Re: Defrag problems

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:51:03 -0800, Rickster wrote:

>I'm looking for any/all help on this. I am running Windows XP Pro on two
>250GB Western Digital SataII drives, set up in a Raid0. Everything was great
>until I recently tried to run defrag. I analyzed the volume and was told "you
>should defrag this volume". I did, and it ran fine. After doing it, I
>analyzed the drive once again and that I was once again told "you should
>defrag this volume". The same case occurred even after a complete reboot.
>Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Any and all help is
>greatly appreciated!

Rickster,

the built-in defragmenting tool is not the best in the world. My
recommendation would be to buy and install PerfectDisk (current
version: 7), then run the offline defrag, followed by a normal
online defrag run.

And read http://winhlp.com/WxDefrag.htm .

Hans-Georg

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