DEFRAGMENTING YOUR COMP

[Sacrifice]

wut does that do and how long does it take?

[Grimmy]

pretty much what it is, when you save a file on your puter, it save a piece here, some over there, and the rest over younder, which can in a way slow your puter down, becuase it has to read from all those points. When you defrag, you move all the files so they are continous.

As for how long it takes, depends on how big your HD is, how much RAM you have and your proc speed.

I have a 70 gig HD, 1.9GHz proc, and 512 Ram, and it took I think little over an hour. The size of the HD really affects time.

Hope that helps ;)

[Sauron]

i have 512 of RAM and 40 GB HD nearly full and it took me nearly 16 hours

edit: i have 35 gig of data on that drive

[Pure_Evil]

I have a 40 gig hard drive and 256 of ram and it takes about 4 hrs.

[SASQUATCH]

Use DIskKeeper the latest version which doesn't take that long. It also is a excellent program that works fine with Windows XP all versions.

SAS

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

diskkeeper is much quicker and defrags better then windows

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Hey folks, I don't remember where I read it....but, you should do a "scan disk" before doing a de-frag.
And when I say scan disk, I'm not talking about that blue screen that pops up when you don't shut down properly. LOL, that one doesn't count.
Look for scan disk under system tools.:)

[Sauron]

i always do a scandisk and a cleanup b4 i defrag my HD

[Sacrifice]

thx guys...well i defraged my comp and it only took me an hour :wootrock: and my comp is going like 3 times faster now!!

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Your welcome....and one more thing...the more you defrag....the less time it takes....in other words, don't wait 6 months before you defrag again.
I would suggest once a month.:)

[Grimmy]

How do you do a scan disk with XP home ed.?

O, was also going to ass, Sac, the more your HD is filled, the longer it will take to defrag. One bad thing about having a big HD, takes forever :wacko:

[Sirc]

Originally posted by OUTLAWS DirtGod@Jan 8 2003, 10:46 AM
diskkeeper is much quicker and defrags better then windows
Yep, that's what I use at home. :thumbs:

[Grimmy]

never heard of that, what is it?

[OUTLAWS Behind You?]

Originally posted by Grimmy@Jan 8 2003, 12:13 PM
How do you do a scan disk with XP home ed.?

XP uses CHKDSK instead of Scandisk. On all Windows, right click on "My Computer". Right Click on the drive you want to check and defrag and select Properties. Click the "Tools" tab. You can Scandisk or Chkdsk and Defrag from this screen.

[Goober]

I have Norton SystemWorks 2003 which is supposed to work with winxp. I fired up the analysis part, told me I was about 25% fragmented so I went ahead ran the disk check routine and then went to defragment.
After about an hour of defragmenting the comp locked up. This happened twice. I used the windows utility to finally defrag it but it doesn't defrag everything.... I finally downloaded diskeeper and it worked great and real fast....Has anyone else used Norton utilities on WinXp??

[OUTLAWS Behind You?]

I've got it. I've successfully defragged an NTFS partition, but it stopped on a Fat32 one. Haven't tried since. Oh, I have successfully defragged everything before, but that was with SystemWorks 2002, not 2003. :WTF:

[Troop]

I use Vopt99 and it takes only a few minutes. Fast enough to do everyday.

[Bones]

I like O&O Defrag better. Boot-time defrag of locked files, MFT, and page files.