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best defrag tool or method?
I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my
disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? |
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best defrag tool or method?
The windows defragmenter is sufficient.
There is very little performance improvement after defragging. "Paul" wrote in message . .. I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? |
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Actually in todays pc world one should defrag almost daily.........Thier are
various methods however.1st,one must run diskclean up,the best way is to go to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGESET In the new properties window select all,close out.Return to run type:CLEANMGR /SAGERUN After this,you should run clean up in cmd,Type:CLEANMGR Once thru typeefrag C: About every week,in system properties,select "no page file " for C: Close out restart pc. Back in xp,run the 2 cmds in cmd,after reinstall page file.With this method,you will see the diffrence................ "Paul" wrote: I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? |
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Andrew - What exactly, are you smoking?
To the OP: If you are seeing little difference, then most likely your files are not that fragmented. Unless you do a lot of installs/uninstalls, downloading, moving files, etc, on a regular basis, you do not need to defrag very often, once a month would probably be more than enough. -- Don "Andrew E." wrote in message ... Actually in todays pc world one should defrag almost daily.........Thier are various methods however.1st,one must run diskclean up,the best way is to go to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGESET In the new properties window select all,close out.Return to run type:CLEANMGR /SAGERUN After this,you should run clean up in cmd,Type:CLEANMGR Once thru typeefrag C: About every week,in system properties,select "no page file " for C: Close out restart pc. Back in xp,run the 2 cmds in cmd,after reinstall page file.With this method,you will see the diffrence................ "Paul" wrote: I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? |
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best defrag tool or method?
I have tried XP defragger, full Diskeeper, Norton, and Perfect Disk. Except
for Perfect Disk (by Raxco), all are fairly slow every time. And, in as little as a day of seemingly doing nothing XP can show significant fragmentation. One difference is that Perfect disk settles for defragmenting files without trying to slide every file towards the front of the disk. It squeezes out most free space, but not all. Another difference is that it groups files by age, placing newest files towards the end of the contiguous disk space. Older files are placed nearer the beginning of the disk. Perfect Disk runs fairly slowly the first time, but then much faster on successive usages. And, fragmnetation between usages is mostly due to assorted XP temp files, system restore images, etc. These come and go and are hardly worth try to defrag much. Longer-lived system files (windows EXE and DLL) and user data get defragged and stay defragged. Now all that said, on a modern computer you would have to have a high percentage of fragmented files to impact the performance. Even if the multi-color fragmentation maps have a lot of red, fragmentation may not be a serious hit on performance. Remember that those maps are not fine enough to accurately distinguish between a few big files each in two pieces versus thousands of little files each in many pieces. If overall performance is not what you want after using any of the above mentioned defragger, then look elsewhere to improve it. For example, add RAM. XP loves RAM. Separate user data from system files by placing all user data on a separate partition, or even a separate physical disk. If you have video on the motherboard, get a separate video card. CPU speed is rarely an issue for most things, except processing video. Likewise RAM speed is not something that a user will sense. Faster disks might help. But, if the disk controllers on the motherboard are less than ATA/100, you could install a separate PCI-to-ATA controller, then the faster disks. All modern disks support at least ATA-100. If you get new disks, go for a large cache memory on the disks. And, even ATA disks of any sort are becoming a bit obsolete. The newest thing seems to be SATA, which can be much faster. They come in two speeds, relative to the ATA/100, SATA-150 and SATA-300. Of course, they need SATA controllers, not ATA controllers, but again there are PCI cards for that. As for file opening, much of that may be overhead to open the program that opens the file. I find WORD to be especially slow to open, independent of file size or disk fragmentation. "Paul" wrote in message . .. I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? |
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'Andrew E. wrote, part:
| Actually in todays pc world one should defrag almost daily.........Thier are | various methods however.1st _____ As usual, 'Andrew E.' manages to post worthless information in reply to questions he does not under stand. When using Windows NTFS as the file system, 5% ~ 7% fragmentation does no harm; get up above 10 % and you begin to observer slower file loads. After defragmentation some files will continued to be fragmented, 'System Restore' points are crammed in to take advantage small bits of free space, as the files are rarely used, and then only once, so they don't need to load quickly. This type of 'intelligent' storage of seldom used files saves larger free space chunks that do benefit from contiguous space. The advice from 'Andrew E." is more a mismosh things heard in pre NTFS days when hard drive had capacities in the 10s of MBytes. Phil Weldon "Andrew E." wrote in message ... | Actually in todays pc world one should defrag almost daily.........Thier are | various methods however.1st,one must run diskclean up,the best way is to | go to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGESET In the new properties window select | all,close out.Return to run type:CLEANMGR /SAGERUN After this,you should | run clean up in cmd,Type:CLEANMGR Once thru typeefrag C: About every | week,in system properties,select "no page file " for C: Close out restart | pc. | Back in xp,run the 2 cmds in cmd,after reinstall page file.With this | method,you | will see the diffrence................ | | "Paul" wrote: | | I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my | disk. | | I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or | two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or | the drive map fragmentation. | | What works better and is free or trial? | | | |
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"Bob Harris" wrote in message
... I have tried XP defragger, full Diskeeper, Norton, and Perfect Disk. Except for Perfect Disk (by Raxco), all are fairly slow every time. And, in as little as a day of seemingly doing nothing XP can show significant fragmentation. One difference is that Perfect disk settles for defragmenting files without trying to slide every file towards the front of the disk. It squeezes out most free space, but not all. Another difference is that it groups files by age, placing newest files towards the end of the contiguous disk space. Older files are placed nearer the beginning of the disk. Perfect Disk runs fairly slowly the first time, but then much faster on successive usages. And, fragmnetation between usages is mostly due to assorted XP temp files, system restore images, etc. These come and go and are hardly worth try to defrag much. Longer-lived system files (windows EXE and DLL) and user data get defragged and stay defragged. Now all that said, on a modern computer you would have to have a high percentage of fragmented files to impact the performance. Even if the multi-color fragmentation maps have a lot of red, fragmentation may not be a serious hit on performance. Remember that those maps are not fine enough to accurately distinguish between a few big files each in two pieces versus thousands of little files each in many pieces. If overall performance is not what you want after using any of the above mentioned defragger, then look elsewhere to improve it. For example, add RAM. XP loves RAM. Separate user data from system files by placing all user data on a separate partition, or even a separate physical disk. If you have video on the motherboard, get a separate video card. CPU speed is rarely an issue for most things, except processing video. Likewise RAM speed is not something that a user will sense. Faster disks might help. But, if the disk controllers on the motherboard are less than ATA/100, you could install a separate PCI-to-ATA controller, then the faster disks. All modern disks support at least ATA-100. If you get new disks, go for a large cache memory on the disks. And, even ATA disks of any sort are becoming a bit obsolete. The newest thing seems to be SATA, which can be much faster. They come in two speeds, relative to the ATA/100, SATA-150 and SATA-300. Of course, they need SATA controllers, not ATA controllers, but again there are PCI cards for that. As for file opening, much of that may be overhead to open the program that opens the file. I find WORD to be especially slow to open, independent of file size or disk fragmentation. Thanks for your most helpful explanation and advice. The problem I am trying to solve is the slowness with which the system operates. I regularly run spybot and adaware and defrag. I am very tempted to use a newly purchased hard drive to reinstall everything and start over. Ideally, there would be a program where you could clone the system you have and move it to a new hard drive and that emliminate the speed issues and defrag at the same time. Thanks again/ |
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Paul wrote:
"Bob Harris" wrote in message ... I have tried XP defragger, full Diskeeper, Norton, and Perfect Disk. Except for Perfect Disk (by Raxco), all are fairly slow every time. And, in as little as a day of seemingly doing nothing XP can show significant fragmentation. One difference is that Perfect disk settles for defragmenting files without trying to slide every file towards the front of the disk. It squeezes out most free space, but not all. Another difference is that it groups files by age, placing newest files towards the end of the contiguous disk space. Older files are placed nearer the beginning of the disk. Perfect Disk runs fairly slowly the first time, but then much faster on successive usages. And, fragmnetation between usages is mostly due to assorted XP temp files, system restore images, etc. These come and go and are hardly worth try to defrag much. Longer-lived system files (windows EXE and DLL) and user data get defragged and stay defragged. Now all that said, on a modern computer you would have to have a high percentage of fragmented files to impact the performance. Even if the multi-color fragmentation maps have a lot of red, fragmentation may not be a serious hit on performance. Remember that those maps are not fine enough to accurately distinguish between a few big files each in two pieces versus thousands of little files each in many pieces. If overall performance is not what you want after using any of the above mentioned defragger, then look elsewhere to improve it. For example, add RAM. XP loves RAM. Separate user data from system files by placing all user data on a separate partition, or even a separate physical disk. If you have video on the motherboard, get a separate video card. CPU speed is rarely an issue for most things, except processing video. Likewise RAM speed is not something that a user will sense. Faster disks might help. But, if the disk controllers on the motherboard are less than ATA/100, you could install a separate PCI-to-ATA controller, then the faster disks. All modern disks support at least ATA-100. If you get new disks, go for a large cache memory on the disks. And, even ATA disks of any sort are becoming a bit obsolete. The newest thing seems to be SATA, which can be much faster. They come in two speeds, relative to the ATA/100, SATA-150 and SATA-300. Of course, they need SATA controllers, not ATA controllers, but again there are PCI cards for that. As for file opening, much of that may be overhead to open the program that opens the file. I find WORD to be especially slow to open, independent of file size or disk fragmentation. Thanks for your most helpful explanation and advice. The problem I am trying to solve is the slowness with which the system operates. I regularly run spybot and adaware and defrag. I am very tempted to use a newly purchased hard drive to reinstall everything and start over. Ideally, there would be a program where you could clone the system you have and move it to a new hard drive and that emliminate the speed issues and defrag at the same time. Thanks again/ I am still using Diskeeper version 8 and it defrags my 120 gig drive pretty fast, perhaps their is a problem with your files for diskeeper, have you tried uninstalling it and a reinstall? -- Mike Pawlak |
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"MAP" wrote in message
... Paul wrote: "Bob Harris" wrote in message ... I have tried XP defragger, full Diskeeper, Norton, and Perfect Disk. Except for Perfect Disk (by Raxco), all are fairly slow every time. And, in as little as a day of seemingly doing nothing XP can show significant fragmentation. One difference is that Perfect disk settles for defragmenting files without trying to slide every file towards the front of the disk. It squeezes out most free space, but not all. Another difference is that it groups files by age, placing newest files towards the end of the contiguous disk space. Older files are placed nearer the beginning of the disk. Perfect Disk runs fairly slowly the first time, but then much faster on successive usages. And, fragmnetation between usages is mostly due to assorted XP temp files, system restore images, etc. These come and go and are hardly worth try to defrag much. Longer-lived system files (windows EXE and DLL) and user data get defragged and stay defragged. Now all that said, on a modern computer you would have to have a high percentage of fragmented files to impact the performance. Even if the multi-color fragmentation maps have a lot of red, fragmentation may not be a serious hit on performance. Remember that those maps are not fine enough to accurately distinguish between a few big files each in two pieces versus thousands of little files each in many pieces. If overall performance is not what you want after using any of the above mentioned defragger, then look elsewhere to improve it. For example, add RAM. XP loves RAM. Separate user data from system files by placing all user data on a separate partition, or even a separate physical disk. If you have video on the motherboard, get a separate video card. CPU speed is rarely an issue for most things, except processing video. Likewise RAM speed is not something that a user will sense. Faster disks might help. But, if the disk controllers on the motherboard are less than ATA/100, you could install a separate PCI-to-ATA controller, then the faster disks. All modern disks support at least ATA-100. If you get new disks, go for a large cache memory on the disks. And, even ATA disks of any sort are becoming a bit obsolete. The newest thing seems to be SATA, which can be much faster. They come in two speeds, relative to the ATA/100, SATA-150 and SATA-300. Of course, they need SATA controllers, not ATA controllers, but again there are PCI cards for that. As for file opening, much of that may be overhead to open the program that opens the file. I find WORD to be especially slow to open, independent of file size or disk fragmentation. Thanks for your most helpful explanation and advice. The problem I am trying to solve is the slowness with which the system operates. I regularly run spybot and adaware and defrag. I am very tempted to use a newly purchased hard drive to reinstall everything and start over. Ideally, there would be a program where you could clone the system you have and move it to a new hard drive and that emliminate the speed issues and defrag at the same time. Thanks again/ I am still using Diskeeper version 8 and it defrags my 120 gig drive pretty fast, perhaps their is a problem with your files for diskeeper, have you tried uninstalling it and a reinstall? Uninstall & reinstall Diskkeeper? How would that help(asking seriously so I understand)? |
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best defrag tool or method?
"Paul" wrote in message . .. I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my disk. I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or the drive map fragmentation. What works better and is free or trial? Hi Paul If I have missed this idea, I apologise. I have seen in these groups, but alas, for moment I cannot find the post, that some AVs are so intrusive that they hold-up defrag. I have no idea why, but nearly two years ago, I suffered from slow defrag. I had McAfee AV on a system with 60GB and 20% free space. It was suggested I went off-line/disconnected from the net and disabled the AV. I can confirm defrag was much quicker. And DiskCleanup was faster too. Rgds Antioch |
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