Boot drive needs defragging everyday!

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Hey!

The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be defragged
nearly every day...the other two partitions (named "programs" and
"games") don't need to be defragged very often at all.

I'm running Win98SE with this HW:

Athlon 2400 (not OC'ed)
512mb PC2100
Audigy 2
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb

None of the above HW is being OC'ed.

So, what might be giong on? The HD is only 7 months old!

Oh, and it is running at ATA100 speed (since installing an ATA100
cable a few months ago).

Faustus


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windows 98 has that analyze feature/...as stupid as it was...........
so most likely that is what he is using to determine the need..... OP
if your playing games on your system, the temp directories that come
and go could trigger 98's need for defrag....games AWA any software
that creates scratch areas or temp directories.although you could
follow its recommendation, there really isn't any 'need' to defrag
that often. set up a separate partition for your swap and temp
directories and just defrag that partition.
 
JAD said:
windows 98 has that analyze feature/...as stupid as it was...........
so most likely that is what he is using to determine the need.....
Click to expand...

FWIW, I asked *him* what made *him* think that it needs defragging. We
can guess all day and night. I can guess as well as you can. I'd
rather just hear his answer.
 
The problem may be Diskkeeper, not the hardrive. I wanted a better
defrag utility about a year ago and did a Google search on Diskkeeper. I
came across many negative opinions on Diskkeeper. One of the common
complaints was that it gave exaggerated reports on fragmentation. I
didn't put it on my machine, so I can't speak from personal experience.
 
Another problem which can cause this is in windows defrag having the box
checked that says "rearrange files so my programs start faster". You should
uncheck this option and then defrag afterwards and you probably won't need to
defrag again for a while.
 
Hey!

The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be defragged
nearly every day...the other two partitions (named "programs" and
"games") don't need to be defragged very often at all.

I'm running Win98SE with this HW:

Athlon 2400 (not OC'ed)
512mb PC2100
Audigy 2
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb

None of the above HW is being OC'ed.

So, what might be giong on? The HD is only 7 months old!

Oh, and it is running at ATA100 speed (since installing an ATA100
cable a few months ago).

Faustus


Dave King -- Faustus
HomePage | http://home.earthlink.net/~davidkinghsd/index.html
ICQ : 329002
Click to expand...

Hey!

I've installed XP Pro today and hopefully my Audigy2 and Firefox (the
two progs that seem to be fragging my C parition) will behae better
under XP than with Win98SE...heh

Faustus



Dave King -- Faustus
HomePage | http://home.earthlink.net/~davidkinghsd/index.html
ICQ : 329002
 
What makes you think your disk needs defragged every day? Some fragmentation
is inevitable and normal.
 
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