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Defragmenting Dual Boot Laptop...

  • 14-06-2009 12:46am
    #1
    _Whimsical_
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    Can you use a defrag program like Perfectdisk to defrag a dualboot vista/xp laptop ? Would I cause all sorts of problems if I tried ?

    Thank you in advance for any advice.


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
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    Moved from Laptops


  • #3
    PogMoThoin
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    None, both c drives will be seperate partions


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    as a general rule defragment with the newest OS only.
    it will be aware of the older OS but not visa-versa.


  • #5
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    as a general rule defragment with the newest OS only.
    it will be aware of the older OS but not visa-versa.

    Thank you both for the replies!

    I'm not sure which is the newest OS as the laptop was dual boot when I got it.
    Is there anyway of telling? Will I do damage if I defragment the wrong one first?


  • #6
    sceptre
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    Someone will probably explain to me why my approach is wrong but as you'll have each OS on a different partition, defrag each OS partition separately by installing the defrag program on each OS and deselecting the partition containing the other OS. For shared partitions, use the newer OS (as in the most recently released one, which would be Vista)


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  • #7
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    sceptre wrote: »
    Someone will probably explain to me why my approach is wrong but as you'll have each OS on a different partition, defrag each OS partition separately by installing the defrag program on each OS and deselecting the partition containing the other OS. For shared partitions, use the newer OS (as in the most recently released one, which would be Vista)

    Both partitions should be readable from whichever partition you choose, so you can defrag both partitions.
    Plus, as the Operating System(OS) is in use, there are more resources which cannot be defragged because they are in use - so really, it's best to defrag another OS from one OS (Less files locked).
    Defragging from both partitions would produce better defragging, but not so much that it'd be worth the time/effort.
    <I'm probably not explaining this well...in short: install once, defrag both partitions, it's all good. Goodnight.>


  • #8
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    sceptre wrote: »
    For shared partitions, use the newer OS (as in the most recently released one, which would be Vista)

    Doh I'm an idiot. I thought it meant whichever was installed first.Thanks !

    Karoma wrote: »
    Both partitions should be readable from whichever partition you choose, so you can defrag both partitions.
    Plus, as the Operating System(OS) is in use, there are more resources which cannot be defragged because they are in use - so really, it's best to defrag another OS from one OS (Less files locked).
    Defragging from both partitions would produce better defragging, but not so much that it'd be worth the time/effort.
    <I'm probably not explaining this well...in short: install once, defrag both partitions, it's all good. Goodnight.>

    No, that was well explained...I understood. Thank you for that.:)

    Let the defragmenting commence!:)


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