[CUBE] Defrag?

[M. Jeffrey Coco]

Up until last weekend, I would have agreed. But FWIW - I did the DC 
card hide 'n seek, put in a Radeon 9600 pro, and the new Giga 1.2 
processor. Somehow along the way, the internal maxtor 80gb hard drive 
got messed up in a big way - wouldn't boot or even recognize. Disk 
Utility couldn't touch it, Disk Warrior was unable to put up an new 
directory, and Tech Tool 4 was equally helpless. Normally at this 
point, I would have given up, reformatted, and gone to a backup - but I 
had 3 days worth of xmas pics in iPhoto that hadn't been backed up, and 
had already be dumped from my CF cards. My wife was not a happy camper.

So in desperation, I hoofed it on over to CompUSA and bought NUM 8.0. 
And guess what,....the sob worked. It's Virtual Disk function in the 
Volume Recovery node, allowed me to find, and then backup my iPhoto 
library. Definitely saved my bacon. Back in the days before Symantec, 
Norton was the standard, and at least for the time being, I'm going to 
give it another shot.

Jeff


On Jan 7, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Gnarlodious wrote:

>
>> I found the disk utility, and all I could find to do was
>> verify the permissions. I have Norton for OSX, but have read lots of
>> warnings on this list to avoid it.
> For heaven's sake don't install Norton.