User Guide

McAfee Utilities
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Customizing Disk Minder Properties
In addition to auto fix, report, and interactively fixing errors options, you can
alsoselect otherproperties options to sethow you want Disk Minder to work
on your computer.
Figure 4-3. Disk Minder Properties Op tions
Oth er o p tions include:
• Check Partition Tables–verifies partition tables, that define the
partitions subdividing a physical drive into more than o ne logical drive .
• Check File Dates + Times–verifies that dates and times associated w ith
files are valid. In Windows 95, Disk Minder verifies the Created,
Modified, and A ccessed date and time stamps.
• C he ck Host Dr i ve First–checks th e p hysical drive w he re DriveSpace or
Dou bleSpace c ompressed volume files are stored. Then it c hecks the
co mpressed volume files, or logical disks.
• Check for Valid File N a mes–verifies that file names use acceptable
characters. Valid c haracters for file names are numbers 0-9, letters A-Z,
and basic symbols ex cluding the backslash ( \ ), greater than ( > ), less
than ( < ), colon ( : ), double quotations ( “ ), and bar or pipe ( | ). Disk
M inder for Windows 95 also che cks long file na mes as we ll as sho rt f ile
names that f ollow the 8.3 file nam e convention.
• Check for Non-ANSI File Names–finds any non -ANSI file names. All
characters are u niquely number ed fr om 0 through 255. Two standards
ex ist for numbering characters : ANSI and IBM ASCII. Windows uses
ANSI, and characters that appear on both numbering systems are
automatically translated by Windows to their ASCII equivalentsfor use
in file names, which must be stored in ASCII.
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NOTE: Disable this option when runn ing under an international
version of Windows that uses extended ASCII characters.
Select Properties options
and click OK