Best Defrag Tool?

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 01:59

I havn't defragged my PC since i got it ages ago - just ran the analyze tool on the built in one and it's almost solid red and I noticed the hdd seems to be hanging waiting for the hdd's (raid 0) a lot recently so i figured its time to fix it.

Been trying O&O defrag on trial but it fails to install the service and its driving my insane not working and the lack of support.

So question, what would you recommend to defrag a PC? Trial software will be fine just need to fix the hanging.

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 02:59

snowdog said:
Diskkeeper is good imo, but also needs a service to work, and perhaps try running 20 loops of windows defrag?

I'l see if Diskkeepers service will install.
Edit: Nope... wtf.

Will take a look at PerfectDisk too

Ty for suggestions.
Edit: PerfectDisk is working

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 13:48

WishI could get O&O working - I used it in the past and it was very good.

Now it seems to not install the service on any of the defraggers. PerfectDisk works fine though because it doesn't use a service.

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 17:34

greenlizard0 said:
Auslogics defrag is now what I use. Very very fast and very light to run as well. Highly recommended

Edit - and it's free too

I think this may be a long term solution, my little analyze graph has gone from 80% red to 0% red after 2 defrags

PC seems to be running muuurch smoother

Now to see if it works!

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 17:43

I would love to use O&O but it doesn't work!

Any ideas on fixing that would be appreciated too.

Auslogic is working fine - just removed over 110gb of un-encoded Fraps recordings now I have a huge hole in hdd. Defragging again usign Auslogic

Jaffa_Cake · 16 Jul 2007 at 18:12

MarcLister said:
Do you not see PDAgent and PDEngine running then? I have both on manual so they run when I run PerfectDisk but not before.

I didn't look when i was trying it. It said could not connect to service so I went and found O&O service and it wouldn't start.

Google turned up no answers either.

I think im addicted to defragging now - ran it 4 times just to make sure its still 0% fragmented files!

Thank you combination of PerfectDisk and Auslogic