Frag this!

Etaqua · 20 Mar 2006 at 18:14

Recently, my hard drive has needed pretty much constant defragging to avoid problems like this. I'm using the Windows built in defragger at the moment, and that was taken after a defrag yesterday.

Some things you should know:

- I've been doing TONS of torrenting. More than usual because NTL have given me a free 10mb trial for a month.

- My computer hasn't been turned off for four days.

I'd just like to know how it is possible that my hard drive got that fragmented overnight, and what better defragging programs there out there than the bog standard Windows one...

TIA.

Etaqua · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:34

Hrm, well I've read several times in here that the Windows one sucks.

Before the connection speed increase, my drive didn't get this fragmented, even over weeks without defragging...

Could leaving my computer on 24/7 have anything to do with it?

Etaqua · 20 Mar 2006 at 22:50

I'm using uTorrent at the moment because it is lightweight and makes no impact at all on performance. Azureus is kinda bloated and slow (Java, eeew

).

I'll take a look at the site, locutus12, thanks.

Etaqua · 20 Mar 2006 at 22:57

BruceLee said:
Or looking at it another way, you should (have) partition(ed) the drive so that you have 1 partition (or drive) reserved for downloading only.

I wasn't the one who partitioned it, this was a prebuilt computer. I'll eventually get around to doing it, but I'll need more hard drive space before I do that, otherwise I'll lose all my stuff.

Edit:

This is a real problem for me now, it was pretty much the same after my defrag yesterday as well.

Etaqua · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:58

It's a 200GB hard drive. 50GB free (25%).

It's this full because I filled up my 80GB drive and now I have hardly any space to put my stuff.

This hard drive's got 50GB or so free. Could I resize this to make C: 140GB and F: 50GB, then move 50GB of the stuff on C: to F:, resize again to make C: 90GB F: 100GB, and so on until C: is about 20GB and F: is 170GB?

Are there any other partitioning scheme that would be better for me? C: for Windows and applications, F: for personal files and G: for my page file (Would this increase performance?), for example?

All I really use my computer for is the occaisonal gaming session, watching movies, listening to music, chatting, and heavy internet browsing.