Defrag help?

manoz · 24 Jun 2007 at 00:17

I thought I'd defrag my c: drive (2 x hitachi 80gb in RAID 0). Anyone know why there's a big gap near the beginning of the disk, isn't defrag meant to fix that or should I not worry?

fobose · 24 Jun 2007 at 00:29

Dont worry.

JackRegan · 24 Jun 2007 at 11:17

For free you can't beat Auslogics - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag.shtml

Otherwise Perfect Disk would sort that out.

Jack

manoz · 24 Jun 2007 at 13:25

JackRegan said:
For free you can't beat Auslogics - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag.shtml

Otherwise Perfect Disk would sort that out.

Jack

Tried it but didn't fix that space, it did however label it as MFT, another 3 letter acronym which frightens me

I'll take fobose's advice and not worry about it.

fobose · 24 Jun 2007 at 13:46

It means Master File Table.

the Master File Table or MFT is the place where information about every file and directory on an NTFS volume is stored.

JackRegan · 24 Jun 2007 at 15:41

Auslogics will only sort out your defragmented files, but you need a program like Perfect Disk to arranage smart placement of files, ie compact your files. It will also defrag your offline files like the MFT and move it to the the end of your drive.

Jack

fobose · 24 Jun 2007 at 17:41

I use diskeeper, its good enough for me and it lets you schedule defrags (and boot time defrags too) - I have mine set for when I am asleep ;D