best defrag (free hopefully) to use?

[Paul]

I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my
disk.

I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or
two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or
the drive map fragmentation.

What works better and is free or trial?

 

[John Weiss]

I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of
my disk.

I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day
or two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file
opening or the drive map fragmentation.

Disconnect your machine from any network, clean out all Temp files, shut
down all background tasks and non-essential Services, and run it again. If
possible, temporarily offload several GB of data files to DVD or another HD.

What works better and is free or trial?

Nothing. The Defragmenter included in XP does a reasonable job, though.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

I am using Diskkeeper and it is not making a dent in the fragmentaiton of my
disk.

I have 42GB with 16GB free. I have run diskkeeper continuously for a day or
two and it makes almost no difference to percieved speed of file opening or
the drive map fragmentation.

What works better and is free or trial?

Have you tried defragging in safe mode?

Bill