Disk Degragmenter

[parttimetechie]

What would you techies recommend for a good windows XP looking disk defragmenter for Windows 7 where I can see little collored lins or blocks of my disk? I want a program which doesn't take up any resources unless I tell it to defrag, and is a lightweight program.

 

[Crgky127]

http://www.mydefrag.com/

 

[parttimetechie]

That doesn't appear to have the type of graphical interface I was looking for. A bit too cluttered for my tastes.

 

[gikstar]

How about defraggler ... www.piriform.com/defraggler/download

That's what I like to use.

 

[MobileTechie]

Thing is Windows 7 does a good job at keeping defragmented on its own anyway.

 

[glricht]

There are a number of good ones out there. I personally use Auslogic's disk defrag. It also has a portable version that I often use when on-site.

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

 

[Knightsman]

How about defraggler ... www.piriform.com/defraggler/download

That's what I like to use.

+1. This program rocks!

 

[Xander]

Defraggler's "df.exe" and "df64.exe" also support command line.

Win7 has a built-in defrag but I find, sometimes, it's a little liberal with its decisions and I like turn hand things over tight as a drum. I batch-run df.exe 5 times to get it down to 0%.

 

[KDs]

Smart Defrag is a good one.

 

[MobileTechie]

It's worth bearing in mind that non-MS defragging can destroy Shadow Copies.

 

[parttimetechie]

A shadow copy is what exactly? Like a Norton Ghost or Macrium Image?

 

[ATTech]

A shadow copy is what exactly? Like a Norton Ghost or Macrium Image?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_copy

 

[ajc196]

Another vote for Defraggler. It's portable, can be used in any Windows PE distro, free, and has support for boot-time defrags and scheduling.

Or..... you could just get an SSD and forget about defragging for good.

 

[Xander]

We're not quite there, ajc196. I've got an SSD for my C: but most of my data/docs/videos are on my D: (NTFS SATA).... it gets defragged regularly.

 

[ajc196]

Yep, mass storage has to stay on the archaic HDD's, I'm in the same boat. Bench machine currently has a 60GB Corsair Force. My 3 1TB storage drives get defragged and CHKDSK'd so often it's ridiculous. But when you backup lots and lots of drives and then delete them to make room for newer customers, it happens.

 

[parttimetechie]

How do you guys like the SSD? Are they as fast as I have seen in youtube videos? Bootup in like 45 seconds?

 

[ajc196]

Yep, they're everything and more. Actual boot times and speeds vary based on SSD brands, controllers, drivers, firmware, chipsets, etc.

For example, my bench machine boots in about 40 seconds with 3 HDD's and 2 ODD's attached. With only the SSD, the system boots up in roughly 20-25 seconds.

But, the speed increase is still there, regardless. Even cheaper drives that have sequential read/writes similar to a fast HDD will still murder them in small, random read/writes (which gives you the "snappy" feeling).

 

[ATTech]

How do you guys like the SSD? Are they as fast as I have seen in youtube videos? Bootup in like 45 seconds?

My HTPC with an Atom procoessor's record is 9 second boot for XP.

 

[parttimetechie]

My boot time is about 45 seconds with two hard disks and one optical. Would I get much of a boost if I put my OS disk on a SSD?

 

[AdamsAPlus]

+1 vote for defraggler