Defragmenting

magicroundabout

magicroundabout

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hi all,

recently i've had to format my machine a lot lately and upgrade various parts and just recently moved to i7 and again needed to format.

So i've been a bit lax on defragmenting the HDD so set it running last night and it took just over 11 hours to defrag my HDD. :eek:

I'm assuming this took forever because i've not done it in an age or is this normal with Vista's defrag system?

If it is normal could someone recomend a defrag programme to use instead.
 
Vista's defrag is terrible, but that does sound a little too long...

I have used Defraggler in the past and it knock's Vista's defrag into a... well, you get the idea!

You can get it here.
 
magicroundabout said:
I'm assuming this took forever because i've not done it in an age or is this normal with Vista's defrag system?
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Vista's defragger is slow, but it was designed that way - it works at a low priority in the background, allowing you to get on with actually *using* your computer in the meantime, as opposed to sitting with a glazed expression watching little coloured blocks being shuffled around.

Personally I've never seen any convincing evidence that third-party defraggers do a better job of actually improving a PC's performance, hence I don't bother with them.
 
I use Vista's defragger. I have it scheduled to defrag every sunday at midnight. On my previous XP Machine I used diskeeper and set a smart schedule that defragged when it thought it needed doing.
 
Diskeeper was great. Shame I can't get it to run on vista.

Is there anyway to see any fragmentation reports and progress report for vista defragger?
 
Raxco Perfect Disk 10 will run on Vista (32/64-bit). It is light years better than the competition. It chews up Tb drives in no time and copes with HDs that are completely chock-a-block full as well!! :cool:

The defragmenter in Tuneup Utilities 2008/9 is a dark horse for a close second place!!

I have tried out the other main competitors and they were all found seriously wanting in some or all aspects...

Bob
 
Diskeeper 2007 and above versions work on Vista, but the best one ofcourse is the current one i.e 2009.
I used to run DK 2009 pro when i had Vista, and it was excellent.

If system restore/shadow copy service is enabled on the vista volume, pick a defragger that supports VSS compatible defrag, otherwise there is a risk of losing older system restore points.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090412084158AAQeM2k
 
FaceplantSi said:
Vista's defrag is terrible, but that does sound a little too long...

I have used Defraggler in the past and it knock's Vista's defrag into a... well, you get the idea!

You can get it here.
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Terrible software, downloadd it last night. Start it at half 12 and it finnished at 6 today on a 750GB hardrive with about 350GB of stuff on it.

Thats terrible tbh the hard drive is only a fwe months old.
 
Like I said before the best defragmenter on the market for, NTFS partitions, is Perfect Disk. I remember trying out Diskeeper 9/10 and it wouldn't let me defragment a drive because it had less than 20% free space - what a joke!! It has always lagged behind Perfect Disk development. Even Perfect Disk 6 (from years ago) is still good for Windows XP. It would defragment a volume with only a few Mb of free space.

The latest version of Perfect Disk (10) is Vista ready and has all kinds of nifty features. For example background defragmenting drives when the machine is idle - where you can actually define what "idle" means!! :cool:

Bob
 
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