So, I was having major hard drive problems at home. Actually, the computer is my roommate's. The tower started making clunky noises (I described them as a really loud, stuttering CD drive) that scared us... and he revealed that in all of his time of owning it, the computer was never defrag'ed. Uguh.
We got an external drive to back-up everything, and based on some advice I got from the nerdios at Mac Forums (no hard time about this, please, but yeah, I go to other forums too), we got Alsoft DiskWarrior, with the complement being an order of a new hard drive.
It showed fragmentation on the three drives of something like 18%, 29%, and 58%. Since cleaning it out with DiskWarrior, the computer hasn't made the sound again, and everything seems more healthy.
As a usual user of Norton Utilities, I am surprised to say that from now on, DiskWarrior's what I'll be using... anyone else have any opinions on either application?
http://graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/hop.gif April
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We got an external drive to back-up everything, and based on some advice I got from the nerdios at Mac Forums (no hard time about this, please, but yeah, I go to other forums too), we got Alsoft DiskWarrior, with the complement being an order of a new hard drive.
It showed fragmentation on the three drives of something like 18%, 29%, and 58%. Since cleaning it out with DiskWarrior, the computer hasn't made the sound again, and everything seems more healthy.
As a usual user of Norton Utilities, I am surprised to say that from now on, DiskWarrior's what I'll be using... anyone else have any opinions on either application?
http://graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/hop.gif April
+++ april carter +++
Coming soon: www.sugarsock.com
thanks a ton and I really do appreciate your empathy..
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