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Defrag Hard Drive

What's the best way to defrag my hard drive?

Posted on Oct 9, 2005 9:28 AM

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Oct 9, 2005 9:38 AM in response to aledwar

Hi aledwar,

There is also usually no need to "optimize" or defrag in X

If you are doing a lot video edit and need to defrag IMO the best way is to clone your entire drive to another drive, erase it and clone back. Clean as a whistle with no fragmentation.

Never use Norton. TechToolPro 4.0.5 can defragment but again why use a process that attempts to piece together thousands of file fragments with the possibly of a fatal error?

If you are not doing that type of "heavy lifting" with your Mac, leave it alone and let it take care of itself.

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