Glitch with diskwarrior

[Inert]

Well recently, I've been having some speed issues with my mac. A lot of freezing in the middle of typing and waiting 10 seconds for it to finish the sentence.
So I decided to optimize with diskwarrior. As I am no longer in NY I can't tell you what version it was, but I think it was 4.0.
I had 12% of my drive not optimized according to the graph I did.
So I ran DW and around 60% through it glitched. It said that it couldn't connect to the drive or something. So I tried self boting DW and the same thing happened. So I wrote a new directory, but it couldn't replace the old one because of the old directory being screwed up

EDIT: I found a log for diskwarrior. It doesn't really talk of a glitch, but whenever I tried to optimize and was halfway done ting, it would lse connection with my HD.

DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Macintosh HD." The new directory is
ready to replace the original directory.



All file and folder data was easily located.



Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the
contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement
directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 16,410,072
comparison tests were performed.



• Errors, if any, in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node
links, indexes and more have been repaired.



• 26 files had a directory entry with an incorrect text encoding value that was repaired.



• 9 files had a damaged extended attribute that was repaired.



• 1 folder had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.



• 2 folders had a damaged extended attribute that was repaired.



• Incorrect values in the Volume Information were repaired.



Disk Information:



Files: 617,105

Folders: 151,248

Free Space: 88.57 GB

Format:  Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Block Size: 4 K

Disk Sectors: 233,769,824

Media: FUJITSU MHY2120BH



Time: 2/18/08 7:24:40 PM

DiskWarrior Version: 4.0

[Radical_Pi]

hmm if it loosing the connection to the hard drive it sounds more like an OS or hardware problem than a glitch with the program. I'd say try re-installing the OS since as time goes on an OS slows down and you just need a clean slate to run with

Plus, if there are incorrect values in metadata of files, I'd say it's an OS problem also