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- From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: HELP: IIsi with SLOW hard drive
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.192046.1263@lmt.mn.org>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:20:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec5.175811.6881@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: usenet@lmt.mn.org
- Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
- Organization: LaserMaster Corporation
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- In article <1992Dec5.175811.6881@sol.UVic.CA>, pdemers@sol.UVic.CA (Patrick
- Demers) writes:
- > The stock 80 Meg hard disk on my IIsi has gone down in performance
- > since I bought my machine 13 months ago. It now performs painfully slowly
- > (index of 0.57 according to Speedometer 3.1). I recently got a disk
- > defragmenter (DiskExpress II), but that didn't seem to do anything
- > (Speedometer still at 0.57).
-
- Instead of simply defragmenting the HD, try optimizing it with something like
- Norton Speed Disk.
-
- Also, if you boot with the shift key down [to disable INITs] and run
- Speedometer, do the numbers change for the better?
-
- chaz
-
-
- ..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
-