Perfectdisk users question

Bony Maloney · 21 Apr 2006 at 10:06

Have any of you folks had any problems with the offline defrag, and do you set it to do your page file and your MFT. Also how often do you do this, or is it just when Perfectdisk recommends after analysis?
Thanks Paul

PARUK · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:13

The first time I used the offline defrag it aborted (harmless but frustrating) - but I soon found it that this was due to StyleXP. It was tying down some part of the disk that PerfectDisk needed.

So I ditched StyleXP and went for the DIY theme approach, and I haven't had a single problem since.

Admittedly, I only do an offline defrag when PerfectDisk recommends, which isn't very often (maybe once every two months). I have it set to do MFT & paging file etc.

Some points that may be worth noting:
- I'm not using RAID, just separate SATA disks
- The StyleXP thing demonstrated that some software agents (virus and spyware scanners mostly I'd have thought) can mess with boot-time defragmentation. It's probably safer to disable such things prior to the defrag (though I have NOD32 and this does NOT interfere with PerfectDisk at all)

Bony Maloney · 21 Apr 2006 at 13:37

Thanks PARUK, I have just carried out my 1st Perfectdisk boot defrag successfully

I had 2 mares with Diskeeper during boot sector scanning and had to reformat. Perfectdisk gets my vote.
Cheers me dears Paul

ALLI · 21 Apr 2006 at 15:17

i read somewhere not to use the boot sector defrag thing in diskkeeper....

O&O defrag does the job for me.

PARUK · 21 Apr 2006 at 16:02

I tried PerfectDisk after using Diskkeeper at work, and taking a dislike to it. Diskkeeper didn't do any harm (older version than current) but it seemed to be a bit of a resource hog and far too anal about the need to defragment.

Certainly fragmentation will impair performance over time, but Diskkeeper seemed convinced that the world would end if I didn't defragment every day.