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Less fragmentation in Windows? Possible?
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:15 pm
by codemaniac
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)
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:29 pm
by Psychophanta
The way i use to win the defrag battle is format as FAT32, and forgot the defragment word forever.
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:22 am
by Thalius
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
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:39 am
by Tipperton
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:07 am
by Psychophanta
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.
