Ben Kennedy sez: >Is DiskWarrior pretty good?
I rely on it immensely and wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone. The Classic version replaced Symantec utilities for me years ago. I refuse to use Symantec products now due to problems their buggy programs caused, as well as their draconian virus "subscription" policy. (As a tech service person, their subscription update keeps me from having virus updaters on hand for clients when I visit, something that is imperative for several of my clients without internet access.) The classic version even worked on Mac OS X hard drives just fine, but DiskWarrior v3.0 has been released now and is Mac OS X native. Alsoft also makes PlusOptimizer for defragging the drive. a copy of it came with DiskWarrior but I don't think it does now because there is no OS X native version of it. But the classic PlusOptimizer also works fine on OS X disks. I don't use DiskWarrior nearly as much as Lane does, and I haven't seen any of these over-write issues myself, but I regularly use DiskWarrior on client machines. DiskWarrior has also been able to recover for me drives Symantec's utilities trashed or would not even mount. It is definitely well worth having in your troubleshooting arsenal. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
