For boot drives, use CarbonCopy Cloner or SuperDuper. A reason to have a separate media drive. regards, sb On 1/8/05 9:32 AM, "James Asherman" <jimash at optonline.net> wrote: > > On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 12:24 PM, sb wrote: > >> The best, cheapest, and fastest way to defrag a hard drive is to copy >> all >> the files over to another one, erase the disk using the disk tool>erase >> disk, and then copy the files back over. >> >> regards, >> >> sb >> > > I do believe that is right, and I do that too. BUT.....you can really > F%%k up your boot drive > doing this if you don't do it right. > What one can do is move some incrementally increasing folder with files > all over the place ( Like my Music folder) to another drive, delete it > and move the copy back. Even that will help. > Jim >