Tip for defragging

[oxbow]

A few days ago I've tried O&O defragmentation and this software ROCKS!

My loading times are increased big time and it's therefore highly recommended; it can defrag in different ways, it totally 'rebuilds' your HD on name, on modified files, in stealth mode etc. and is extremely fast, (except when it has to move large files) and only a small minimum of HD space is required (as big as the biggest file on the drive). It has a nice gui where you can see what it is doing with your HD.

You can download a 30 day trial to test it yourselves.. so do it

Da link: http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/

[Nologic]

I hope you meant that your load times "decreased"

I use diskkeeper my self but O&O is a good one as well.

[shbon]

I hope you meant that your load times "decreased"

I use diskkeeper my self but O&O is a good one as well.

I use diskkeeper aswell. Has O&O got something DK's not got?

[Atari800]

I use PerfectDisk

Some pretty neat reading if your into it PerfectDisk 7 vs DiskKeeper 10

and

PerfectDisk 7 vs O&O Defrag V8

[oxbow]

I hope you meant that your load times "decreased"

oops yes

PerfectDisk 7 vs O&O Defrag V8

Well this is about 'stealth' defragging; I used it with complete/name defragging; rebuilding the HD on alphab. order. (a 200GB disk with only 3GB space left)

[shbon]

I use PerfectDisk

Some pretty neat reading if your into it PerfectDisk 7 vs DiskKeeper 10

and

PerfectDisk 7 vs O&O Defrag V8

A bit one sided on first read, but you'd expect that given its written by O&O Defrag!

I'd say in balance that having a badly fragged drive is a valid test, but shouldn't be the only real world example. Defragging is more about good disk mgmt: doing it regularly and from the start of a drive's life. If a drive's got low defragmentation levels, ANY product, even the inbuilt XP version, will work well and keep everything running smoothly...

My drive is automatically defragged in background by Diskkeeper so I don't normally have any fragmented files. O&O ain't going to better that!

Concede that O&O can maybe handle a badly fragged partition better, but that's irrelevant to anybody who defragments regularly...

Shaun

[Atari800]

Bah - agreed

Whatever makes your system purr, right?

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[oxbow]

Concede that O&O can maybe handle a badly fragged partition better, but that's irrelevant to anybody who defragments regularly...

Shaun

Well the bad thing is that I once and a while update my roms and add some new stuff too on my HD; and so are some mame/other roms located in the beginning of the disk and the newer ones in the end of the disk, resulting in some chaos in my HD; that's why I love the alphabetically defragging of files & folders of O&O.. I don't know if the other brands of software have that feature too? You can have a nice defragged HD everyday but if your files are spread up over the entire HD you don't have much advantages of your fragmentation.

But OK enough advertizing now for O&O

[Atari800]

A bit one sided on first read, but you'd expect that given its written by O&O Defrag!

I'd say in balance that having a badly fragged drive is a valid test, but shouldn't be the only real world example. Defragging is more about good disk mgmt: doing it regularly and from the start of a drive's life. If a drive's got low defragmentation levels, ANY product, even the inbuilt XP version, will work well and keep everything running smoothly...

My drive is automatically defragged in background by Diskkeeper so I don't normally have any fragmented files. O&O ain't going to better that!

Concede that O&O can maybe handle a badly fragged partition better, but that's irrelevant to anybody who defragments regularly...

Shaun

I tried O&O (I got it on my work computer) - it does to some defrag in the background - but does it stop when major activiy is occuring? I am not sure what constitutes it?

I'd figure GAMEEX running (attract mode, videos, games) would stop that feature one would think

I dont see Perfect disk having ALPHABETICAL defrag - it has SMART PLACEMENT which it looks at files activily used (within 30 days), to files commonly used (30-60 days), to rarely used (60 days or more) - then places them accordingly on the disk

Also it has FILE SYSTEM defrag which needs to be done on a reboot before Windows starts because they are locked by the OS

These files are Pagefile - This is your virtual memory file (Pagefile.sys). This file is exclusively locked by the operating system and can only be placed by a boot time defragmentation pass.

System Files - These are operating system files such as the Master File Table, the hibernate file and other metadata files. Depending on the operating and file systems some of these files can be defragmented online and some offline.

Directories - On NTFS formatted drives directories are treated as online files. On FAT/FAT32 formatted drives directories are treated as offline files.

You can "see" the directory (tree) fragmented - which can go all over the drive even if files are defragged.

On my 80 gig drive (fairly fragemented as I speak) - the directories are taking up 15.7 mb

So to reconstruct the directories - it needs to assemble that 15 mb - then to update a files modifiation time or last access - it needs to worm its way around again

But this is just educational topic - not a "my defrag can beat up your defrag" rock fight

And everyone is correct...with a blazing fast drive and defragmenting with anything a few times a month, there only are minimal gains on a home computer.

....Well there are 750 gig drives coming out - I guess a good defragger will arise

Cheers yall

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