Defragmentor?

I was wondering if Diskeeper lite was really a good defrag. tool? I'm trying to get a free one. Can anybody recommend something that they've had good results with perhaps?

Thanks, guys.

 

I have used Diskeeper & O and O defrag both are excellant,

 

Another vote for Diskeeper.

Steve

 

perfectdisk or O&O.

 

Sorry about that, I'm using 98.

 

My 2 cents: Diskeeper Lite works very well, and I'd recommend it.
-522.

 

I Agree with that.

Diskeeper would have speed advantage on win98

 

I use XP Home and for some reason, when I try to defrag it reads something like, 'Defragmentor is not installed on your computer, please go to the add/programs menu and follow the instuctions' Yet my defrag.exe file is in my computer.

I downloaded DefragMentor Lite 1.0
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4095
and
Pagedefrag 2.3
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=603

I have been surviving this way. I had not heard of Diskeeper Lite so I will try that tonight. If that doesn't work, you may wish to try the ones above. They start at boot.

Regarding my own defrag problem, it's something I hope the folks here can help me with sometime.

 

I 'used' to like DiskKepper, but now its PerfectDisk or nothing!

 

I may try that. I installed diskeeper and this is my report:

Findings on C:

Diskeeper has completed a defragmentation run on this volume and there remain 488 fragmented files and/or directories and 10138 excess fragments. (There were 24531 excess fragments before the defragmentation run, and now there are 58% less.)

The average number of fragments per file is 1.28.

On average, you have 28% excess fragments per file on this volume, with 4% of the total volume space available for defragmentation. This level of free space is critically low and performance is suffering badly from that fact alone. Indeed, fragmentation is the least of your worries under these conditions. Clear some files off this volume to achieve a minimum of 20% free space for acceptable performance.

 

I have XP, and I just use it's own defragger. Someone suggested to me to run the defrag in safe mode, and turn off the screensaver.

How I understand it;
1. Turn off your screensaver.
2. Reboot the computer and tap F8 until you access the safe mode menu.
3. Choose safe mode, then defrag.

Hope this helps!

 

Hiya Tex
I would seriously consider doing a checkdisk - based on a similar and minor prob I had a few days ago. From what I gather - if you run a defrag when Windows is running, a fair proportion of Windows files will not be defragged because Windows denies access to the defragging process. Hence doing it in safe mode is a better proposition. In my case "chkdsc c: /f " at bootup solved a similar problem by presumably finding the windows file in a crook sector - fixing sector and restoring the file. Far as I know!
Give it a try
Cheers
Robert

 

I had not thought of that. Before my computer thought derfag.exe wasn't installed, I did defrag in safe mode a few times but I never thought about certain files not defragmenting because windows was running but that make sense. I'll try that.

Thanks

Now if I can just figure out why my XP Home update doesn't think my defrag is even installed. I think I found a manual fix somewhere but it was pretty complicated.

 

Paging File Woes

If i could jump in....
I, too am having defrag problems. Wicked slow computer, boss said use this Diskeeper program. Ran it. It said not enough space. Got rid of a bunch of stuff. Re-tested it. It said Reliability is "CRITICAL". Instructed me to run a boot-up defrag so the 27,323 fragmented paging files could be repaired. I did so. Saw with my eyes the computer going through the paging files. Re-ran diskkeeper to see what it did...nothing apparently. 27,323 fragmented paging files remained.

Went back to Norton disc doctor. It has a RED warning saying 45% was fragmented. Ran that. Speed Disk gave me a nice picture of a healthy hard drive after it did its magic.

Went back to Diskeeper. Retested. 27,323 still.

Any suggestions?

Much appreciated

 

Norton lies!

 

Reage Filing Woes

I heard that Norton might not be top dog anymore with Disc maintenance. But should i listen to Diskeeper any more?

Diskeeper should be able to read and fix my Page Files, right?

 

Dickeeper follow-up

In the middle of the boot-time defragmentation...after Stage 0 found the files, Diskeeper then said that it had to abort bc there was not enough contiguous free space...??

The disc is only ~50% full

Must I find contigous free space for Diskeeper to defrag my paging Files?

 

Follow-up II

For whatever reason Diskeeper would not fix the paging files because it said there was no contiguous free space.

Someone recommended PageDefrag and that did the trick. Page Files nice and orderly now.
Thanks for the help
TC