Re: Mac Disk Utility

Jlen7 wrote:
> I'm not aware of a decent disk utility for Mac since Norton Utilities 8=
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> came out for OS 10.3 and under. Since Norton Utilities is not sup****tin=
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> future Mac products, I am forced to find something else.

I too is sad that Norton has stopped making products for OS X. I've been =

a Norton user since ver. 1.5/2.0...

> Would anyone please recommend a disk utility that they have found=20
> particularly useful at fixing disk errors for 10.4 and up, and/or the n=
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> iMac with the Intel chips?

For the standard repair, you can use the built-in Diskutility to repair=20
permissions and smaller issues on fx. an OS 9.x partition or a backup=20
disk without any system.

For major repair I use these:
- DiskWarrior 4.0 to repair/make new directory
www.alsoft.com
- Cariolis iDefrag for general defragmentation and optimizing
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
- Intech Speedtools Utilities for drive test (SMART status for disks=20
that's not sup****ted by Apple's Diskutility), better defragmentation,=20
making full bootable backups, making it possible to enable some specific =

PC hardware and more.
http://www.speedtools.com/STUS.shtml
- MainMenu for general system maintenance - such as cleaning logs,=20
caches etc...
http://www.santasw.com/

cheers, Erik Richard

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