Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HD20 Advice requested Message-ID: <663@stech.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 10:39:39 GMT References:Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 34 in article , halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson) says: > > > Fragmentation sounds like a likely cause, but perhaps there is some > typical intrinsic problem with this hard disk. > Questions: > 1) Should I reformat it? (It'll take forever to backup) Low-level > format? > 2) Any disk utilities (de-fragmentizers,diagnosing tools) out there > that I should get? You can solve the disk fragmentation problem with Disk Express (Mac Connection carries it) and you won't have to reformat the disk. > 3) Anything else I could do? (How much could I get for it, if I buy > a Jasmine instead....?) You can turn it into a SCSI drive with an upgrade kit. I'm sorry that I don't remember who sells it. If you can get your hands on a copy of MacWeek, check the ads in the back. This, of course, presumes that your Mac has a SCSI port. Even without out the SCSI upgrade, fixing the fragmentation will make life much better. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************