How often do you defrag your harddrive?

[vanderStoep]

every two weeks or so.

Edit:
I see a lot of people writting "with 5% fragmentation" ??? How do you see how much your hdd is fragmented?

 

[billandopus]

Another vote for Vopt99. I defrag before every burn which is probably unnecessary and maybe when it goes above 6-9 percent.

 

[Topochicho]

create a seperate partition for you pagefile to run on and set your max/min to the size of the partition and defrag becomes almost useless. All you might want to do is defrag fat16/32 disk when it gets super screwed, but not really important. NTFS drives won't ever need it... you'll upgrade to the next windows before it'll need it.

PS the seperate partion for pagefile needs to be a fat 16/32 drive. NTFS puts all it overhead right in the middle of the disk , which would cut your pagefile into 2 parts. Fat 16/32 puts it at the beginning leaveing your pagefile as one continuos unfragmented and speedy file.

 

[sbl]

With Win98, about once a week. With Win2000, less than once a month.

 

[Syborg1211]

i just defragmented my hard drive and see no difference and got no difference in performance

 

[beat mania]

never. well, I used to when I had dinky 80mb hd. now I have > 200gb of space it'll take quite a while to do. so I don't.

 

[Lokan]

Hah, this thread made me go defrag, my primary 15 gig HD was 79% fragmented!! Needless to say it had been 6 months or so. Oh well, Speed disk fixed that.

 

[Dan]

C partition (where the OS is) usually gets defragged once/week.

Other partitions (D-F) usually get defragged once/month.

 

[Syborg1211]

how do you tell how fragmented a hard drive is?

 

[osage]

Sharkeeper, tell me about restoring and image, what is that, and how is it done?? Is this something you use Ghost or some other software to do? thanks
I defrag about every 2 weeks or so

 

[Charay]

"defragging mah hard drive for thrills" from weird al and "it's all about the pentiums" LOL
i have no life so i perform one weekly.

 

[dawks]

once a month. but I try to put it off as long as possible. I need as many cycles for rc5 as I can get!!

 

[jinsonxu]

I'm thinking of using Win2K. Is NTFS faster than FAT32? Why doesn't it require to be defragged as often as FAT16/32?

 

[Topochicho]

Its not a speed thing, its stability. The NTFS system is much more robust. It also manages itself better than the fat systems. The problem with NTFS is that it can't be read by the 95/98 platforms and win2k just runs too damn slow for games. Fat 32 is reasonably stable, but it doesn't manage itself well and tends to fragment badly. Problem is that NT4.0 doesn't read fat32. Fat 16 is a POS and eats up space while being extremely unstable.

 

[AMB]

About every two weeks

 

[JaiKnight]

vanderStoep and Syborg1211: From what I can tell you only find out how much your HD is fragmented when you startup the Defrag. After the initial check of your HD it'll tell you how much your HD is fragmented and ask if you want to continue, I think if it's really bad it'll just go ahead without asking, I'm not sure though...

BTW: Defragging big drives sucks Is SpeedDisk really that much faster? I might have to try that...

 

[minihoser]

Is a defrag, when you are playing UT defending the flag and get killed???????????????????

 

[Senior Member]

JaiKnight: Yes, Norton Utilities SpeedDisk is great; many times faster than Win defrag. Norton Systemworks 2000 is a great set of utilities if you do a custom install and do not let any of the progs run at startup. (Don't use CrashGuard at all, of course.)

 

[Syborg1211]

very funny minihoser

windows 98se is not telling me how much my hard drive is fragmented, just defragged and it didn't ask. Just tried to defrag again and it didn't ask or say anything either.

 

[Howard]

Defrag means to revive somebody that you shot to pieces.

 

[Lokan]

Syborg, Win98's doesn't tell you when you start it automatically, but Norton's Speeddisk does. To find out an approximation of the HD's status, just run the defrag and look at the graphical representation of the HD. All the white blocks are free space on the HD that the defrag program will "condense" so that the HD doesn't have to search all over the drive to find info.

 

[Steven the Leech]

weekly

 

[MWink]

I defrag every day.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

About once a month.

 

[Kill_Phil]

dont remember the last time