Defraggler

Bodaggit23

Bodaggit23

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I just spent about an hour defragging my 200Gig partition,
and Defraggler says it's still 33% fragmented. (full defrag, not quick)

Am I missing something?

Defraggler.jpg
 
Depends first time using it?
If so your drive COULD be that bad. Also some tools move files around for faster seek times which takes a lot longer. First time I defrag using Auslogics it took 20 minutes but that is my guess.

If you use to use windows defrag then I can see why its taking some time.
 
Let it go overnight and see what it says in the morning. That's what I typically do. Heck I ran Contig on my girlfriend's laptop (before Defraggler came out :P) It ran all night and even some during the next day! It's a 200GB drive as well, processor's a T5250, so nothing too slow. These things take time.
 
It completed the defrag...

My issue is not that it took too long, so I stopped it.

It finished, and the drive is still 33% fragmented.

The screenshot is after it completed and I re analyzed.
 
Sometimes this happens with my Defraggler defrags, too.

What I do to fix this is click Analyze, then go up and click View Files.
The view will change and all the still-fragmented files will show up. Put a checkmark in the box up on the left to check them all, then go back down and click "Defrag Checked".

If there still are fragmented files after that, just leave well enough alone; you're done. :D
 
Wow.

I just re analyzed the drive and now it says the drive is 4% fragmented.

I have no confidence in this software. :mad:
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Wow.

I just re analyzed the drive and now it says the drive is 4% fragmented.

I have no confidence in this software. :mad:
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I think what your missing here is it was telling you it was 33%....when you "analyzed" it updated and showed what the new % was. I never used defraggler...I like Auslogics :)
 
1. Opened the program, analyzed the drive. I think it was around 65% fragmented. (definitely needed to defrag)
2. I defragged (took about an hour) until completed.
3. Status said the drive was still fragmented (33%), right after the scan
4. Closed the program
5. Analyzed the drive again, same 33%
6. Rebooted my pc, re analyzed the drive, now says 4% fragmentation

My issue is, when Defraggler is done, it shows false information.

The same thing happened on my media pc in my living room, and I hadn't
used it since, but I've not run any defrag on this machine since I built it.

I used to use Perfect Disk, but my old version doesn't work with Vista x64. :(

I think I'll try Auslogics.
 
To be honest, disk fragmentation is a very small problem these days. Most modern file systems (NTFS, HFS+, ext2, ext3, reiser, and so forth) all pretty much support journaling and are self maintained and optimized.

Now, that is not to say that fragmentation doesn't happen. Here is a decent article on the basic level, but it is a few years old.

http://www.pcmech.com/article/file-systems-which-need-defragmenting/

I know that NTFS in the last few years has had some significant improvements with the releases of Vista and Windows 7. Unless you are modifying, removing, and adding large amounts of data (or large quantities of small amounts of data) then I highly doubt your disk will fragment all that much.

Even in Windows XP, MS added in journal support for their file system, which helped mitigate disk fragmentation a lot. I am not saying that it doesn't happen, I am just saying it really shouldn't be that much of an issue.

I would also like to know how those applications analyze the disk, are they actually reading the journal files?
 
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