defragment tools

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Mingo said:
I'm looking for a good defragmentation tools, any suggestions?
TIA!
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O&O Defrag is a pretty good one, dedicated defrag program.
Tune Up Utilities 2008 has one built in with other utilities.

Both display the screen of square blocks rather than the vertical lines
like XP's defrag.
 
Brian A. said:
If you would like one that runs in the background, see:
www.diskeeper.com
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Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If
you switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever
you analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely
fragmented even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely
can't be right.

Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.
 
Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If
you switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever
you analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely
fragmented even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely
can't be right.

Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.
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Google for and try using CCleaner and Defraggler .
 
The Todal said:
Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If you
switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever you
analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely fragmented
even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely can't be right.
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I've not run into that yet and I have auto defrag off on a a few
drives/partitions.
Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.
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I don't and never have used Turnpike Mail, sorry to hear that. Yet it's
another example of why backups/images are of the upmost importance to any PC
user.


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