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disk keeper 9 vs win xp

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Xarick

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Hey my mobo came with a free copy of diskkeeper 9. should I use that over xps defragger? or does it really matter?
 
Yes, use Diskeeper 9 instead of the Windows XP defragmenter.
I use the 9 pro version. Both pro and home versions have "Set It and Forget It".
You set a time for your HDs to be defraged and let Diskeeper do the rest. All my drives are set to defrag once a day. It happens when I'm not using my PC, so it's no big deal.
 
I think it's faster and can defrag more than one drive at a time.
You've got it... You don't need to buy it... Why not load it? :shocked:
 
🙂
Just don't wanna hose anything up. And I definetly don't want to use an inferior product if is is such.
 
Recently, I tried a simplistic and manual way of defragging. I boot into BartPE, then used the A43 file management tool to copy all files from my boot drive to a spare drive (copying file by file on a filesystem basis, not creating image). Then I formatted the original drive, then I copied back the pagefile.sys first so it resides on the outermost tracks of the drive, then I copied all other files back from the spare drive to the original drive. This basically defrags every single file and pile them neatly and contiguously on the drive. The resulting drive worked well. The only disadvantage is that the contents of the drive expanded in size by about 10%. I don't know what that's from. For some reason, there's some compression somewhere that's decompressed by this copying back and forth procedure.
 
Originally posted by: Blain
Yes, use Diskeeper 9 instead of the Windows XP defragmenter.
I use the 9 pro version. Both pro and home versions have "Set It and Forget It".
You set a time for your HDs to be defraged and let Diskeeper do the rest. All my drives are set to defrag once a day. It happens when I'm not using my PC, so it's no big deal.
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once a day? thats like washin ur hands once an hour =D
 
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
once a day? thats like washin ur hands once an hour =D
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The program doesn't bill me by the hour, it's been paid for.
The PC has dormant time, I'm not folding or any other DC tasks.
Why not once a day? 😛

 
cuz i think that file fragmentation occurs over longer periods of time and due to heavy usage of hdd like lots of copying, installing and stuff. defragging once a month should be enough. but hey, u like ur hdd fast and clean and so do i 🙂
 
Originally posted by: docinthebox
The only disadvantage is that the contents of the drive expanded in size by about 10%. I don't know what that's from. For some reason, there's some compression somewhere that's decompressed by this copying back and forth procedure.
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That is most likely because you are changing the parameters for the NTFS MFT system files and MFT reserved zone. In order for those to be properly sized and placed, you really need to do an off-line defrag during the boot cycle.

 
Yes, you should most certainly use Diskeeper over the XP defrager. You will see better results. By the way, I use PerfectDisk and I defrag once a day too.
 
Originally posted by: Boyo
Yes, you should most certainly use Diskeeper over the XP defrager. You will see better results. By the way, I use PerfectDisk and I defrag once a day too.
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You should try buzzsaw. It keeps your drive perma-defragged.
 
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Originally posted by: Boyo
Yes, you should most certainly use Diskeeper over the XP defrager. You will see better results. By the way, I use PerfectDisk and I defrag once a day too.
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You should try buzzsaw. It keeps your drive perma-defragged.
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How does that work for you? I just Googled it and it looks good.
 
I have diskeeper 8.0 too. Luv it! Way faster the than the XP option. If you don't use the set it and forget it option it still only takes a fraction of the time to keep your disks degragged. If you do alot of copying, moving files around, installing, uninstalling you'll be amazed at how fast your disks get fragemented.

 
How well does Diskeeper do offline defrag of the NTFS system and MFT files, etc. ?

Perfect Disk does that extremely well.
 
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