Harddrive?s becoming severely fragmented very quickly?

[Socio]

Harddrive?s becoming severely fragmented very quickly?

I did a fresh XP Pro install last weekend and since then all 3 of my SCSI harddrives have become ?severely fragmented? according to Diskeeper on a daily basis.

I have had XP running with these hard drives since last August and maybe had to do a full defrag 6 or 7 times on them even then they were not that bad. Is there anything I might have done, turned on or off in XP that would cause this mass fragmentation phenomenon?

Thanks for any help

 

[So]

Severely defragmented? Awesome! You'll never have to run defrag utilities, and youve broken the Second law of thermodynamics. Good job. :| The egg I ate for breakfast just came back together. On the plus side, your HD is now a pweretual motion machine. 😀

I believe you mean they became fragmented quickly. 🙂

Anyway, I don't think it's too much to worry about, run the defrag utility again in a few weeks. If it's still fragmented, run defrag again and don't worry about it. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. I ran defrag for the first time in 4 years last weekend and it made no huge diff.

 

[Cogman]

To be Completly honest, I really would not worry that much, HDs have gotten fast enought the Defraging it really does not make much of a speed diffrence. Just run Defrag every so often and dont worry about it.

 

[mechBgon]

Harddrive?s becoming severely defragmented very quickly?

Yeah, me too. My 15k Cheetah defragments so quickly it's over before I can return from the refrigerator with the cold pizza sometimes 🙁

 

[Socio]

Originally posted by: So

I believe you mean they became fragmented quickly. 🙂

Anyway, I don't think it's too much to worry about, run the defrag utility again in a few weeks. If it's still fragmented, run defrag again and don't worry about it. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. I ran defrag for the first time in 4 years last weekend and it made no huge diff.

Yes fragmented very quickly is what I ment.

As far as mountain out of a mole hill, what I am experiencing is not normal, my system become sluggish and when I have Diskkeeper analyze my hard drive, and look at the fragmented hard drive maps they are over 90% RED and it happens on all three drives and on a daily basis.

 

[Davegod]

tried chucking swapfile into it's own partition?

I assume theyre NTFS?

 

[Socio]

Yes NTFS;

I will try putting the sawpfile in its own partition, I did not have to do this with my prior installation of XP but if there is a chance it will fix it then I will give it a go.

Thanks