Do you know what grinds my gears?

unclebob123 · 18 Mar 2008 at 16:21

the lack of a status bar in the vista defrag utility.

MarcLister · 18 Mar 2008 at 16:40

You could use something like Defraggler?
http://www.defraggler.com/

Stonedofmoo · 18 Mar 2008 at 16:42

unclebob123 said:
the lack of a status bar in the vista defrag utility.

Not it's horrendously slow speed? I did a fresh install of Vista on saturday and once I'd installed everything I ran defrag

It took it almost 7 hours!! That's about 20-30gigs of data tops on a WD Raptor RAID0 setup. Totally useless program :mad:

Cosimo · 18 Mar 2008 at 16:43

Get PerfectDisk 2008.

Irish_Tom · 18 Mar 2008 at 16:45

Diskeeper 2008 here - got a very reasonably priced upgrade from Diskeeper 9 Professional.

Panzer

unclebob123 · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:13

cheers guys. Ill check those out.

Just out of interest, has anyone had any files corrupted or the like from defragging?

JohnM · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:19

O&O Defrag 10 Pro.

GhostlyPea · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:20

I use Defraggler, works well for me and is pretty fast.

- Pea0n

Fothsn · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:24

They have updated the defragger in SP1, IMO its much quicker also lets you select the drives you want defragging, why do you need to see bars anyway? I believe Vistas defragger runs in the background when the PC is idle.

unclebob123 · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:28

It would just be nice to see how much progress it has actually made, especially when it takes hours and hours as Stonedofmoo mentioned.

Anyway im gonna give perfect disk a try.

Fothsn · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:33

unclebob123 said:
It would just be nice to see how much progress it has actually made, especially when it takes hours and hours as Stonedofmoo mentioned.

Anyway im gonna give perfect disk a try.

Is this the first time the HDD has being defragged? My initail defragg took around an hour now its no less than 10/20 mins (500Gb) 85Gb used.

unclebob123 · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:41

I defrag once a week, normally scheduling it over night but i thought I would manually do it this time before I install service pack 1. And its slllowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Fothsn · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:42

Ah okay, what are your system specs?

TheVoice · 18 Mar 2008 at 17:50

simulatorman said:
Get PerfectDisk 2008.

Agreed, great program.

unclebob123 · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:00

fothsn said:
Ah okay, what are your system specs?

My system specs are a quad Q6600 overclocked to 3.6ghz, BFG OC2 8800, 4GB of pc2 6400 RAM, and my system drive is a 200GB Segate drive (cant remember the model of the top of my head). This is all plugged in to a Abit IP35 pro motherboard.

Ive got perfect disc now. MUCH better.

Stonedofmoo · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:09

simulatorman said:
Get PerfectDisk 2008.

Thanks, I'm just trying it now.

First impressions aren't so great. The help file doesn't actually match up with the product and it crashed on the first boot time defrag.
But since then its got better.

I do like the fact it has a native x64 version

andshrew · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:10

unclebob123 said:
I defrag once a week, normally scheduling it over night but i thought I would manually do it this time before I install service pack 1. And its slllowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Its 'slow' by design as its mean't to run in the background in the lowest priority so that it doesn't interupt your use of the computer.

Stonedofmoo · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:12

andshrew said:
Its 'slow' by design as its mean't to run in the background in the lowest priority so that it doesn't interupt your use of the computer.

If you're talking about the Vista defrag program thats not true, if you look in device manager and processes you can see it runs at normal priority. In fact you can raise it to high priority and it's still slow.

It's slow by design alright, I suspect so it does not compete with Diskeeper (Who supplies the Windows defrag programs)

bledd · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:16

JohnM said:
O&O Defrag 10 Pro.

andshrew · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:29

Stonedofmoo said:
If you're talking about the Vista defrag program thats not true, if you look in device manager and processes you can see it runs at normal priority. In fact you can raise it to high priority and it's still slow.

Thats CPU priority. IO priority is at 'Background' (and is what dictates the speed at which it defrags) and I don't think it can be adjusted. You can see this with the Reliability and Performance monitor.