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Does Win XP take longer to defrag disks?

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Stutz

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Hi, all!
I have had XP installed on my machine for a couple of months. I retained the FAT32 segmenting of the disk. Yesterday I acquired Norton Systemworks 2002 primarily to defrag the disk, as I had not defragged since installation of the OS. It took over an hour even though the disk was only 5% fragmented. Is this to be expected? After running the defragmenter I learned that the Microsoft defragmenter in XP and the one in Systemworks are based on entirely different algorithms. At any rate, has it been your experience that defragmentation times are longer in XP than in 98?

Thanks for your input!

Best,

Stutz
 
hmm hate to rub salt in but Execsoft's Diskeeper program is by far the fastest defragger i have ever used, like 15 mins i think (i have al separate partitions) to defrag my 80GB raid setup. the claim is that diskeeper "lite" is the one included in win2k and winxp, so the full has better defrag and bootup options. once i tried it after my friend gave me a COMDEX demo cd i have never gone back.
 
XP feels faster to defrag for me...
Even if the drive is not very fragmented, a lot of data can still be in the wrong spot.
 
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