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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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The only free ones I know of are the Defrag that comes with Windows, and using Explorer to copy files off the drive, and back on. -- |
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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There is something called "dirms" (with some strange capitalization), which is a command line defragmenter. I've heard from one of my friends that it's pretty good, but haven't checked myself (I use Diskeeeper). Oh, Diskeeper Lite is also supposedly free, at least I remember hearing that it is. I don't know how many features were taken out of it, but if its half as good as the complete one, it's worth a try. --------------------------- |
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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I "defragged" at 14.5% (it asks for 15) over night and when I woke up it was still on 1% of compressing files. Last night, I "defragged" my computer with 15% and now that Red Alert file is in 19.3 thousand fragments. Bad Windows! ... Bad! I'll try again tonight, I already removed GTA:SA. -----sig: |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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The Windows Defrag utility is about the stupidest one out there. I hear theres some commandline tool thats pretty good. -- |
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Quote: I'll try again tonight, I already removed GTA:SA.
Don't try the Windows Defragger again unless you want to endanger your mental health --------------------------- |
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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Actually, the third time fixed most of it except the biggest files (which unfortunately includes the page file). By defraging, it has gained 7 GB of free space. But yeah, I'll have to look for a better, third party one. -----sig: |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Diskeeper Lite worked fine today. |
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. I made some free suggestions in the post above, they're both bound to do better than the bundled one. It simply isn't possible to create a slower and crappier defragger. The one time I used it, it achieved a 2% gain in the "average fragments per file" category, after running for, I don't know, 6 to 8 hours?
