used Windows 9x to compress the drive, look at the documentation for your compression software to see if it offers a defragmenter utility, and use that to defragment the drive.

3. If you are not using add-on utility software to compress your hard drive, use Windows 9x ScanDisk to repair any cross-linked or lost clusters on the drive. If you are using utility software other than Windows 9x to compress your hard drive, use that software utility to scan for cross-linked or lost clusters.

4. Create a file on an empty disk with a long filename. Using DEBUG, display the root directory entries for this file. What are the two filenames in the root directory?