Defragmenting

[JellyWorld]

I'm defragmenting my comp for the first time since i got it in march, 20 minutes on and its still at 4%. Is this normal? Its 160GB btw.

Edit: There's around 70GB of data on it.

 

[EC]

Depending on how fragmented it is, it could take quite a while. It has to "reassemble" all the files, and compact them. More data = more time.

 

[JellyWorld]

Oh and btw should i close all applications while defragging?

 

[NeptuneUK]

yes.
best thing to do is leave it on overnight
must be heavily fragmented by now anyway! try and defrag at LEAST once a month. i defrag every week or two to keep it in shape

 

[Laivasse]

Best to do it in safe mode too, because then you don't have 1000 background tasks constantly changing your drive contents.

 

[Chris D]

Also, only ever do it if it's absolutely necessary. Defragging puts a lot of stress on the HDD and doing it too often could eventually be the death of it.

 

[Jimmeh]

Also, only ever do it if it's absolutely necessary. Defragging puts a lot of stress on the HDD and doing it too often could eventually be the death of it.

*looks at his old dead HD*

Ah.

 

[ComradeBadger]

You crazy peoples with your formatting and defragging!

I've never formatted except to install and OS, and my puter boots and shuts down in 10secs. Gotta love h4xing tools :E

 

[sinkoman]

Also, only ever do it if it's absolutely necessary. Defragging puts a lot of stress on the HDD and doing it too often could eventually be the death of it.

I read somewhere that this is not true.

/me looks at his old dead hdd, and waits for his replacement to come this afternoon

 

[G-Dub]

Holy shit I defrag like there's no 2moro...

In that case, I'm surprised this HDD hasn't fallen over yet. It'll happen now you mentioned it Chris... I'm gonna blame YOU if it happens hehehehehe

 

[Asus]

If it's a maxtor drive then say goodbye. (jk)
But really, defragging makes no difference compared to normal use for drive life. Heat does though!
Seeing as working the harddrive can increase heat I see where the misconception comes in. Just cool your drive more as it isn't the back and forth that does the killing.

FYI the more free space on your drive the faster it will go. Not exactly because there is less data (that will help though) but because it has more room to work with when re-organizing files.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

I use diskeeper, it keeps defragging in the background all day, and can detect what files are going to be accessed. My hard drive is never fragmented.

 

[15357]

Also, only ever do it if it's absolutely necessary. Defragging puts a lot of stress on the HDD and doing it too often could eventually be the death of it.

Really?

You crazy peoples with your formatting and defragging!

I've never formatted except to install and OS, and my puter boots and shuts down in 10secs. Gotta love h4xing tools :E

My computer shuts down in 1 second, turns on in half a minute. (POST + boot)

What tools do you have?



oh, and defrag took 7 hours on a 40gb HDD for me.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

my computer boots in 13 seconds

 

[PickledGecko]

I use diskeeper, it keeps defragging in the background all day, and can detect what files are going to be accessed. My hard drive is never fragmented.

I use Diskeeper too, but when I set it to defrag constantly it ate up resources. I mean, I couldn’t even listen to music ‘cause it caused Winamp to stutter constantly. I tried putting Diskeeper on the lowest priority setting but that made no difference. I have no idea why, I guess its just one of those things. But I’ll wait until I have a dual core processor before trying it on again.

 

[furiousV]

I defrag after every game install / major installation. That way, only music files and documents frag up, including them recovery files.

So how come Linux gets away without fragging the files in the first place? You would have expected better with the NTFS file system.

 

[Ti133700N]

Diskeeper rockZorz the big one!!!1 Seriously, it's one of the good little app I've ever tried. For those who don't see any difference when they defrag, I'd say try diskeeper and you'll see one from your bare eyes. Programs start alot faster + faster reboot.

 

[duffers20]

Might give that diskeeper a try then. My disc isn't getting slow, its just I have installed quite a bit recently.

 

[baron insig]

^^ happened to me would kick in during bloody css :/

tho thanks fro reminding me i recently reformatted due tosome corruption oppsie and forgot to install it havent defragged in like a month n 2 weeks gunna be messy! need backup!

 

[JellyWorld]

Diskeeper isn't free though

 

[duffers20]

Diskeeper isn't free though

Shouldn't be a problem

Nah just kidding, anyone know any good free apps I could try instead?

 

[holydeadpenguins]

Shouldn't be a problem

Nah just kidding, anyone know any good free apps I could try instead?

PM me. :naughty:

 

[diluted]

I defragment my hard drive like once a month.

 

[JellyWorld]

Wow BF2 loading time is slashed from something like 1 minute to 15 seconds after defrag.

 

[baron insig]

deary me all these ere naught sea dee pirates

 

[furiousV]

www.majorgeeks.com they got some free defrag utilities there.