best way to defragment your HDD

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  1. yazer

    yazer Member

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    Hi guys,
    I am trying to defragment a partition on my HDD ant it's 50 GB.. and the windows defragmentation tool did a great job my moving some files.. and the partition appears to be all red!!! (red = defragmented files - blue = continous files - for those who forgot)
    I am trying to use Norton Speed Disk now, any ideas or experiences to share?
     
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    Xian Regular member

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    Diskeeper is another to check out. It is pretty good, and used to be about the only utility that would defrag NTFS volumes back in the days of NT 3.51/4.0 since they didn't come with one from Microsoft like the one included with 2000 and XP.

     
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    side note: the defragmentation tool in windows (XP,2000) is a striped down version of executive software's DISKEEPER (v.4.0) they also have a demo http://www.executive.com/downloads/downloads-r.asp

    They are up to v8.0 and it kicks.I defrag my 160GB hard drive in no time.
     
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    I used to use diskeeper and it always started on its own at the times i never wanted it to work (although they said u wont notice!!):
    -Playing a game..
    -Burning a CD (boy, I got lots of coasters from that program)
     

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