[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Mark M. Florida]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 8:35 AM, Paul Williams wrote:

> I'm actually getting two drives (both 160GB) and on the first would be 
> the system in one partition, apps in the second, and the third would 
> be for everything else.

Lucky dog...  You could split one drive in half -- one half for the 
system *and* apps (DO NOT put the apps on separate partition -- bad 
news in OS X), and the other half for your media.

> I was going to dedicate the second drive to nothing but video media 
> files.

Excellent!

> No Norton? What do you recommend as a good disk utility?

Disk Warrior will cure any directory problems (what 90% of Mac disk 
problems are ultimately related to), but if you want to use Norton 
Speed Disk to defrag your media drives, I suppose that couldn't hurt 
(but I wouldn't trust Disk Doctor), as long as you run it from the CD 
and don't actually *install* all of the garbage that Norton uses to 
"maintain" your system.  You may also want to look at Tech Tool Pro 4 
or Drive 10 from Micromat.

- Mark F.