Disc Defragmenting

[V Knid esq]

Anyone know any HARDCORE defragging programmes? This is my own fault for not doing regular caretaking of my computer... but my C: drive is completely in tiny bits (mp3s mostly) - XP's own utility seems to do about 1% of the job each time I run it, and I've tried e.g. System Mechanic too, to little avail.

Look!

[Loz]

perfectdisk

and check yer pms

[bob]

also it might be hard to do with 16% free space

[V Knid esq]

Windows says more than 15% is ok.... I've got an outboard hard drive though, would transferring the files across, defragging, then bringing them back do me any good?

[Yer_Maw]

yes. As far as i know when you copy them over and back again that defrags the drive.

Also remember not to do anything whilst your defragging. Its an overnight job as anytime ive done it restarts when something is written. Might be why its taking so long.

[spoon]

jkdefrag is the best i've used. it's tiny and very fast, not anywhere near as fussy as the built in defragger either - you can usually work away while it runs depending on your disk.

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

[olv]

on the subject of defragging, whats the deal with macs? do you need the same type of program as the above ones or is there some utility in the OS that i'm unaware of?

[Yer_Maw]

you dont need to on mac. os x takes care of it all automatically.

[olv]

ah cool, i thought it might be something like that

[KuffDam]

yeah its fine in OSX, they get round it by it not being a load of shit to start with. prett shrewd.

i wouldn't bother joe unless your pc is really thrashing the harddrive when you load something - and even then its more likely to be a registry issue.

backing up all your data is always a good thing... that might inspire you to do a rebuild and then avoiding loading any badly written PC software.

[love_tempo]

knid, you're better off not running hard disks that close to capacity if you can. They work much better if there's say 25-33% free.

[stormfield]

aye

or back everything up to a removable drive, then format your original drive + transfer data back over.

could be quicker.

[V Knid esq]

OK Spoon's Jkdefrag did the best job yet:



Now 'm moving My Music folder to removable drive... see what that does.

[spoon]

w007!1