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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFSand FAT drives/partitions?
Cronos wrote:
wrote: I don't know which is worse. Watching it in 1993, or admitting doing so in 2009 Windows7 and Vista don't have any pretty displays, what is the world coming to? Michael Some of the 3rd party ones do so you will have to buy one of them if you still want to see the pretty blocks. In 1993 it was just two colors, red and blue blocks but that was enough for us back then. There are at least a dozen free defragmenters that have nice interfaces. There may be some differences in the features (such as point-and-drool interfaces to configure scheduling - if anyone still thinks that's relevant), but otherwise they all do pretty much the same job. I can't think why anyone would /buy/ a defragmenter these days. |
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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFSand FAT drives/partitions?
David Brown wrote:
I can't think why anyone would /buy/ a defragmenter these days. To watch the pretty blocks move around. |
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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFSand FAT drives/partitions?
Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote: I can't think why anyone would /buy/ a defragmenter these days. To watch the pretty blocks move around. Try: http://www.mydefrag.com/ http://www.techmixer.com/ultradefrag-free-windows-disk-defragment-utility/ (or anything else from Google) The point is, you don't have to pay to watch the pretty blocks - you can get it for free. |
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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFSand FAT drives/partitions?
Run Linux, an OS that does not cause disks to become fragmented in the first place. |
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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFS andFAT drives/partitions?
On Dec 23, 3:51*pm, JimR wrote:
Run Linux, an OS that does not cause disks to become fragmented in the first place. All file systems have some fragmentation, but FAT is probably the worst as it is often implemented by low operating systems. exFat is a better file system as it maintains a bitmap of clusters used. This bit map makes it easier to allocate a contingous range of clusters. Michael |
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What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFS andFAT drives/partitions?
On Dec 23, 6:52*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
wrote JimR wrote Run Linux, an OS that does not cause disks to become fragmented in the first place. All file systems have some fragmentation, Nope, there are a few that never fragment at all. They just refuse to write a file when there is no block big enough to write the file to and only allow a file to be extended into the free space that follows it. RT-11 is an example of that. but FAT is probably the worst as it is often implemented by low operating systems. That has nothing to do with the file system, everything to do with how its implemented. exFat is a better file system as it maintains a bitmap of clusters used.. This bit map makes it easier to allocate a contingous range of clusters..- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - DEC were probably just mean and didn't want to write a pretty defragger! No fragmentation means that disks are very hard to utilise fully - unless files are moved (ie in effect defragged) on the fly |
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