RE; I have had good luck with omnidisksweeper free trial version,the only downside to it is that it is difficult if its working or if its finnished,you can only tell by seeing line of data change color, its really very subtle,but acts basicaly as a defragmenter.and also turbomemory.I hope this helps On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 02:00 AM, skygram at canada.com wrote: > Hi G4 Listers! > > I recently installed a new 120GB-7200rpm Maxtor hard > drive and it works very well. However my older IBM > 20GB-5400rpm drive has become very slow. Much slower > than it should be. For it to function, I must often > wait 20 to 30 seconds for the little colored ball to > stop rotating before anything happens. > > I have used Disk Doctor 2 and Disk Warrior 3 and still > no difference in preformance. > > I am at a loss to explain what is happening. > > Any suggestions? > > Bill