Question about defragmenting a Hard Drive

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Jun 13, 2007 | 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by fla-tls

Yeah diskeeper will defragment the MFT when you choose to do a boot time defrag. This is very important in speeding up the HD. The disk defragmenter included with XP will not defrag the MFT (and yes - it was written by the same company).

M$ included MFT defragmentation in the disk defragmenter included in Server 2003. Prior to that, you had to buy a 3rd party product.

As an experiment try this:

Run a boot time chkdsk and make note of how long it takes to check the indexes (step 2). Run a boot time defrag even using the trial version of diskeeper, and make sure you've selected defrag of the MFT. Then, run the boot time chkdsk again.

My step 2 went from about a minute to about 5 seconds. Now that's a significant improvement.

CanopyFly, this is just one reason why Diskeeper is better than the XP defragger. Also, the XP defragger sometimes can not give a clean analysis map no matter how many times it's been defragged. Diskeeper will in most cases. And who said anything about buying the executive version?

Jun 13, 2007 | 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by STL+3.0CL

Someone said they De-Frag every night ??? Totally un-necessary.

What is taking up 196 gigs of space ??? Just curious

yea it is un-necessary, but it only runs about half an hour and the machine is on anyway.
Also it does improve the performance of the machine (nightly is probably overkill but it should be run once a month).

Especially with installing and deinstalling software.