At 9:56 AM -0700 7/1/02, herb schulsinger wrote: >I've never used TechTool Pro to optimize (or defragment) my disk, >but Norton actually moves data around >on the disk to make all parts of a file contiguous. A word of >caution: Norton updates the disk >directory only when it has completed all moves, so if your computer >crashes before it's done, the >directory doesn't represent the actual ordering of data of your >disk. Not good! DiskWarrior, which is >what I always use, leaves the data alone and simply rebuilds the >disk directory, thus accomplishing >very quickly what other optimizers take far longer to do. Too, DW >doesn't replace the old directory >until you've had a chance to preview the new directory and compare >it with the old one. If the >directory is optimized, so is the rest of the disk.
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