What's the worst fragmentation you have seen?

[RatDog]

My work laptop died yesterday, so I was forced to use the backup to the backup. It ran very slow, so I dumped 15GB from the CSC folder and defragged. Upon reboot, Windows would not load. The C: drive was completely blank! Anyway, below is the defrag report. The MFT having 490 fragments is probably not a good thing. But outlook.ost having 45,000 fragments blows my mind. I was curious to hear about some of your fragmentation stories.

DiskDefragmenter

VolumeC:

Volumesize=28.62GB
Clustersize=4KB
Usedspace=13.22GB
Freespace=15.40GB
Percentfreespace=53%

Volumefragmentation

Totalfragmentation=16%
Filefragmentation=31%
Freespacefragmentation=1%

Filefragmentation

Totalfiles=42,950
Averagefilesize=433KB
Totalfragmentedfiles=3
Totalexcessfragments=72,504
Averagefragmentsperfile=2.68

Pagefilefragmentation

Pagefilesize=672MB
Totalfragments=3,753

Folderfragmentation

Totalfolders=3,806
Fragmentedfolders=1
Excessfolderfragments=0

MasterFileTable(MFT)fragmentation

TotalMFTsize=109MB
MFTrecordcount=47,795
PercentMFTinuse=42%
TotalMFTfragments=490

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Fragments FileSize Filesthatcannotbedefragmented
23,749 521MB \ProgramFiles\MicrosoftStreetsTrips\Data\USA_CD.mad
45,008 3.50GB \ApplicationData\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost

 

[Bateluer]

My sisters computer. I don't have a report from it, but the color graph is usually entirely red, with green stripes for system files. Its sad really, its not a bad machine, with a decent amount of memory, but it beats the hard disk constantly because it needs to find all her data. She's constantly working with MP3s and pictures, deleting, backing up, moving, etc, so the drive gets destroyed easily.

Usually takes WinXP two or 3 tries every year when I'm there to clean it up.

 

[jadinolf]

I use diskeeper set for set it and forget it.

Only way to go.

 

[Aberforth]

Ultimate Defrag from DiskTrix is the fastest defragmenter. It is very useful when the disc is heavily fragmented.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: jadinolf
I use diskeeper set for set it and forget it.

Only way to go.

Thankfully you don't have to purchase a third party utility or use some hack to have automated defrag in Vista. It defaults to defrag once a week, but I have mine set to do it once a day so my disk stay defragmented.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

I think my dad hadn't defragged his drive in three years... He had something about 60% total fragmentation and 90% in some cases.

Anyway, 45000 isn't a lot, I've seen my team fortress 2 GCF file get a couple hundred thousand pieces.

 

[Modelworks]

The worst I ever saw was one of the data files that everquest used everytime I played.
300+ fragments for that roughly 1GB file

 

[Genx87]

One nice feature of Vista is the auto degragmentation when the system is idle.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
My sisters computer. I don't have a report from it, but the color graph is usually entirely red, with green stripes for system files.

The 60gb hard drive in my TFC server looked like that. I'm thinking the horrible fragmentation is part of the reason that hard drive failed; needing to thrash around all the time.

That was the only hard drive I've ever seen fail.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
The worst I ever saw was one of the data files that everquest used everytime I played.
300+ fragments for that roughly 1GB file

heh yeah...I had same issue, and still do with Vanguard