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Vista and defragging

  • 16-06-2009 9:03am
    #1
    AnimalRights
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭


    Unlike on XP you don't see your progress and the problem I'm having is that my defrag is never finishing!
    3-4 times I've tried over the last few days, left it on over night and it still hadn't ended.
    I remember before that XP would have a problem that I had read about defrag would keep restarting at certain points, wondering if there is a similar problem with Vista..?
    Also if there is how do I get around it?

    Ta for any info.


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Honestly Ive never seen any evidence that the defrag even works. Supposedly it runs in the background every wednesday night by default...

    But tbh I prefer to use something like PerfectDisk which does the job many times better. Go give that a lash.


  • #3
    redox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭redox


    Vista's defragger can be very slow; and coupled with the lack of a display, it's difficult to know what's going on. From the command prompt (admin level) you can get a more detailed defrag analysis as well as additional defrag switches, but it still doesn't tell you what it's doing.

    As far as third party utilities are concerned, Diskeeper is my favourite. Currently I use DK2009 Pro on 2 XP systems: excellent automatic operation with the option of pulling up the drive map for checking/information anytime. When I used to have Vista Home premium, it ran fine under that OS too.


  • #4
    cdb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭cdb


    jk-defrag is an excellent defrag tool and it is free.

    Works perfectly on Vista and there are 32 & 64 bit versions available.
    A standalone app, it is also configurable as a screen saver. Effortless.


  • #5
    goodlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭goodlad


    I would completely recommend defraggler, its brilliant.
    http://www.defraggler.com/


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    lol. Thats the first time I've seen 4 completely seperate endorsements in succession like that for anything on this forum :p


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  • #7
    docmol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 339 ✭✭docmol


    you could also try disconnecting from network and disabling any antivirus software running. Close any extra services/apps that might be slowing things down. After the first long and painful defrag, subsequent defrags should be faster.


  • #8
    death1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭death1234567


    Overheal wrote: »
    lol. Thats the first time I've seen 4 completely seperate endorsements in succession like that for anything on this forum :p

    Here's number 5 Auslogics - disk defrag --> works with 64 bit vista.


  • #9
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭omerin


    goodlad wrote: »
    I would completely recommend defraggler, its brilliant.
    http://www.defraggler.com/

    i'll second that :D


  • #10
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I booted up my ubuntu laptop 1.5% non-contiguous files never been defraged.

    Not 100% sure of the techniques used but Windows is just really bad at saving files in one place, it readily splits files to fill available gaps rather than finding a gap big enough to fit the whole file. NTFS (or was that HPFS) is supposed to have bit map images of drive usage so to readily find spaces big enough for the files. Also IIRC linux leaves gaps so files can grow a little before becoming fragmented. A fully defragmented windows system means that when you add text to a document the part of the document will be saved at the end of the other files.

    Personally I like to use contig from sysinternals to make sure that data files are stored in a single block to ease later data recovery


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