Less fragmentation in Windows? Possible?

codemaniac · Post by **codemaniac** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:15 pm

Hello!

I defragged my old harddisk and plugged it in to copy and backup my stuff, etc.. And when finally copying 48Gb to the harddisk, I analyzed it and it was 67% fragmented!! What the hell is that? Is there a way to have less fragmentation? The harddisk is now slow as hell even if there is more than 10Gb free space.. (it's 7200rpm wih 16mb cache)

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:29 pm

The way i use to win the defrag battle is format as FAT32, and forgot the defragment word forever.

Thalius · Post by **Thalius** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:22 am

FAT32 ?? DONT !!! that's Win98 Aera ....

If you REALLY dont want to defrag use Ext2/Ext3 under Windows ( Unix File System ).

See here:
http://www.fs-driver.org/

I personally use it since a while - its fast , stable ( besides you can access your data & system easly from win / linux ).

Thalius

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:39 am

I never worry about defragmenting my drives and never have any speed problems.

Windows XP and later has an option to do background defragmenting when the system is idle. I simply turn it on and forget about it.

There are also programs like RaxCo's Perfect Disk and Executive Software's Disk Keeper that will do background defrags at scheduled times.

I've tried both and found the Windows built-in one works just as well and is free with Windows.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:07 am

Thalius wrote:See here:
http://www.fs-driver.org/

I personally use it since a while - its fast , stable ( besides you can access your data & system easly from win / linux ).

Thalius

Thanx for it!
Probably I will change soon.
And probably i start working on OpenSUSE or similar before 2010.