>I purchased Norton Utilities and Drive 10 for Mac. Both have a >defragment utility. Both of these took around 6 hours to complete on >my dual G4 1.4MHZ, 80GB hard drive. Both also completely screwed up my >system to the point of reinstallation. I have completely given up on >any of these tools and consider myself to have wasted over $200.00 on >nothing of any value.
I've run Drive 10's utility on my 60GB disk in my 17" PowerBook. It took about 8 hours. I had no system problems, but I noticed no difference in performance. You know, it may be faster (no, it WILL be faster) to do a full backup with Retrospect, reformat the hard disk in question, then reinstall the backup. That should make things as optimized as physically possible, and you get a backup in the process! --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
