Daave wrote:
M wrote:
Daave wrote:
M wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
M wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Defragmenting the hard drive, even a heavily fragmented one, will
not improve efficiency.
It makes XP boot faster.
I don't think so. The second thing that has to load is NTFS and it,
in turn, then loads everything it needs for subsequent access.
Everything.
I've timed it numerous times on many machines and it boots faster.
Out of curiosity, how much faster did these machines boot?

That depended on how badly fragmented it was which could mean up to a
minute less boot time.

That's pretty significant!



The machine in question was so badly fragmented that you couldn't see
any blue in the defrag app, just red and it had over 15,000 fragmented
files. Even the defrag recommended defragging it. It took about 25
passes with the XP scrolling bar before it went to the Welcome screen.
After defragmenting, it went down to six passes.

Most machines only see 5 to 10 second improvements.

M