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Article #67Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool?
From: Ed H.
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
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Chris Phillipo <delmecphillip@cbnet.ns.ca> wrote: >Ed H. wrote: >> >> How could defragging make the situation worse? >> >> "William W. Plummer" <wplummer@V-sign.com> wrote: >> >> >I don't like the Norton product, although I don't have a better >> >recommendation. I found that repeatedly running defrag doesn't improve >> >things. In fact, sometimes it makes the situation worse. Try it! --Bill > >If you run defrag while other things are going on, the increased I/O >does indeed cause more fragmantation than when you started. Silly me. I was assuming you had Diskeeper set to a low background priority so it wouldn't take away from system performance and potentially increase defragmentation. I guess if you misuse any tool, it won't work as advertised. -- _______________________ Ed Hansberry xxxxxhans@usit.net - If you want to send me email, you know what to do with the xxxxx.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115135,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gid115135,public X-Google-Thread: fa335,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa335,public X-Google-Thread: fb9cd,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9cd,public X-Google-Thread: 104ed6,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ed6,public X-Google-Thread: fb96d,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb96d,public From: nospam@usit.net (Ed H.) Subject: Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool? Date: 1998/09/06 Message-ID: <35f2c738.19269758@msnews.microsoft.com> X-Deja-AN: 388450901 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <357C2FE0.1D44F1D5@ThePentagon.com> <01bd9510$4c00d420$0100007f@darland> <MPG.fea19ae1e524bf49896ea@news.frii.com> <MPG.fea1c1832bed84e98969a@news1.newscene.com> <35d35c2e.212563850@news.magmacom.com> <35d91c0c.34686859@207.68.144.14> <35d7617f.397010657@news.magmacom.com> <6r63ud$mjj$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <6rb0e1$1ul4@sandy.max-net.com> <35D932F2.73C73401@netcom.ca> <6si3is$ruj$1@supernews.com> <35ef2273.40120920@msnews.microsoft.com> <35F19851.ED07067@cbnet.ns.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,cis.winnt.general,at.tuwien.os.winnt