Re: defragment strategy

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Kristi (a_at_b.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:56:00 -0400

Darrell wrote:
> Don't defrag from normal Windows. Too many items occur on a continuing
> basis and defrag has to start all over. Boot up into Safe Mode and defrag
> from there. Now your defrag should continue smoothly. Reboot to normal
> Windows when finished.

With PerfectDisk I defrag from WinXP all the time. Only difference is when
I defrag the directories on the boot partition - it does an offline defrag
(at boot) for that.
hth
Kristi 

-- 
Shuttle AN35N Ultra, XP2600Bart(11.5x400), 512mb, GeF3Ti200, WinXPproSP1. 
Defragger Raxco PerfectDisk6 rocks! fast! (I do not work for Raxco)

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