Defrag Program... What Do You Use?

tomd84

What programs do you use and recommend for defragging your hard drive apart from the windows tool

Thanks Tom :-)

primeramikey

I would highly recommend Diskeeper. been using it for a while now and cant fault it..

its currently at version 10..

it also has a scheduling feature and smart defrag tool, so that when ya drive gets to a certain point of fragmentation it kicks in and defrags for you..

www.diskeeper.com

albertross_2

Unless your disk is getting full on a regular basis, and you are continually deleting stuff, then defragging makes very little difference on a modern drive, certainly not enough to warrant paying for software. The one built into XP is diskeeper, albeit a cut down version.

Rev

I use O&O Defrag. Been using it for a while now, can't fault it.

sco0ter

I use Ashampoo Magical defrag... It continually defrags whe you are not using your PC and then switches off when you do. Good if you are downloading large files it will defrag while you are waiting.

MickKnipfler

What's wrong with the xp tool?

sco0ter

Xp tool can take absolute ages and will only do a half decent job

wolfman

It doesn't defrag the Master File Table (MFT) if you use NTFS as your file system. Plus, yes it takes ages.

Quincy_3

sco0ter wrote:

Xp tool can take absolute ages and will only do a half decent job

Only if the drive is FAT32 not NTFS I use the inbuilt tool and it zips along mind you it also depends on how full a drive is.

Toxteth_OGrady

O&O gets my vote.

:cool:

TOG

Quincy_3

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

O&O gets my vote.

:cool:

TOG

Is that free? and have you a genuine link please.