Norton System Works & XP

[James Bell]

I have used Norton System Works since Windows 98. I recently upgraded to
XP. I say up graded, but I totally cleared and reformatted my drive to NTFS
format and did a complete new install. Anyway. I use the disk optimization
monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the drive is. Since
going to XP it seems fragmentation occurs unbelievably fast! I can run
speed disk, and the next day be 25% fragged out. This has never happened,
it does it on both my hard drives. I would seemingly have to run Speed Disk
every other day to keep up! Is this a bug in XP or System Works? or is it
really that prone to disk fragmentation? Any ideas would be great. Thanks.
James

[sqr]

>I can run speed disk,

NEVER, I say never run this in windows XP especially when using NTFS.

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"James Bell" > wrote in message
k.net...
> I have used Norton System Works since Windows 98. I recently upgraded to
> XP. I say up graded, but I totally cleared and reformatted my drive to
NTFS
> format and did a complete new install. Anyway. I use the disk
optimization
> monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the drive is. Since
> going to XP it seems fragmentation occurs unbelievably fast! I can run
> speed disk, and the next day be 25% fragged out. This has never happened,
> it does it on both my hard drives. I would seemingly have to run Speed
Disk
> every other day to keep up! Is this a bug in XP or System Works? or is
it
> really that prone to disk fragmentation? Any ideas would be great.
Thanks.
> James
>
>

[Ashley Heath]

Is there any particular reason not to run SpeedDisk in XP
with NTFS? I've been running it for quite some time now
and haven't had any issues.

Thanks,
Ash

>-----Original Message-----
> >I can run speed disk,
>
>NEVER, I say never run this in windows XP especially
when using NTFS.
>
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>sqr
>Overseer: alt.os.windows-xp
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>ftp://sqr.myftp.biz
>http://sqr.servebeer.com
>
>
>"James Bell" > wrote
in message
>news:pXwXa.102
...
>> I have used Norton System Works since Windows 98. I
recently upgraded to
>> XP. I say up graded, but I totally cleared and
reformatted my drive to
>NTFS
>> format and did a complete new install. Anyway. I use
the disk
>optimization
>> monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the
drive is. Since
>> going to XP it seems fragmentation occurs unbelievably
fast! I can run
>> speed disk, and the next day be 25% fragged out. This
has never happened,
>> it does it on both my hard drives. I would seemingly
have to run Speed
>Disk
>> every other day to keep up! Is this a bug in XP or
System Works? or is
>it
>> really that prone to disk fragmentation? Any ideas
would be great.
>Thanks.
>> James
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Shadow of James]

Never? I have not seen any adverse affects, other than it does not last 24
hours. Please explain further.

"sqr" > wrote in message
...
> >I can run speed disk,
>
> NEVER, I say never run this in windows XP especially when using NTFS.
>
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> sqr
> Overseer: alt.os.windows-xp
> --
> ftp://sqr.myftp.biz
> http://sqr.servebeer.com
>
>
> "James Bell" > wrote in message
> k.net...
> > I have used Norton System Works since Windows 98. I recently upgraded
to
> > XP. I say up graded, but I totally cleared and reformatted my drive to
> NTFS
> > format and did a complete new install. Anyway. I use the disk
> optimization
> > monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the drive is. Since
> > going to XP it seems fragmentation occurs unbelievably fast! I can run
> > speed disk, and the next day be 25% fragged out. This has never
happened,
> > it does it on both my hard drives. I would seemingly have to run Speed
> Disk
> > every other day to keep up! Is this a bug in XP or System Works? or is
> it
> > really that prone to disk fragmentation? Any ideas would be great.
> Thanks.
> > James
> >
> >
>
>
>

[DT]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:43:49 GMT, "James Bell"
> wrote:

> I use the disk optimization
>monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the drive is.

System Doctor and XP don't get along to well. I have long since
disabled it. Once a month I use Speed disk and analyze my disks and
partitions. I don't do much unless there is 25-30 percent of
fragmenting. With the higher speed of disks and the large sizes,
defrag is not the problem it once was, in fact some people state that
defrag is a waste of time. I don't believe that, but the point being
that it is not a critical issue.

Speed disk will never get the defrag down to 0 percent.

I have used Norton since Peter Norton designed it and put it on the
market.

Dave

[Michael J. Gregg]

You do not need to defragment Windows XP like you did in 9x.

Plus, I would use Windows XP Defrag, Norton has screwed things up for me. I
basically only use Norton Anti-Virus.


"James Bell" > wrote in message
k.net...
> I have used Norton System Works since Windows 98. I recently upgraded to
> XP. I say up graded, but I totally cleared and reformatted my drive to
NTFS
> format and did a complete new install. Anyway. I use the disk
optimization
> monitor in System Doctor to watch how "fragmented" the drive is. Since
> going to XP it seems fragmentation occurs unbelievably fast! I can run
> speed disk, and the next day be 25% fragged out. This has never happened,
> it does it on both my hard drives. I would seemingly have to run Speed
Disk
> every other day to keep up! Is this a bug in XP or System Works? or is
it
> really that prone to disk fragmentation? Any ideas would be great.
Thanks.
> James
>
>