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Disk Defragmenter Question
Is it normal for Disk Defragmenter to Analyze the disk AFTER it defragments?
I know it does it before and then I click 'Defrag Now' and it proceeds to defrag my hard drive. But today I was watching it and noticed that all of a sudden it stopped defragmenting and the info changed to 'Analyzing disk...'. Thanks, James |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
its when the defrag fail.. rerun the defrag.. -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
you will get the report when it ends like the percentage it defraged.. what i advise is run the disk analysis first.. if the reports says "this volume needs defrag" then run the defrag .. if it says "this volume dont need defrag" don't worry about running the defrag.. rather run ccleaner or cookies cleaning software to clean your pc pending on why you want to defrag your volume.. Regards -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
If the disk analyse says the disk needs defrag then defrag it.. if it says "the disk dont need defrag" so why defrag it.. it will make no difference.. better run ccleaner to delete cookies or other temporary files if you feel that your pc is too loaded.. does that make sense?? -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
James,
That won't help. What is probably happening is that a file that need defragmenting is in use by the operating system and cannot be easily moved at the time being... or maybe ever. Usually the best course of action is to shutdown all items in the task tray, shutdown any unneccessary services and try defragmenting again if you really want to get the defragmenting perfect. However, this usually isn't necessary to go to great lengths. Usually the recomended course of action is: a) Run checkdisk (scandisk) or other checking utility on the volume first. b) Then run defragmenting software. Good Luck, James K "JamesJ" wrote in message ... Shouldn't it defrag if I request it? Maybe I'll get a third party defragger. James "ashvin" wrote in message ... you will get the report when it ends like the percentage it defraged.. what i advise is run the disk analysis first.. if the reports says "this volume needs defrag" then run the defrag .. if it says "this volume dont need defrag" don't worry about running the defrag.. rather run ccleaner or cookies cleaning software to clean your pc pending on why you want to defrag your volume.. Regards -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
JamesJ wrote:
Is it normal for Disk Defragmenter to Analyze the disk AFTER it defragments? I know it does it before and then I click 'Defrag Now' and it proceeds to defrag my hard drive. But today I was watching it and noticed that all of a sudden it stopped defragmenting and the info changed to 'Analyzing disk...'. Thanks, James Is your file system in FAT32? If so, that's why the defrag keeps repeating and taking so long. Convert your drive to NTFS. Alias |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
you can always use this defrag, it a lot quicker than the orignal defragger.
google - auslogics disk defrag "JamesJ" wrote in message ... I forgot to ask one thing. If I'm n ot watching how will I know if it didn't fail?? James "ashvin" wrote in message ... its when the defrag fail.. rerun the defrag.. -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
Na. It's been NTFS for years.
"Alias" wrote in message ... JamesJ wrote: Is it normal for Disk Defragmenter to Analyze the disk AFTER it defragments? I know it does it before and then I click 'Defrag Now' and it proceeds to defrag my hard drive. But today I was watching it and noticed that all of a sudden it stopped defragmenting and the info changed to 'Analyzing disk...'. Thanks, James Is your file system in FAT32? If so, that's why the defrag keeps repeating and taking so long. Convert your drive to NTFS. Alias |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
"Doesn't need defragging" .ne. "Isn't fragmented".
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:01 -0500, JamesJ wrote: I can remember one instance where disk analyses told me the 'disk didn't need defrag' but when I went ahead and defragged anyhow the process took well over 2 hours. Sure took a long time do defrag for a disk that didn't need defragmenting. James "ashvin" wrote in message ... If the disk analyse says the disk needs defrag then defrag it.. if it says "the disk dont need defrag" so why defrag it.. it will make no difference.. better run ccleaner to delete cookies or other temporary files if you feel that your pc is too loaded.. does that make sense?? -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom |
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Disk Defragmenter Question
WHAT IS DEFRAGGING? Defragging is process done to a hard disk in order to improve performance and recover some lost disk space. Defragging is an essential part of a PC's upkeep as it keeps all the data on your hard disk in an easily readable order. If a hard disk is left without defragging, then over time the disk will begin to lose performance and also slowly reduce the available capacity to data. As you will be aware if your hard disk is running slowly then this will affect the rest of the system performance, in all applications and especially in games, where frame rate is important. *How does Defragging improve performance?* When you defrag your hard disk you re-arrange the order in which the data is stored on the drive. The PC will arrange the data so that data that belongs together and needs to be read together is actually put in the same place on the drive. The obvious question here is why doesn't the PC store the data in the correct way in the first place? In an ideal situation (such as a blank disk) the PC would do these as a first option. However with the amount of data being deleted and wrote to the disk every second the PC is on it is no wonder that the data cannot be stored together. Lets have a look at an example. Say you write 3 files to a disk all 10Mb in size the data would look like this when written to a blank disk. [image: http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Art...s/defrag1.gif] This is how your PC would prefer to store the data for maximum performance. It stands to reason that this is how you would like it to be stored as well if you needed to search for the data. But now lets say that you decide to delete file 2 as its no longer any use to you. The disk would look like this. [image: http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Art...s/defrag2.gif] You now have a file 4 that is being written to the disk, but this time the file 15Mb in size. When the PC stores the data on the hard disk this time, its not as easy. -- ashvin Just chill -pls post your feedback on my reputation, would be of great help to fine tune and provide better support..- |
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