Jerry, That's my plan. I almost never do a total reinstall unless I reformat the drive first. If I'm going to all that trouble I figure I might as well start totally from scratch.
We do defrag on a regular basis - especially machines that do a high volume of copying files back and forth. And you are so right, it takes forever anymore to defrag a drive. Thanks for the tips! Beth > ---------- > From: Jerry Yeager > > Rather than just re-install let me suggest to you the following: > > 1) back-up the files that are critical by copying them to another drive > 2) Zero the drive out (re-format) > 3) Copy the files back. > > p.s. Uh, de-fragging a drive can take a while, depending on how big the > drive is, how many files are on it, how badly fragmented they are, etc. > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
