Defragment

[stitch_626]

Gotta nother question (or 2): Is it possible to have your Drive(s) completely Defraged? And how does one rearrange files on the disk to there proper location RE: important ones in the front of disk and the least important ones at the end. Or do I have that mixed up...

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Sure format the drive. Completely 100% defragged.

 

Just don't add any data or you will mess up that good percentage.

[oblivescence]

ReiserFS handles fragments well so I just let it do its thing.

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i was gonna ask if linux needed defraggin, i aint ever heard of a program for it, so i didnt worry bout it much. so thanks, i feel better now.

 

oh and for my final windows machine, before i get the time to move it over to linux, its only fragmented if the little red lines are apart, because if 2/3 of the drive is one solid red block, its not really fragmented, right? because all the same color files are together, right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

j/k

 

but yes, i frag that badly

[Psychotic_god]

I defragment every time I install something.

[DECwakeboarder]

I rarely defrag, seems that I never have any problems now. Back in the win98 days it was like once or twice a week just to be able to use the dang thing!

[exeter_acres]

no need to defrag often with XP OS's....

 

with the older OS's.....I would do it once a week....

but with XP maybe once every few months....

the data storage alogirthms are good enough that it just isn't needed any more

[suchuwato]

I defrag only maybe three or four times a year. It isn't needed on XP, but definately with older operating systems. I had to defrag my Win95 system every other week.

[BiPolar]

it's not that XP is so great, it's the ntfs file system...which isn't perfect. sheesh, doesn't anyone read my posts?

[cchalogamer]

I use the windows defrager most of the time, but DLed and tried O&O out last night...i dont see it as worth my effort. I defrag the main rig about once every 2 months, LAN rig when i think about it (3 months?) and the stuff running older HDDs that cant really keep up with XP pro get a defrag when they show a little slow down (old 4GB HDD doesnt like XP anyway got to help it all i can )

[Kash]

LOL...funny.BTW Hardnrg, Twice a year??  holy Man!! Shooot I defrag atleast twice a week!!

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I defrag my drives whenever I start to notice an increase in load times, which usually happens maybe once a month. I used to schedule Diskeeper to defrag while I slept, so I would get a defragged drive every morning. Hmm, maybe I should do that again.....

[Puck]

I defrag my drives whenever I start to notice an increase in load times, which usually happens maybe once a month. I used to schedule Diskeeper to defrag while I slept, so I would get a defragged drive every morning. Hmm, maybe I should do that again.....

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Especially when benchmarking. If you check the logs the .dat files from most benchmarks get horribly fragmented, and actually lower your score.

[Kamikaze_Badger]

Windows Defragmenter works just fine for me.

[Encrypted_God]

I am getting the feeling ot getting the average that alot of people (or us here in OCC) uses the Windows Defrager. Hmm..Pretty reassuring to me. I read somewhere that it is good to reformat and do a clean install of windows atleast once a year. True?