natoodo Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Hey y`all I purchased idefrag a few weeks back. Burned the disk and it works fine on my dad's iMac.....but it wont boot off of the disk on my iHack. The BIOS is set to boot off of the disk first....and it does read the disk before it boots into osx....is there a entry that I can put into the darwine boot loader to boot off the disk? Any help is appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Just install it on your hard drive. You can set it to run when you reboot before you system drive mounts. btw, it about as useful as {censored} on a bull on a Mac, and dangerous. If you have a power failure while it's running it can frag your system drive, so make sure you have backups. Remember, Macs aren't windows and rarely if even need to be defragged. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/#findComment-725008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
natoodo Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah i know about the dangers...but im too cheep to buy another hdd. so how do i set it to run when you reboot before you system drive mounts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/#findComment-725024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah i know about the dangers...but im too cheep to buy another hdd. so how do i set it to run when you reboot before you system drive mounts? Been a while since I used it. One of the options is an offline defrag of the system drive. RTFM. Note: It has some issues with Leopard, so be sure to read about the workaround on their website. Again, I'd seriously consider NOT using this program. Can do a lot of harm for basically zero return. This program is designed to siphon money out of Windows converts who think they need to defrag. Consider reading the horror stories on MacUpdate and Version Tracker. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/#findComment-725273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I have kept a copy of boot system on a small partition on the same disc. whenever something goes wrong while tinkering, I boot to this partition, then make changes to the actual partition and fix it. for the one time I have run, I did the same thing for iDefrag, ie, boot from this extra partition and then run defrag for the real system partition. so here is what i saw. even though i definitely noticed that there were lot of empty spaces everywhere and definitely in area where system files are held (called extends i think), and defrag did a very good job alos. the yield in terms of speed is not something that will blow your mind. I got only a barely noticeable kick, but there was no change in xbench score for example or anything. this risk may be only useful if you are doing a lot of video or graphic editing work. other than thatm, may be just run once after all the installation and then forget about. i have realized that for editing work, it is best to keep a partition, run the software there, do all editing, then copy the file to repository partition when finally done and erase everything from the temp workspace. that way the files are not spewed everywhere. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/#findComment-725543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
combdn Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have two partitions. One (smaller) is for system and applications, the other is for data and large files, and I also moved my home folder there. I think the filesystem can take care of the system partition (which mainly affects the performance) for itself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101636-idefrag/#findComment-1066782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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