Defragmentation

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tony

When I try to defragm my "c" drive, it reads drive
information, then tells me that files have changed and it
restarts, telling me to close other programmes, even
though I am not running any. Has anyone got any
suggestions?
 
Are you running XP? I've seen this problem often enough
in Win9x/Me, but not in XP.

Also, the built in defragger in XP is crap. Get a thrid
party proggie like Raxco's PerfectDisk. I ran WinXP's
defragger and still had about 30% fragmentation, while
the last time I ran PerfectDisk was about a month ago,
and I'm only up to 1.3% fragmentation.

Cheers,

Nick
 
BTW, the Windows XP Defrag program works perfectly fine
and my experience with 3rd Party defraggers is less than
optimal.
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The Windows defragger works well enough, but it doesn't
handle system hidden files (like those that are made my
Norton Internet Security 2004) or on drives that are
getting filled and emptied constantly. I had a 40GB HD
(in real life 38) that I had partitioned into 10/10/8/10.
The last 10 gigs were used for video editing and other
temporary files that would often fill the partition to
the brim. The Windows defragger wouldn't even touch this
when I only had 3% free on the partition, and when I
cleared the drive so that I had 40% free, Windows left it
with 22% fragmentation after passing through once in
normal mode and once in safe mode.

Like I said before, I ran PerfectDisk a while ago, and
everything is still in really nice shape now.

Nick
 
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