3rd Party defragmentation software

[GONNAFISTYA]

I made the mistake of using a 3rd party (free download) disk defragmentation software a couple of weeks ago. It did a great job of defragmenting a nearly full portable disk with many large files on it that the Window’s default defragmenter wouldn’t defrag.

However, after I defragmented my C:/ drive with it my system is very unstable. It basically crashes once a day doing such mundane things as watching YouTube videos, opening a file or (sometimes) clicking on things. I crash right to a reboot.

I’ve run the disk checker (low-level) every time it crashes but it doesn’t tell me if it’s found any problems or if it fixed them (I doubt it fixed anything since it keeps crashing) as I usually run the disk check when I go to bed as it takes forever….so I’m not there to monitor the results.

I’m curious if any of you know a way of:

1) Finding out from some log file from the disk check to see what the problem was or,

2) “Undoing” the fragmentation the 3rd party software has done. (I’ve tried using Window’s own defragmenter but it won’t defrag several files anymore)

Any help or info would be appreciated. Move this to T&T whenever but I thought maybe some nerd here could answer.

[Giraffe }{unter]

Have you tried disabling system restore for all drives, moving any gynormous files (over 1 gig) off the drive, then run a disk check, followed by a defrag from safemode.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Thanks.

I'll give it a try.

[Captain]

Sounds like you should've used Diskeeper.

[AmIdYfReAk]

or O&o

[GONNAFISTYA]

or O&o

It was O&o....it was their trial version.

It's great in that you can defrag multiple drives simultaneously, but I've read some articles/comments where other users bitched about the software "introducing disk errors".

[AmIdYfReAk]

Ohh my, Well then...

the only reason i started using is simple, it was great at defragging the 4+ gig Recordings on my Cent..

i will keep that in mind.. its to bad though.

[glossy]

I use O&O occasionally (it's setup to run on every boot, which is about every 14 days)

Maybe I ought to switch if it's introducing errors, my drives are on their last legs as it is.

[Fender]

Contig
Single file defragmenter, but you can tell it do recurse. Written by sysinternals, now a free MS download.