What defragmenter?

Norbert666 · 18 Jan 2006 at 20:25

I have two HDDs. One with Windows XP, the other is a data drive, full of 120Gb of stuff.

The data drive is in a pretty horrendous state, according to WinXP defragmenter. Red lines all over the place.

I've defragged it within WinXP, but it says some files couldn't be defragged, and I still have loads of red lines.

Is there a better alternative to the WinXP defragger?

thanks

James

NathanE · 18 Jan 2006 at 20:36

Diskeeper or Perfectdisk.

Norbert666 · 18 Jan 2006 at 21:07

Any free ones?

dagwoood · 19 Jan 2006 at 01:28

Norbert666, Diskeeper Lite can be downloaded from here MajorGeeks. It's freeware.

Norbert666 · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:03

^thanks

AJUK · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:34

Diskeeper lite is not much better than the Windows one, in fact Diskeeper developed it for M$.

PerfectDisk is worth the money IMHO (humble!

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basmic · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:51

Going to side with the PerfectDisk fans here.

Otacon · 19 Jan 2006 at 10:49

VoptXP.

Norbert666 · 19 Jan 2006 at 11:00

AJUK said:
Diskeeper lite is not much better than the Windows one, in fact Diskeeper developed it for M$.

PerfectDisk is worth the money IMHO (humble! )

Ran DiskKeeper this morning. Made a bit of difference, but the disk is still a mess.

Is there a better freeware option?

Norbert666 · 19 Jan 2006 at 11:00

Otacon said:
VoptXP.

aha, just saw this. I'll give this a crack this evening.
ta.

NathanE · 19 Jan 2006 at 12:27

Bare in mind you need 20% free space on the volume otherwise no matter how much defragmenting you do will make little difference.

AJUK · 19 Jan 2006 at 12:35

NathanE said:
Bare in mind you need 20% free space on the volume otherwise no matter how much defragmenting you do will make little difference.

This is true, although PerfectDisk claims to be able to work at as low as 5%.

NathanE · 19 Jan 2006 at 12:54

They lie

Norbert666 · 19 Jan 2006 at 13:07

I have 18%... Does it mach such a big deal?