[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 12:25  PM, Paul Williams wrote:

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>> On Dec 3, 2003, at 8:35 AM, Paul Williams wrote:
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>>>  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.
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>> 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.
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> The first of the two drives i was going to partition 3 ways: OS, apps, 
> docs.
> The second drive i'll probably partition 50/50 for video files and 
> scratch. What's a good size for a scratch disc? 40, 50 gig?
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I wouldn't do it.
One disk should be the OS and apps. Assign scratch to this disk on no 
particular partition.
The video disk should not be partitioned IMHO

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>>>  No Norton? What do you recommend as a good disk utility?
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>> 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.
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>> - Mark F.
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> I use Disk Warrior now on 9.2 and i love it. Does disk warrior have a 
> version for 10.3?
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