Is there anything wrong with XP's defragmenter?

jp_bl_68 · 29 Aug 2009 at 13:30

I'm about to defrag a 40GB HDD. It's hasn't been defragged in the last 5 years. Is there anything wrong with XP's built in defragmenter? Is there a better, free alternative?

andrewdodd13 · 29 Aug 2009 at 13:40

jp_bl_68 said:
I'm about to defrag a 40GB HDD. It's hasn't been defragged in the last 5 years. Is there anything wrong with XP's built in defragmenter? Is there a better, free alternative?

XP's defragmenter is quite slow and doesn't give the performance benefits of some commerical defrags. All XP's one does is defragment the files, but it will place them anywhere on the drive it can find enough free space.

I usually use Raxco PerfectDisk, it's very good, but it's not free. O&O is supposedly very good as well, I don't know how much it costs. I'm not aware of any free ones, but I haven't looked in a while.

Sin_Chase · 29 Aug 2009 at 14:03

Auslogis Disk Defrag is Free and looks ok.

jp_bl_68 · 29 Aug 2009 at 14:08

Cheers.

AbsenceJam · 29 Aug 2009 at 14:24

Grab yourself JKDefragGUI / My Defrag. Very, very fast, free and effective - more so than commerical ones too.

jp_bl_68 · 29 Aug 2009 at 14:43

Thanks for the suggestion but I've already started using Auslogics and I don't think it would be a good idea to stop halfway through. So far it seems pretty good. It's noticeably faster than the standard defragmenter.