Norton speeddisk or XP defrag? Which one should I use?

shurato

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XP reports my disk as being 6% fragmented and no defragging needed. Speed disk stated I think 23% fragmentation and defragging was needed. My hard drive is NTFS. which one is right? which one should I use? I went ahead and defragged using norton but now I'm questioning whether windows would analyze a NTFS partition better than norton. I have norton 2002. Thanks.
 

geekender

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Diskkeeper if you can get it. Its like a "pro" version of XP defrag, only more intense. Xp defrag is like diskkeeper lite.
 

corkyg

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What comes with XP is Diskkeeper Lite. It is dog slow. NSW's Speed Disk is about as bad. I tried Diskeeper 7.0 and it is better. But I finally selected PerfectDisk by Raxco - it is even better. Raxco