Re: Defragmenting local drives on servers

Tech Tip: Click here to run a free scan for Windows Errors and optimize PC performance

Built in defrag is fine. Don't get carried away. I only do mine about once
every 6 months to a year. Defrag is highly overrated by many, IMHO.
Although good at times (when the system tells you your drive is fragmented
enough to make it worthwhile), there is no point in running it excessively.
And, there is always a risk when running any defrag util.

-Frank

"joe0874" <joe0874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:29F999A1-6680-4476-A6FA-F008672BA796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unfortunately, we have not had a policy in place for general server
> maintenance such as defragmentation. As such, many of the servers report
> that
> the local drives are severely fragmented.
>
> My question is, would it be worthwhile to use the built in defragmenter,
> or
> would using a 3rd party tool (DiskKeeper?) be easier?


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Outlook Express error message
    ... try and put OUTLOOK EXPRESS on a floppy ... "Alias" wrote in message ... Who built the computer? ... > Administrator, do a clean up, dskchk and defrag. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress)
  • RE: Cant Defragment Completely
    ... "Ray Mitchell" wrote: ... > I am using WinXP Pro on a Dell Latitude P4 laptop with an 18GB hard disk ... When I run the built ... Try O and O defrag theres 5 different ways to do the defrag so 1 will suit ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: Changing Fat32 to NTFS et al
    ... Here is the report after the second round of defrag with the built in tool ... Volume fragmentation ... Pagefile fragmentation ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
  • Re: Cant Defragment Completely
    ... I prefer perfect disk to O&O or diskkeeper... ... do an offline defrag first - no matter what it tells you to do. ... I ran the built in disk cleanup utility ... Are there any disk utilities that will move all files to the beginning ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: Dfrag takes for ever.
    ... >>Regarding your slow defrag. ... Were you using the built in tool ... > wasn't fragmented enough before SP2 to need a defrag, ... > And I'd DEARLY love to see some real hard core stopwatch timings ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)