[nethex]

Vopt XP - very fast and defragment tool. I'm use it already about two years.

[Zxian]

I just switched to Diskeeper on my laptop. Goodbye to manual defrag passes...

[Monk Psycho]

Well I started using Diskeeper and Perfect Disk today.
The onlt good thing about PD is that it has offline defragmentation which, judging by me, does slightly better work than DK boot defrag

[Aegis]

Switching file systems might be a good idea as well. Some high-performance file systems such as HFS+ and XFS have built-in features that prevent files from fragmenting 99% of the time.

[Jeremy]

Monk Psycho, on Aug 22 2006, 02:44 PM, said:

Well I started using Diskeeper and Perfect Disk today.
The onlt good thing about PD is that it has offline defragmentation which, judging by me, does slightly better work than DK boot defrag

Having two defragmentation programs isn't necessarily the best idea. Both programs have different ways of managing files, therefor it would essentially be a tug-of-war battle between DK and PD. Even though it may seem like a good idea, it will probably cause more harm than good.

[Zxian]

Aegis, on Aug 22 2006, 12:06 PM, said:

Switching file systems might be a good idea as well. Some high-performance file systems such as HFS+ and XFS have built-in features that prevent files from fragmenting 99% of the time.

Unfortunately, getting XP to install on anything other than FAT32 or NTFS is pretty hard to do...

[Aegis]

You can have one partition for all of your system files, then another partition based on an alternative FS for your program files and anything else that frequently fragments.

[DigeratiPrime]

@Aegis hmm thats something Ive not considered. So XP for example could read a partition with a different filesystem say HFS+ or XFS? Would that require additional software? And what filesystem would you reccomend?

[edit] from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

Quote

For Windows/Linux dual boot systems, one disadvantage of XFS is that it cannot be read from Windows, unlike the older ext2/3 Linux filesystems.

[Aegis]

There's many programs to read/write from HFS+ though. Even though this particular one isn't free, I find that MacDrive is the most convenient since it even mounts the HFS+ partition as a drive in Windows Explorer. I'm sure there's also some freeware software that offers similar functionality, but this is the only one I've tried.

Here's a comparison between fragmentation in HFS+ and NTFS:

http://www.kernelthr.../fragmentation/

The G5 system has more than 95% of its disk space used up, yet it only has 42 fragments. For a non-boot drive, that G5 system with similar disk space usage contains 3 fragments. Keep in mind this is without using any fragmentation software.

[commanddotcom]

hi everyone,

when it comes to defrag, i always recommend diskeeper.

my computer consulting firm has about 600 clients. often we get called regarding "healthy" PCs that seems to run slow. after extensive research, we went with diskeeper.

besides all the other great feature, the makers of diskeeper actually created the defrag that comes with microsoft windows! so, the way i see it, they would know the best about how the windows operating system works and how best to defrag the files it contains!

This post has been edited by commanddotcom: 24 August 2006 - 11:45 AM

[Aegis]

Furthermore, not only did they develop the Microsoft defragging tool, but they codeveloped (with Microsoft) the defragging API within Windows itself. All other defragging tools (PD included) use that very API.

[Andromeda43]

Defrags can be lengthy and never quite do the good job that the old Windows ME Defrag did.

I no longer Defrag.
Before you start flaming me, let me continue.

I use Ghost 2003, run from a boot disk to backup my system (C:) at least twice a week.
With my SATA HD that only takes me slighly over 4 minutes.
Then without rebooting, I do an immediate Restore of the image file back to C:.

All the files are written in sequence as if writing to a brand new HD. This also takes about 4 min's and all files are written with NO spaces and NO fragmentation.
In less than ten minutes, I've done a backup and one heck of a fabulous defrag.
When I'm done, my HD looks like this, when viewed by Windows Defrag Analysis.



The green area is the Windows Pagefile, re-created by Windows XP on the first boot after the backup and restore. I erase it before I do my backup, to save space in the backup image file.

Cheers!
Andromeda43

This post has been edited by Andromeda43: 29 August 2006 - 02:00 PM

[MagicAndre1981]

O&O defrag,

nothing else is better

[Jeremy]

Post made it's own thread

This post has been edited by Jeremy: 04 September 2006 - 10:22 AM

[Kamus]

I use Diskeeper 10 Pro, and is the best!!!

but I don't like the services that install.

[Aegis]

Haven't had fragmentation problems for some time now...

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[Jeremy]

Congratulations.

[ricktendo64]

@Kamus here is a vbs file that will turn off Diskeepers services whaen you are using vmware or nlite

 
sService ="Diskeeper"


Set bInstance = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}//" & "." & _
"/root/cimv2:Win32_Service=" & Chr(34) & sService & Chr(34))



if (bInstance.Properties_("State").Value = "Stopped") then


Set oOutParam = bInstance.ExecMethod_("StartService")

If oOutParam.ReturnValue = 0 Then
WScript.Echo bInstance.Name & " started successfully"
else
WScript.Echo bInstance.Name & " failed to start"
end if
else

if (bInstance.Properties_("State").Value = "Running") then

Set oOutParam = bInstance.ExecMethod_("StopService")

If oOutParam.ReturnValue = 0 Then
WScript.Echo bInstance.Name & " stopped successfully"
Else
WScript.Echo bInstance.Name & " failed to stop"

end if

end if

end if 

[sonu27]

Has anyone tried Auslogics Disk Defrag? It's FREE!

Well if anyone does, please let me know how much you rate it.

It's on del.icio.us popular.

[jhonty46]

Diskeeper is vey good defragmenter.