need defrag program for XP

Windows XP defrag program only lets you defrag one hard drive at a time.
Is there a defrag program for XP that will let me defrag all hard drives at once??
Please give download URL.
thanks

 

JKDefrag .I like this one,seems to work very good.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5542.html

 

Please read the following very, very, carefully.
XP defrag program only lets you defrag one hard drive at a time.
Is there a defrag program for XP that will let me defrag all hard drives at once??
That does not mean defrag one after the other.
It means defrag all four of my hard drives simultaenously.

 

Got you now, Quark. Don't know if there is one out there. It would take a lot of memory and CPU resources to do more than one drive at a time.

 

Norton Utilities does it for Win98, but not for XP.

I dont care how much it taxes my system, I got more memory and CPU resources than you can shake a stick at.

 

You basically want to automate this so that you don't need to separately start defragmentation on each drive, right? One option here might be to use Task Scheduler; see How to Automate Disk Defragmenter Using Task Scheduler Tool in Windows XP

 

NOPE, thats defraging consecutively.
I want to defrag all four of my hard drives simultaenously.
See dictionary definition of the word "simultaneously"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=simultaneously

 

Eh, right ...., I know what simultaneously means. rolleyes But, would doing that really get the job done any faster than doing them sequentially? The drive has to do the same amount of work, either way.

Well, anyway, I'll stay tuned to this channel. I'm curious to see whether anybody knows of a defragmenter that will do this.

 

I was not trying to be rude or insulting, I just wanted to be understood.
If wanted to be rude, I can assure you, that I would have done so in no uncertain terms.

 

yes, defragging 4 drives it would be nearly 4 times as fast to do them simultaneously.
I have seen it done on Win98 using Norton Speed Disk.

 

OK, can we just clarify one point here? You're talking about 4 physical hard drives, not a single drive with 4 partitions, right? If you're talking about 4 physical hard drives, then I agree with you.

 

ya 4 physical hard drives.

(under certain conditions virtual drives as well, but im not going to debate that here.)

 

thanks
ill give it a try

 

Something you might be interested in:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/defrag-multiple-hard-drives-at-once-in-windows/

http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/10/10/defrag_multiple_drives_in_windows_xp

Steve

 

Is O&O Defrag Professional Edition 10.0.1634 FREE, for personal use? :confused Bazza

 

Thanks Halo. :cry I suspected as much. I thought I'd ask anyhow. Bazza

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NOPE, thats defraging consecutively.
I want to defrag all four of my hard drives simultaenously.
The things you suggested were already suggested to me just a few posts down from here, to which I replied with the above statement. I'm looking for help on this topic, not redundant inadequate replies. If you are incapable of reading back just a few posts and understanding how a topic has been proceeding and choose instead to just simply blurt out a redundant inadequate reply, i would appreciate it if you would simply avoid any of my threads all together.
Thank you

 

Did you notice that I said "might" be interested in. You better stop trying to argue with member's trying to help you........NOW.

Do you understand that?

Steve

 

i wont know that till i download and try it.
ill be sure to let you know how it works.

 

Yup, works great, does just what i want. Thanks for finding it for me.

SOLVED

 

FYI: perfectdisk will defrag multiple drives at the same time.
personally i like perfect disk better than O&O because of it's "smart-placement" feature-and its much simpler interface.


http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

good luck.

 

Diskeeper also defrags multiple drives simultaneously, with the additional option of automatic defrag. I've run simultaneous manual defrag on two volumes (actually 2 different partitions on 2 physical drives), but it didn't seem to cause any performance issues. Never tried manual defrag on 4 simultaneously though.