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From: Guenther Fischer on 10 May 2010 14:12
In article <T-Bone-619645.20501909052010(a)news.giganews.com>, Chance
Furlong <T-Bone(a)megakatcity.com> wrote:

> I am getting an end of file error with Speed Disk when my Firewire hard
> drive is connected to my Blue and White G3, and am unable to defrag it.
> Any suggestions? I am using Norton Utilities 6.

If you are using these old Norton Utilities on the actual file systems
for the mac, you are lost sooner or later. Speed disk was a fast
defragger on older systems, but it was never a safe one. Alsoft had two
programs, that worked fine on these vintage systems: DiskExpress Pro
and PlusOptimizer. You may ask them for a copy of PlusOptimizer.

On actual file systems, IDEFRAG works reliable. But you will rarely
need defragging, because smaller files are defragged auomatically.
Larger files may like videos may need it, but you also should see the
risk of loosing data, if you defrag files. Any bad block on your hard
disk may cause problems, for example...
From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 15:33
In article <100520102012548133%never(a)spam.invalid>,
Guenther Fischer <never(a)spam.invalid> wrote:

> On actual file systems, IDEFRAG works reliable. But you will rarely
> need defragging, because smaller files are defragged auomatically.
> Larger files may like videos may need it, but you also should see the
> risk of loosing data, if you defrag files. Any bad block on your hard
> disk may cause problems, for example...

None of this applies to Mac OS 9.

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From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 15:34
In article <slrnhughlf.kli.g.kreme(a)ibook-g4.local>,
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <jollyroger-8F99E2.09235310052010(a)news.individual.net>
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> > In article <slrnhufnmk.gfj.g.kreme(a)ibook-g4.local>,
> > Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
> >> In message <T-Bone-619645.20501909052010(a)news.giganews.com>
> >> Chance Furlong <T-Bone(a)megakatcity.com> wrote:
> >> > I am getting an end of file error with Speed Disk when my Firewire hard
> >> > drive is connected to my Blue and White G3, and am unable to defrag it.
> >> > Any suggestions? I am using Norton Utilities 6.
> >>
> >> Norton is no better on the Mac than on the PC; it is possible it's even
> >> worse. Don't use it.
>
> > In general, now-a-days, yes, but I recall that Speed Disk used to be a
> > pretty good disk optimizer back in pre-X versions of Mac OS.
>
> I remember having to recover someone's hard drive after it had been
> destroyed by Norton. I think it might have been version 5? Somwhere
> around Mac OS 8.1 or so.
>
> We got about 40% of the data back.

Destroyed by which Norton tool?

Speed Disk was a separate tool from other tools in the Norton Utilities
package.

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From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 20:54
In article <4be887b7$0$4818$ba624c82(a)nntp02.dk.telia.net>,
Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote:

> Jolly Roger wrote:
> > Guenther Fischer <never(a)spam.invalid> wrote:
> >> On actual file systems, IDEFRAG works reliable. But you will rarely
> >> need defragging, because smaller files are defragged auomatically.
> >> Larger files may like videos may need it, but you also should see the
> >> risk of loosing data, if you defrag files. Any bad block on your hard
> >> disk may cause problems, for example...
> >
> > None of this applies to Mac OS 9.
>
> Yes, but it requires a bootable 10.4.9+ system, the iDefrag can defrag
> the classic disk/partition. - But it won't run on OS 9.x

Can you read? See the Subject up there? The OP isn't running Mac OS X.
He's running Mac OS 9.

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