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Originally Posted by PeterT
LOL.. That reminds me of many years ago, a friend and I each had an Eagle portable PC; one of the early PC clones. He had ran a defrag of his hard disk and now few if any of the DOS programs would work. He was convinced he had a bad virus on his PC.
We found the problem was that he had faulty memory; the defrag read all files into RAM and wrote them back out. Any of the contents of the files read into the faulty error of RAM were now corrupt.
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Ouch!
Yes, Defrag is also RAM and I/O intensive.
Had a pair of 1/2 height 40M Seagate MFM drives that started having sector errors. Every few days another few sectors would come up bad.
2 drives from different lots, at the same time
Borrowed a PSU for a AT (286) clone. Drives came up clean.
1 @ $100 PSU was a whole lot cheaper than those $450 40M Segates.