Vista defrag

box · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:51

Thought I'd give defrag a try today as I haven't done it since I last formatted which was some months ago, or since upgrading to Vista for that matter. I have to say my first impressions of the Vista defray utility are quite poor really. Even when using the improved SP1, there is no visual representation of the drive state like there was in XP, and it doesn't give you any idea of how complete the defrag is - not even a percentage complete.

I turned defrag on this morning and it displayed

Defragmenting hard disk (C...
This may take a few minutes or a few hours

Well, it has been 8 hours now, and it's still saying the same thing. Can anyone tell me what is going on?

Brizzles · 21 Mar 2008 at 19:53

I get the same , Vista x64 , i don't know whether it is actually doing anything !

Much preffered a visual of some sort.

Mark

box · 21 Mar 2008 at 20:01

Hard disk is definately doing something, but I haven't got the free time to leave the PC out of action for 10+ hours.

Thebug · 21 Mar 2008 at 20:16

Try this it does mine in about ten mins.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

Priapus · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:12

Get O&O Defrag. I'm using Version 10 Professional. Much, much better then the built in defraging application.

Deluxe1 · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:15

i use O&O defrag aswell,good at what it does.

tonyf1971 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:58

i have been using Perfect disk since version 8 swapped over from Disk Keeper 10, PD8 found fragmentation that DK10 missed/didnt defrag.

PD is now on version 2008 you can download a 30day trial and see if it suits your needs

Albo · 22 Mar 2008 at 01:04

I use Auslogics

dbmzk1 · 22 Mar 2008 at 01:41

I use JKDefrag. Doesn't need installing. It's quite fast too. http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

asim18 · 22 Mar 2008 at 03:39

Thebug said:
Try this it does mine in about ten mins.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

I second that, takes under 10 mins, and it's free!

J.B · 22 Mar 2008 at 16:03

I used to use AUS logic on XP, have actually defrag Vista yet :eek:

Teki187 · 22 Mar 2008 at 16:16

Using O&O with 64 bit vista and its perfect.

Cosimo · 22 Mar 2008 at 16:23

I use PerfectDisk 2008 and it does the job very well.

lsg1r · 22 Mar 2008 at 16:26

originally used perfect disk (came with me from xp days) but that doesn't like offline defrag on vista x64 so got O&O defrag instead and that seems to work ok, its taking an age this time after the sp1 updates, should be quicker after that I hope

tonyf1971 · 22 Mar 2008 at 21:22

lsg1r said:
originally used perfect disk (came with me from xp days) but that doesn't like offline defrag on vista x64 so got O&O defrag instead and that seems to work ok, its taking an age this time after the sp1 updates, should be quicker after that I hope

The offline defrag for Perfect Disk 2008 has been fixed in the latest software update it now works fine under Vista x64