![]() ![]() After you’ve initialized your disk, you will reinstall all your documents and programs at once, and thus they are positioned sequentially next to each other. If you have two documents far away from each other, it will then take a lot longer to open them than if they were closer. The farther away that sector is, the longer it takes to write the file. Here’s why: When you save anything to the disk, it puts it at the next available sector on the hard disk. ![]() There are programs, like Norton Utilities and Alsoft DiskWarrior,* that can defragment your disk and do other maintenance jobs, but those fixes don’t promise the same speed and reliability improvement. Get back to whatever fun thing you were doing!.Reinstall your backed-up stuff and the other applications from their respective CDs or disks (likely not the latter for newer Macs.).Install any needed system software updates.Select the disk you want to erase and click Initialize. ![]()
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