Beware if you plan to use Drive Genius with SL

After having SL installed now for nearly 2 weeks I decided to take a look at my HD and see if by defraging would speed thing up a bit. I already had Drive Genius (DG) installed when I upgraded to SL so all I had to do was update it to version 2.2.1. No problem. Last night I decided to defrag the drive because DG was reporting what looked like a messy HD. So I re-clone my drive then booted from it and started defragging. About 45 minutes into it I got a warning message in red lettering that said Warning your drive has crapped out on you....not literally but you get the gist of it. So I decided to run Disk Warrior 4.2, which repaired the drive..I thought. When I went to boot into the internal HD all I got was a ? mark at startup. So I then decided to put in the SL DVD and try a disk repair which failed. After several attempts with DW, DG, and DU I decided to erase and reinstall.
All is fine now but what an ordeal. I Don't think I'll try defragging again anytime in the near future.

No need to defra running Snow Leopard.
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Disk fragmentation and particularly whether it can be fixed, is very controversial. The following thread is worth reading:
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BEWARE: Drive Genius 2.0.2 ate a partition. 2.0.2 is beta at best.

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