Formatting tools. Format any physical device to FATX specifications! -A new and improved transfer system with a very informative transfer dialog. The transfer speeds are MUCH faster. For example, on a 500gb disk, it would take about 30 seconds to inject a 1kb file. With v2.0, it takes about 20 seconds to inject hundreds. So I just erased it manually through the xbox to format it to FATX. USB Cruzer Blade 4GB stick with HDD Guru's LLF Low-level Format Tool.

This is not another discussion about 'How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive' I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition. And the answers are always like 'Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac. Nissan consult 3 software cracker. OSx automatically does it for you. Mac is so wonderful that. Bla bla bla.' I GOT IT, Ok.?

This time is different, I would like to know. What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition?? Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac.

You want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand. Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system? I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again. Thank you very much! Even though a Windows formatted external drive may need defragging every now and then it certainly does not need to be done on a Mac computer. If you don't have a Windows PC handy, or one at all, then wait until you do and do the defrag on that PC. In the case that you don't have a Windows PC at all then your external drive should not be formatted with any of the Windows formats.

That is IMHO just foolish. If you have no Windows PCs why in the world would you have an external formatted FAT32, exFAT or at the worst NTFS as Mac can't write to NTFS formatted drives. Windows 7 activator v2 by orbit 30 2009 nfl. Now if you have a boot camp partition with Windows installed on it then boot to Windows to do the defrag. To asnwer your real question.

No it is not possible, at least not with OS X natively without having some add-on program and even then I'm not sure it can be done successfully. Mat060 wrote: This is not another discussion about 'How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive' I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition. And the answers are always like 'Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac. OSx automatically does it for you. Mac is so wonderful that. Bla bla bla.' I GOT IT, Ok.?

This time is different, I would like to know. What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition?? Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac. You want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand. Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system? I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again. Thank you very much!

Use DiskWarrior, respect your fellow users here, and perhaps stop with the multicolour, multi-font sized posts, which annoy the h#ll out of people that would normally help you. DiskWarrior will do all you need to do, except perhaps for a Permissions repair once or twice a year if you believe it to be necessary. Even though a Windows formatted external drive may need defragging every now and then it certainly does not need to be done on a Mac computer.

If you don't have a Windows PC handy, or one at all, then wait until you do and do the defrag on that PC. In the case that you don't have a Windows PC at all then your external drive should not be formatted with any of the Windows formats. That is IMHO just foolish. If you have no Windows PCs why in the world would you have an external formatted FAT32, exFAT or at the worst NTFS as Mac can't write to NTFS formatted drives. Now if you have a boot camp partition with Windows installed on it then boot to Windows to do the defrag. To asnwer your real question. No it is not possible, at least not with OS X natively without having some add-on program and even then I'm not sure it can be done successfully.

Petermac87 wrote: Use DiskWarrior, respect your fellow users here, and perhaps stop with the multicolour, multi-font sized posts, which annoy the h#ll out of people that would normally help you. Thanks for the avice Pete, in both, my question and my text formatting.

You should understand that I really wanted to be clear on what the question was before someone came and asked something such as: 'Why would you even want to defrag something in Mac?' Believe me, I've seen many forums, even in the Apple community where our fellow users seem to be tired of asking the same question again and again.