Re: Defrag is very slow.
- From: "Charles C. Drew" <ccdrew11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:14:17 -0600
"Phisherman" <noone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:07:57 -0500, Bill Watt <nobwatt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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| >XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
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| >Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
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| >Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
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| >Regards,
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| >Bill Watt
| >Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
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| If the drive is >80% full, defrag will take longer.
Here are your options...
1) Get PerfectDisk. Its the fastest FAT32 defrag tool I've used, if I
remember correctly (it's been a few years since I installed and tried the
demo for it). It's expensive at about $50.
2) Get Norton Utilities 2002 and install speedisk and download the updates
to it. It is the 2nd fastest FAT32 defrag utility I've used. You can
probably find it cheap at a used software store.
3) Get PartitionMagic and convert your FAT32 to NTFS (in place without
loosing your current windows install or data files...backups are golden
though). Then XP's defrag will be faster (PerfectDisk or Diskeeper will be
MUCH FASTER). Don't bother with Norton Utilities if you have NTFS because
it is much slower with NTFS.
I currently have all my PCs formatted with NTFS and use Diskeeper 10 to
defrag. It is scheduled to run at night, every night and takes about 1-5
minutes to fully defrag my PC. It is also an expensive option at about $50.
.
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