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Posted by: juan123 on 2007-10-11 15:23:57
What tool can I use to defragment a PPC mac?, preferably freeware. I want to defragment 2 PPC ones that are running OS 9.1 and OS 7.6....Thanks!!
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Posted by: pee-air on 2007-10-11 16:55:35
Don't know of any freeware utilities to defrag your drives off hand, but Norton Utilities does a bang up job of the task. I wouldn't expect you to have too much difficulty finding Norton Utilities.
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2007-10-11 17:02:59
you might check a place onLINE thats pretty HOT
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Posted by: tomlee59 on 2007-10-11 20:36:12
Another method is to connect an empty drive to the bus, and then copy everything over to it. After verifying that the copy was successful, format (or otherwise empty) the original drive, and copy everything back to it.
Although perhaps cumbersome, this method has two things going for it:
1) It automatically creates a backup of your disk.
2) It uses no software that may have been obtained above room temperature.
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Posted by: alk on 2007-10-11 21:31:43
Norton does a bang up job of banging up your disk... I'd stear clear, but if you have to, make sure you have at least a 4.x version of Norton as previous versions don't work with HFS+.
Alsoft PlusOptimizer might do the trick for you, but it's not free.
Peace,
Drew
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Posted by: equill on 2007-10-11 22:40:42
Or find version 2.1.x of DiskWarrior, with which PlusOptimizer was then bundled, as it was not with DW 3.x because OS X has its own way with defragmenting. See also a passing comment about NUM here.
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