March 26th 09, 07:03 PM
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Defrag Tools
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JS
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"Gerry" wrote in message
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JS
What was the cluster size on the FAT32 partition?
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Gerry
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JS wrote:
Thanks,
I'll try it on one of my NTFS partitions.
"Gerry" wrote in message
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JS
No not normally but all my testing has been on NTFS formatted disks.
It has never taken an exceptionally long time. My disks would never,
however, present the type of challenge that I have seen others bring
to these newsgroups. BTW Defraggler works equally well in Vista but
most of my use has been with Windows XP.
If you have multi fragmented very large files I would tackle the
small files before taking on a big one. Also eliminate temporary
files using cCleaner first. It is quite a bit quicker than Disk
Defragmenter --
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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JS wrote:
Gerry
Based on your earlier post I downloaded
Defraggler to evaluate it also.
The test PC had a clean install of XP SP3
plus a bunch of test and diagnostic utilities
as this is a new PC I just finished building.
Drive is FAT32 with 26% used and highly
fragmented. Running Defraggler now and it
taking what appears to be an awful long time
an still is only 50% complete.
Do you find that Defraggler is also slow?
"Gerry" wrote in message
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Leo
None that are worth paying for! In most situations the Disk
Defragmenter coming with Windows XP does a perfectly adequate job.
Remember it is important to run Disk CleanUp ( or better still
cCleaner ) before Disk Defragmenter to get the best results.
Where there is a large fragmented file and limited free disk space
Defraggler is useful. You can defragment individual files.
An interesting relatively new entrant to the market is Defraggler
(freeware for home users) which I am currently testing. It is worth
looking at and does not with any negative reports. It also comes
from the software house providing cCleaner:
http://www.defraggler.com/features
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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...... wrote:
Hi,
Which is the best defrag tool (free/paid)?
Whats the advantage of using a third-party defrag tool over
Windows built-in tool?
regards
Leo
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