Optimizing with Drive 10

The easiest way (might not be the best, but it's the easiest) is to use target firewire mode.

For instance, if you want to do it to your tower:
1) Shut Down tower (but have the PB on)
2) plug firewire cable into PB and Tower
3) turn on tower while holding down "T" (which tells it to do target disk mode)
4) wait for drive to mount on laptop
5) run drive 10

to do it to the laptop, boot the laptop in target firewire mode.

 

Um - the easiest way should be to put in the Drive 10 CD, and restart while holding down the "C" key.....That way the hard drive is unmounted.....Is there something wrong with this method?

 

I just figured the person already tried that and it didn't work. heh. Is Drive 10 a bootable OS X CD? Or bootable OS 9? If it's 9, then that would be the problem.

 

The new version of Drive 10 comes with a bootable OS X CD. Drive 10 was never created for OS 9, and is not meant for use on OS 9 disks.

 

can you spare the space and but OSX on your other hard drive, it will be a littler more work but this way you can optimize with the latest version of Drive ten, just install it on both of your drives and when you want to optimize just go to start up disk in system preferences and swicth start up disks to the one your not optimizing....