What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFS and FAT drives/partitions?
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From: Arno on 25 Nov 2009 18:13 Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: > Hi! > Are there any good free disk disk defraggers that can be run outside of > Windows like with a boot disk/disc or before Windows is loaded? > Sometimes, files can't be defragged because of them being in used. > Thank you in advance. :) Separate second windows installation? Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: DevilsPGD on 25 Nov 2009 22:50 In message <AvOdnT2x9ahfOJDWnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com> Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> was claimed to have wrote: >Hi! > >Are there any good free disk disk defraggers that can be run outside of >Windows like with a boot disk/disc or before Windows is loaded? >Sometimes, files can't be defragged because of them being in used. > >Thank you in advance. :) Contig.
From: DevilsPGD on 28 Nov 2009 04:54 In message <5rGdnU9B4fPJnZPWnZ2dnUVZ_gFi4p2d(a)earthlink.com> Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> was claimed to have wrote: >On 11/25/2009 7:50 PM PT, DevilsPGD typed: > >>> Are there any good free disk disk defraggers that can be run outside of >>> Windows like with a boot disk/disc or before Windows is loaded? >>> Sometimes, files can't be defragged because of them being in used. >>> >>> Thank you in advance. :) >> >> Contig. > >http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx says only >for XP and higher. What about 2000 SP4? Can this defragger move >pagefile, MFT, etc. too? Contig was supported on NT4 and Windows 2000 back in the day, but I don't run any legacy OSes here so I can't speak to the current state of affairs. Worst case, you'll need to snag an older version of Contig.
From: Don Lope de Aguirre on 11 Dec 2009 09:47 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:7n6eooF3ibh58U1(a)mid.individual.net... > There is no point in furiously defragging anymore. How about defragging once a month at least? If it is now useless then why does both Vista and Win7 have tasks auto set to defrag once per week? It seems that Microsoft disagrees with you.
From: Rod Speed on 11 Dec 2009 13:24
Don Lope de Aguirre wrote > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> There is no point in furiously defragging anymore. > How about defragging once a month at least? There are very few systems that benefit at all from anything like as high a defrag rate as that. > If it is now useless then why does both Vista and Win7 have tasks auto set to defrag once per week? There are plenty who cant grasp that defragging most modern systems is pointless. > It seems that Microsoft disagrees with you. Yes, but then they have done that in the past and ended up doing it my way too, most obviously with sleeping hard drives by default. What matters is that there are very few situations where extra seeks due to fragmentation are even detectable by the user in a proper double blind trial. The vast bulk of linear access to large files is with media files where the speed of access to the file is entirely dependant on the media play speed and so extra seeks arent even visible at all. The bulk of other access to large files is not linear, most obviously with databases, so there arent even any extra seeks at all with those. One situation where you do see extra seeks matter is copying very large files, most obviously video files, but it makes a lot more sense to avoid copying those than to furiously defrag to improve the speed of copying those files. Similarly with backups, it makes a lot more sense to do the backups in the background or when the system is not being used than to furiously defrag or even defrag monthly. |