Seem to have screwed up my hard drive...

[BillyBunter]

I'm a real newbie to macs so bear with me. Purchased a new iMac 17" a few weeks ago and decided last night to run SafeShred (a file shredder utility) on my hard drive - thought I might clean it up a little. So, after a fairly short while, my iMac seemed to freeze - I couldn't get past the screensaver - though I could hear SafeShred running in the background. I decided to let it go through the night and this morning it was still frozen and the only thing I could do was disconnect the power supply. So, when I rebooted, my hard drive says that I have less than 1Gb free - over 79Gb used! My preference files seem to be shot to hell, I can hardly do anything on it. Every program I run seems screwed.

Needless to say, SafeShred is not that safe. Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do next? Many thanks for any input.


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[Bear]

In truth, I would recommend backing up your data files (burn them to CD?) and using the restore disks that came with your system to do a clean fresh install..

Or you could complain to the safeshred folks first and see if they have any comment.

[Dont Hurt Me]

Unless you have some important stuff on it i would reload all my stuff from the disc that came with your machine if im not mistaken. Also i have heard a lot of stories where utilities can screw up more things then they fix. I have a powermac 800 and have never even ran any of these because of what i had seen in the past. 2 year old system doing fine and im a gamer and play with photos. Hopefully you will get some more ideas from the readers. The 17 imac is one sweet looking machine. good luck

[BillyBunter]

thanks folks for your suggestions. I'll give it a go.