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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
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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

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