OT: Defragmenter

FuTz wrote on 6/27/2003, 5:12 PM

There's been a few discussions about defrag' and my question would now be:
Do you know where I could find a good free defragmenter that won't bug my system (XP) ? And if there's no free option, what do you use/which one do you think is the best?

Thanks.

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SVoBa wrote on 6/27/2003, 5:19 PM

What do you mean by "defragmenter that won't bug my system (XP)"?

The in-box defragmenter has been working fine for my Windows XP Pro system. It's free! I'd set it up to do the disks overnight.

--svb

FuTz wrote on 6/27/2003, 7:08 PM

Ok.
But people have mentionned here in the forum that there were better defragmenters than Windows defrag'...

Yeah, a defrag' can't really bug a system. My mistake.

SVoBa wrote on 6/27/2003, 8:19 PM

Unless your system is configured with many and very large and complex storage volumes for similarly complex applications that require being available non-stop, there are no needs for anything beyond the in-box defragmenter.

--svb

Brazilian wrote on 6/27/2003, 9:11 PM

Without hesitation, O&O Defrag! http://www.oo-software.com/

rextilleon wrote on 6/28/2003, 12:03 AM

I disagree with SVoba--there are many advantages to a defrag utliity other then the one that comes with XP---I use Executive Diskeeper---they have a lite version for free. Its very fast--much more so then XP and gives you a host of options that XP doesn't---I defrag often and find the speed to be critical

kentwolf wrote on 6/28/2003, 12:17 AM

I also use Executive Diskeeper and have had very good success with it.

I indicated on a survey that I had a Diskeeper technical question, no problem with the program; just a question, and their technical support kept tracking me down until they could talk with me and answer my question. I was very impressed.

Diskeeper is significantly faster than either Norton Speed Disk or XP built in defrag. I hear that the built in XP defrag is built on Diskeeper, but not nearly as fast or deluxe.

If you are looking for a defragger that will maintain your disk defragmentation; I have 6 120 GB hard drives, do it fast, and do it well, Diskeeper is the way to go.

PhilHemel wrote on 6/28/2003, 1:07 AM

another vote for Diskeeper here!

sdmoore wrote on 6/28/2003, 4:33 AM

I vote for Raxco PerfectDisk2000. I tried Diskeeper about a year ago and was quite disappointed with it - I could never get it to consolidate all the free disk space

Scott

FuTz wrote on 6/28/2003, 6:58 AM

Thanks for suggestions guys, I'm gonna check it out!

TomG wrote on 6/29/2003, 8:57 PM

I agree with PerfectDisk by Raxco. It is very fast and as mentioned by sdmoore, it does consolidate your freedisk.

TomG