New WD HD and fragments

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Hello!

I've installed a new WD 40 gig HD (7200 rpm with 8 mb cache) and am
running Win98SE. I formatted the new drive into three "FAT 32"
partitions: 3 gig (boot), 10 gig (progs) and the remaining gigs
(games).

I've been using DiskKeeper to analyze fragmentation and have noticed
that the C partition has been producing what I consider to be an
abnormal amount of fragments, abnormal, anyway, compared to my old WD
5200 rpm 30 gig HD.

Win98SE sees it via System properties as a WD ATA100 HD, BTW.

Besides defragging everyday, what could I do to alleviate this
problem?

Faustus


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Hello!

I've installed a new WD 40 gig HD (7200 rpm with 8 mb cache) and am
running Win98SE. I formatted the new drive into three "FAT 32"
partitions: 3 gig (boot), 10 gig (progs) and the remaining gigs
(games).

I've been using DiskKeeper to analyze fragmentation and have noticed
that the C partition has been producing what I consider to be an
abnormal amount of fragments, abnormal, anyway, compared to my old WD
5200 rpm 30 gig HD.

Win98SE sees it via System properties as a WD ATA100 HD, BTW.

Besides defragging everyday, what could I do to alleviate this
problem?
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If you have Diskeeper Professional, you can set "Set It and Forget It" to
defrag in what they call "screensaver mode" where when the computer becomes
inactive, it'll defrag in the background. You could even set the priority
of the background mode to just a notch higher and it'll do a better job
than the standard background defragging.

Personally, I doubt it's the HDD itself, but the writing and deleting going
on by various apps and the system.
 
Faustus said:
Hello!

I've installed a new WD 40 gig HD (7200 rpm with 8 mb cache) and am
running Win98SE. I formatted the new drive into three "FAT 32"
partitions: 3 gig (boot), 10 gig (progs) and the remaining gigs
(games).

I've been using DiskKeeper to analyze fragmentation and have noticed
that the C partition has been producing what I consider to be an
abnormal amount of fragments, abnormal, anyway, compared to my old WD
5200 rpm 30 gig HD.

Win98SE sees it via System properties as a WD ATA100 HD, BTW.

Besides defragging everyday, what could I do to alleviate this
problem?
Click to expand...

Are you "letting Windows manage your swapfile" ? Setting a permanent swapfile
with 200-300megs is one way of avoiding fragments.
 
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