Diskwarrior External Drive

Spotlight is a possibility. But I have used DiskWarrior from my local disk to check the external firewire drive, which has the Tiger system installed, with no problems at all. ...

What I'm doing now is trying to rebuild it while started up from a huge external hard drive which will also serve as my backup device for clean wipe. ...

Since we have no idea what is on your startup drive or how big it is in the first place, this is almost an impossible question to answer. Stripping out unused printer drivers has already been suggested. ...

I still have no clue as to why these utilities insist on trying to get you to install the software on the boot drive. It's useless. Even with external drives, it's safer to boot from the CD to check the disks and make repairs. ...

GB RAM, along with the internal 40GB HD and an external Lacie 160GB FW 400 HD. ...

It's good to keep at least a few gigs free on the OS X drive that you boot from. ...

I'm having a similar problem with a FAT32 external disk. I bought Alsoft Diskwarrior yesterday and it won't mount the FAT32. I'm going to take it to one of my Window Friends and see if their disk utilities will work on it. ...

leworks file. she barely fills up 10 gb of it. i've only defragmented it once in 3 years and i couldn't tell the difference when i did. i just upgraded to 40 gb drive last weekend so my judgement on whether or not i'll need to defrag is still out. ...

well, it finally got here last week and i have used it to run tests and to repair my directories and defrag my boot disk. i must say i'm impressed. the drive runs quieter and smoother than it has in over a year and i regularly did these tasks with the classic versions of diskwarrior and plus optimizer. ...

the drive seems to work O.K. ...