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Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Feb 06, '02 09:22:49PM

I used to use all those utilities … and for the most part had nothing but problems with them, with the exception of Anubis.

The one problem is they make extra partitions for their drivers, especially when doing a "take over." At one time you needed third party drivers for use on non-Apple hard drives. And they used to be a bit faster. Since 8.6 the Apple drivers have been just as fast, if not faster in tests I have done using HDT and Norton.

But for a while now you have been able to initialize a non Apple hard drive with DriveSetup. It's true that you can't re-partition a drive without erasing it using DriveSetup, but this is the only safe way. Even when I get a new Mac, that's the first thing I do.

The other problem is you have to keep buying updates to the third party utilities every time Apple updates the OS!

My advice is always, if you get a third party drive that is formatted using something other than Apple drivers, just format the drive before you use it using the Apple DiskUtility.



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