XP Defrag a load of shit?

Post by **Foo** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:18 pm

Defrag is running for the second consecutive time on my C drive right now, yet it's still making improvements to the drive above and beyond what was altered on the first pass.

Why can't it do it on the first pass, or keep running until it's right, without needing to re-run the process?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:43 pm

I've always thought the built-in defraggers are poop. Went the shareware route some time ago. http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

Though I still think excecutive disk keeper is pretty shitty, bloated pos.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:15 pm

http://www.oo-software.com/en/

i would much rather this then anything, but hey! thats me!

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:36 pm

I used oo for a while, until I heard some comments from different net sources that perfectdisk is better.

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:25 pm

XP's defrag isn't capable of completely defragmenting in one pass (it often takes more than 5). IMO, if this is for one PC then use a product like O&O. Or you could just schedule defrags to run using the stock app via a batch file and then forget it.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:39 pm

dzjepp wrote: Though I still think excecutive disk keeper is pretty shitty, bloated pos.

Its damn near the best out there.

Bloated

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:44 am

color=#ff0000]I've used Diskeeper and PerfectDisk. I perfer PerfectDisk myself, however I wouldn't say Diskeeper is bad, I did not notice anything that would make me think it was bloated.[/color]

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:33 am

read the advanced defragging section in Koroush Ghazi's tweaking companion. There's a good diskeeper tutorial in there.

http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

I keep posting this link, but few seem to take heed.

my system is running like a dream and i haven't even done the defragging part yet.

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:43 pm

Yeah julz that is an excellent guide, I've been meaning to buy the hard copy version for some time, but now I'm kinda holding back seeing as vista is around the corner, plus I keep my xp in tip top shape already, but still that is one helluva guide.