defrag status

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Laurent Herve

Hi,

I just would like to see on win me if the disk need to be defraged.
Any tools for that ? Beside of booting to dos, and to launch
scandisk, which is exactly what i need, but on windows...

I have NU 2001 but don't want to install several Mo of
stuff i don't need.

thanks,

laurent
 
|Hi,
|
| I just would like to see on win me if the disk need to be defraged.
|Any tools for that ? Beside of booting to dos, and to launch
|scandisk, which is exactly what i need, but on windows...
|
|I have NU 2001 but don't want to install several Mo of
|stuff i don't need.

You could always go here http://www.pcpitstop.com/ and run the Disk
Health test.
 
Tramp said:
|Hi,
|
| I just would like to see on win me if the disk need to be defraged.
|Any tools for that ? Beside of booting to dos, and to launch
|scandisk, which is exactly what i need, but on windows...
|
|I have NU 2001 but don't want to install several Mo of
|stuff i don't need.

You could always go here http://www.pcpitstop.com/ and run the Disk
Health test.
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Fine, only the conclusion is still desesperating, even after running
defrag :

Drive C Statistics
Volume Size 3 GB
Used Space 2.05 GB
Free Space 947 MB
Total Files 18850
Cluster Size 4 KB

Health Analysis
Initial Scan Result OK. No crosslinked files.
Percent of Data Fragmented 25 %
Percent of Files Fragmented 1 %
Total Fragmented Files 160
Total Excess Fragments 3646
Average Fragments per File 1.19
Overall Disk Health Poor. Very high fragmentation levels.
Recommendations Use a disk defragmenter as soon as possible to improve
perform


I ran windows defrag yesterday and get today :

Average Fragments per File 1.23

now after running defrag again

Average Fragments per File 1.19.
 
Laurent said:
Hi,

I just would like to see on win me if the disk need to be
defraged. Any tools for that ? Beside of booting to dos, and to
launch scandisk, which is exactly what i need, but on windows...

I have NU 2001 but don't want to install several Mo of
stuff i don't need.

thanks,

laurent
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CrackUp will indicate amount of fragmentation. Worked well in Win9x.
Don't know about WinME. Used to be freely available from PC Mag.
Can still be found on the Net. One place:
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/crackup.zip
Good Luck.
 
Recluseman35 said:
CrackUp will indicate amount of fragmentation. Worked well in Win9x.
Don't know about WinME. Used to be freely available from PC Mag.
Can still be found on the Net. One place:
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/crackup.zip
Good Luck.
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Also nice would be the ability to shut down winME to dos,
then do sanreg or whatever, in dos and then restart windows.

There is a patch to get real dos in win ME but i never found the
explanations of how to start windows from dos, or shut down
to dos, for win ME.

Lh
 
Laurent said:
Hi,

I just would like to see on win me if the disk need to be defraged.
Any tools for that ? Beside of booting to dos, and to launch
scandisk, which is exactly what i need, but on windows...

I have NU 2001 but don't want to install several Mo of
stuff i don't need.

thanks,

laurent
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Hi, Laurent.

The simple approach is that if you think that your disk is fragmented,
it usually is. Fragmentation builds up rather quickly.

After trying various trick defrag utilities, I decided to just do the
defragmentation using the plain defragmenter that comes free with
Windows ME itself! Look for it: it's there.

It is quite good, it's reliable, and above all else, it is safe. As far
as I know, this is essentially the program that Peter Norton wrote a
long while ago. My only complaint about it is that it doesn't display
its progress as well as it used to when it was Norton's own -- as I
recall, Peter Norton sold his enterprise to Symantec, who then licensed
Norton's defrag to Microsoft.

I am still using the former (pre-acquisition!!!) version of System Suite
for overall system maintenance (and I'm not saying that the "acquired"
version is any better). Its defragmenter is supposed to run really fast;
the instructions tell you to be sure to run Scandisk before using the
defrag routine. Well, let's see: why would they say that? Because the
way that they obtain the lightning speed is to elminate the safeties!!!

One way to utterly trash your hard disk contents is to have a power
hiccup while defragmenting it -- that is, if one vital step is
eliminated. That step is to write data to an unused disk area before
deleting the original data locations; the final step being to rewrite
the data to a more efficient location. After giving this some thought, I
went back to the trusty Microsoft routine.

Richard
 
"Laurent Herve" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Also nice would be the ability to shut down winME to dos,
then do sanreg or whatever, in dos and then restart windows.
Click to expand...
There is a patch to get real dos in win ME but i never found the
explanations of how to start windows from dos, or shut down
to dos, for win ME.
Click to expand...

It's been quite awhile since I've used ME, but I got the Real Mode DOS
patch here:

http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/

As to starting DOS from Windows, if I can recall correctly:

Right click your desktop and choose New\Shortcut.

Browse and find "command.com" in your root, or possibly in the Windows
directory. Name it MS-DOS. Select Full Screen (you'll have to type
Exit to boot back into ME). There might be a bit more tweaking in the
settings... it's been too long.


You can setup a choice to boot to DOS in your "autoexec.bat" file:

Note the instruction to add this line:

Add to the bottom of "AUTOEXEC.BAT" the line: "C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM".

That actually starts Win ME.

The patch contains sample "config.sys" and "autoexec.bat" files that
provide you with a boot selection:

"Instead of editing your own files to create a startup menu, you can
copy the "CONFIG.SYS" and "AUTOEXEC.BAT" included in this release to
"C:\". These files provide a convenient configuration of a startup
menu."

It works like a charm!

What was MS thinking?
 
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