Defrag Software?

[Bob Bobertson]

I'm looking to get a Disk Defragmenter to use instead of the standard Windows one, I'm thinking of getting O&O Defrag V8.0 but don't really know what I'm looking for. Is that any good or are there much better ones out there? If anyone could tell me of a good free one that would be great! I just thought I had better ask somewhere before I part with any cash.

 

[homercles337]

You want to use a defrag other than windows, but you dont know about defragmenters?

 

[powerMarkymark]

I hear that the built in Windows defragger is plenty for the average user.

M@rc

 

[Jeff7181]

The built in one should do fine. I've used O&O Defrag before and it allows you to specify how you want files organized on the disk but it's really overkill unless you have a network server or something and want to arrange the files yourself so they're accessed more quickly.

 

[Bob Bobertson]

Ok, It's just I barely notice any difference in performance after running the Windows defrag, and I wouldn't say its because it doesn't need it.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Bob Bobertson
Ok, It's just I barely notice any difference in performance after running the Windows defrag, and I wouldn't say its because it doesn't need it.

From what I understand, fragmentation isn't as big a problem with NTFS as it was with FAT32 and FAT16. I don't notice a difference after I defrag my Raptor either. I don't even notice it much on my 4200 RPM laptop hard drive after I defrag.

 

[Bob Bobertson]

Ok, thanks I guess I will stick with the Windows defrag.

 

[KoolDrew]

Get O&O. Defragmentation alone does very little for performance compared to actually reorgaznizing your files like O&O does.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: powerMarkymark
I hear that the built in Windows defragger is plenty for the average user.

M@rc

It is.

 

[MrBond]

The only thing I wish I could do with the Windows defragger is schedule defragmentation (may be possible with Schedule, I've never played around with it) and defragment multiple drives (I have drives C-H on my system and I'd like to be able to start a defrag in the morning and let it do all drives while I'm at work).

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: MrBond
The only thing I wish I could do with the Windows defragger is schedule defragmentation (may be possible with Schedule, I've never played around with it) and defragment multiple drives (I have drives C-H on my system and I'd like to be able to start a defrag in the morning and let it do all drives while I'm at work).

It used to be easy... but now I don't know how to set up the Scheduler to do it.

 

[jkoon]

You can make a batch file to run the defragmenter from the command line and then execute this batch file from the scheduler.

Just make a batch file (defrag.bat) with something like:

defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f

in it and then add that batch file as a scheduled task.

You should be able to do a couple google searches and find some guides on how to do this (or run defrag /? from the command line for information on the parameters)