Defragging Programs

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-01-19 03:33am

Can anybody recommend a good defragging program? The built-in Windows one doesn't work very well with me...

Something free, of course.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-01-19 03:50am

Here is some step to step instruktions:

Defraggle your motherdisk!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-19 02:42pm

What OS and filesystem are you running? NTFS is difficult to defragment when you don't have much free space to work with.

The included defragmenter in Windows 2000 and Windows XP is a licensed, stripped-down version of Diskeeper. IIRC, the manufacturer has a trial version of the complete edition somewhere on their website.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-01-19 03:14pm

I'm running Windows XP, with FAT32 on the drives I need to defrag...
Well, I left the comp running last night and defragged my C drive. Looks like it works after all... Problem solved, thanks.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-01-19 10:30pm

Here's a tip I heard a little while ago: run defrag in safe mode. I used to get the idiot messages that the drive contents had changed, causing the whole thing to restart. Run in safe mode, these problems go away.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-01-19 11:13pm

Yeah, I got those under Windows ME. They seemed to have fixed that in Windows XP though...