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March 15th 07, 10:36 AM
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RAID and defrag does not work
I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon
Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet? 
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March 15th 07, 10:51 AM
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RAID and defrag does not work
I have Vista Ultimate on a Raid 0 Volume and can defrag W/out a problem, but
I have an Intel raid system. "David" wrote: I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet?
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March 15th 07, 11:01 AM
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RAID and defrag does not work
Ok.
So, then, has anyone with a RAID-1 setup done a defrag? "DBRASCO" wrote: I have Vista Ultimate on a Raid 0 Volume and can defrag W/out a problem, but I have an Intel raid system. "David" wrote: I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet?
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March 16th 07, 06:34 AM
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RAID and defrag does not work
Actually, I can now answer some of my own question. The Defrag does not work
in Safe-mode. It will work in normal mode. In XP, I always used to do a Defrag in Safe-mode to prevent constant re-starting of the defrag process. "David" wrote: I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet?
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March 16th 07, 02:48 PM
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RAID and defrag does not work
yes, but not under VISTA ....
Is your NTFS cluster size larger than 4K ? if yes, you wont be able to use the provided MS tools. - NuTs "David" wrote in message ... Ok. So, then, has anyone with a RAID-1 setup done a defrag? "DBRASCO" wrote: I have Vista Ultimate on a Raid 0 Volume and can defrag W/out a problem, but I have an Intel raid system. "David" wrote: I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet?
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March 17th 07, 10:32 PM
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RAID and defrag does not work
Some further progress. I downloaded both Seagate's 'SeaTools' and Western
Digital's HDD test software. Could not get any of Seagate stuff to work. Under Vista I just gt 'exception handler' error messages. Under DOS-boot it could not even see the HDD's. The Western Digital Windows test worked. Did not find any errors. I also noticed that the HDD S.M.A.R.T. option in my BIOS was set to 'disbaled' which I have now changed. So far today, no HDD errors reported by Vista. I still think Vista has its knickers in a knot about this. "David" wrote: Actually, I can now answer some of my own question. The Defrag does not work in Safe-mode. It will work in normal mode. In XP, I always used to do a Defrag in Safe-mode to prevent constant re-starting of the defrag process. "David" wrote: I have recently ugraded XP to Vista Business. I have a RAID-1 with Silicon Raid drivers. The computer works fine as it used to but I find that the Vista defrag command in the C-drive properties box does not work, i.e. nothing happens. I was wondering if defrag does not work because the 2 HDD drives are set up as RAID-1, or if Vista has a problem? Has anyone done a defragment on their hard drive under Vista yet?
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