Hard drive tools

[Teki187]

Could anyone recommend me some decent HDD tools..

Im after:

A Partitioning tool and Defrag.

Thanks

 

[Will_3rd]

partitioning = partition magic

defragging = Vopt XP or Diskeeper

 

[icecold]

partition magic is really good, don't know about defrag tools though...

 

[gurusan]

Ashampoo Magical Defrag is quite good. Constantly defrags in the background

 

[michael baxter]

PartitionMagic is excellent, I couple it with the partition backup tools of Acronis TrueImage.

You won't need anything else!

Defrag? Is the Windows defrag tool no good for you?

 

[michael baxter]

Ooops, double posting

 

[betabox]

Can't beat the old phillips head

In seriousness: Partition Magic is a treat.

 

[Teki187]

Defrag? Is the Windows defrag tool no good for you?

Its crap lol

 

[9dna]

I use Acronis Disk Director Suite and Diskeeper, I found them very good.

 

[mwtb]

Its crap lol

In what way?

 

[Teki187]

In what way?

I defraged my computer this morning, downloaded diskeeper ran it, said C: was heavily fragmented.

Cant be a good sign that windows says its fine, yet another program with great reviews on the web and recommended by OC users says its in bad shape.

 

[Massive Attack]

i use seagate tools to partition my hard drives i find it very good and incredibly easy to use its also great for setting up new drives, dont know about defrag i use the windows one anyones guees to how good it is.

 

[csmager]

I defraged my computer this morning, downloaded diskeeper ran it, said C: was heavily fragmented.

Interestingly, Diskeeper made Windows Defragmenter. Admittedly, a while ago.

 

[millsy888]

defraged my drive this morning with xp's built in one.

Downloaded the Diskeeper trial, and have just give it a go, and it said there was a lot of fragmentation

will continue with the trial and see how it does, but so far i'm impressed. Will be purchasing this i think

 

[t31os]

Partition Magic and Diskeeper get my vote.

Diskeeper is much better then the built in one with XP. Been using it a while now.

I use screensaver mode on my OS drive, and let the other drives defrag and silly hours of the morning, when its on of course, but its mainly the OS drive that needs defragging anyway.

Plus Diskeeper is real handy for configuring the page file.

Partition Magic, well..... just google it, its a very popular app, i just used it today to, to extend a partition on an old hard drive in a PC i repaired, some idiot split a 40gb HDD into 8gb / 32gb, then left the kids to use it..... (where everything just goes onto C:/ , and for some odd reason partition 2 showed up as a removable HDD, which was odd). Didnt have a floppy drive to create a rescue disk, but then i've never had to use one, its always worked perfect in my personal experience.

 

[Netvyper]

defraged my drive this morning with xp's built in one.

Downloaded the Diskeeper trial, and have just give it a go, and it said there was a lot of fragmentation

will continue with the trial and see how it does, but so far i'm impressed. Will be purchasing this i think

Slightly O/T but this might be an interesting one;
Gonna pull down the Diskeeper trial tool, and see if Vista's defrag cuts it

 

[Netvyper]

well I would, but their site seems broken

 

[chaosophy]

contig with Power defragmenter GUI as the front end is a quick easy free way to one off defrag your drives. Only used it on XP though.

Uzip both to the same dir.
run Power Defragmenter GUI.exe
next.
chose the last option when running first time 'powermode disk defrag'
Leave it running until a windows message pops up telling you it's finished, do NOT close the DOS windows etc before it does.


YMMV, use at your risk etc etc. But it's been fine here.