Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool?

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From: Chris Phillipo
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00

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> >> >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.

I don't have the retail Disk keeper, you can't set it to anything but on
or off. Quite frankly I think it's ridiculous that we have to go out and
buy a defragger for Microsoft files systems that are so prone to
fragmentation.  I wonder what they are doing with that 20 cents a copy
they save by not including one with NT.


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From: Chris Phillipo <delmecphillip@cbnet.ns.ca>
Subject: Re: Defrag for NTFS?  Recommended tool?
Date: 1998/09/06
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