Permanent Defrag?

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davetest

Hi there
How comes when i perform the defrag on my drive it takes all of 20secs to do
then i check defrag to see all is well and it tells me that my drive needs
defrag again?
any solutions would be appreciated/
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try doing it in safemode.
Dave
 
You need a reasonable amount of free space, defrag complains if you have
less than 15% but will still run if you force it, but not do a very good
job.

Defrag is actually a cut down version of Executive Softwares Diskeeper.
Find defrag.exe in \windows\system32 and look at its properties, you'' see
under the version tab, the company name is given as

Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc.

This cut down version is not bad, considering its free, but it cant

1.Defragment the page file
2. Defragment the MFT (MAster File Table)
3. Defragment folder files
4. Fully contiguise free space.

Diskeeper has lots of nice functionality, you can set it up to run in the
background when there are plenty of free resources and as it thinks is
necessary, an option they call "Set it and Forget it"
It will fully defragment all of the above by being able to run on reboot,
similar to the way chkdsk does.
It has its own scheduler if you want to run it regularly at set times.

Its very very good.

You can get a 30 day trial which has fully functionality. You don't often
get that with trialware these days.
http://www.execsoft.com/downloads/menu.asp

Have a play with it.

Paul
 
And I just noticed, your clock is 12 hours out, I was trying to figure out
why I haven't had any more posts since yours this morning, and then I
noticed I had, and they were all earlier !

Paul
 
"> 2. Defragment the MFT (MAster File Table)"

Under Windows XP, any defragmenter - including the built-in defragmenter -
can defragment the majority of the $MFT online (nobody can "move" the first
16 clusters of the $MFT).

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.
 
Do what I did. Delete the message.
Wes

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Paul B T Hodges said:
And I just noticed, your clock is 12 hours out, I was trying to figure out
why I haven't had any more posts since yours this morning, and then I
noticed I had, and they were all earlier !

Paul
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Hi there
How comes when i perform the defrag on my drive it takes all of 20secs to do
then i check defrag to see all is well and it tells me that my drive needs
defrag again?
any solutions would be appreciated/
 
Hey Greg,

Well I'm certainly not going to quibble over 64K of MFT :-)

My 30day trial of diskeeper expired yesterday. Is there a similar offering
of Perfect Disk to play with ?

Paul
 
Paul,

Yes, there is.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.
 
Hey Greg,

Do you have an address handy ?

Also I should correct myself. After checking some internals documentation,
the first 16 clusters of the MFT are only 1K each, irrespective of the
cluster size of the file system, so its 16K, not 64K.

Paul
 
Thats impressive.

Do you guys monitor newsgroups, or did you just happen to be passing :-)

Paul
 
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