best disk defrag tool for win XP

[unbiased]

What is the best defragging tool for win XP?
I have dual boot(98/xp) syatem.When I start norton antivirus or norton disk doctor or defragging utility,it does the operation on both the partitions(if I select so).Is it in anyway not recommended to carry out these operations on diffrent drives containing different OSes?

Please Answer!

 

[Smilin]

I would feel comfortable running a defrag on both drives from XP, but not from 98.

 

[gdtaylor]

Assuming your Windows XP partition is formatted in NTFS then the best disk defrag program is Diskeeper. If your drives are both formatted using FAT32 then I would use the built-in defrag tools in Windows.

 

[EeyoreX]

I would feel comfortable running a defrag on both drives from XP, but not from 98.

Me too, if I felt comfortable using Windows 98

Windows XP does optimizations when your PC is idle to assist in fast loading/booting of the OS. I would let XP do all my defragging tasks so as to minimize risk to this process (by risk I mean slowing my system down and having XP continually change things back) I also like Perfect Disk, from XP, as I think it uses the same .ini file as Windows XP does to store and handle the defrag info for fast booting.

\Dan