defragment strategy

[davetest]

Hello -
I've a 16GB C: partition, about 5Gb is windows itself and
other misc. small files, program files, etc.
While about 7 GB is made up of
about 10 big multimedia files - mpg and avi,
leaving about 4GB free.

Defragmenting this drive in this condition is next to impossible.
The defragmenter attempts to defragment the massive media files
and it takes forever.

I would like to tell the defragmentor to ignore the big files -
defragmenting them provides no benefit. They're not accessed in a
manner that makes any difference whether they are defragged or not.

I realize I can move them off to another volume temporarily,
but this scenario must occur quite often in real life.

DO any of the third-party defragmentor have anything that
may handle this a little more intelligently?

Dave

 

[Guest]

When and how you Defrag makes a diffrence,if another volume exist on youre
system the better.Open system properties,advanced,settings,advanced,
click the change button.Then for C: drive,select no page file,click set 2X,then
close out,restart computer,doing a disk chk on this restart deletes the page
file(another alt.),back on desktop,open cmd,typeefrag C: Then exit when thru,
re-open system prop.,for C: select let windows manage or prior settings,click
set 2X,close out.w/o disk chk selected,windows overwrites the page file,with
it now creates one,then close-out restart computer.This way Defrag is more
efficient,able to do more since it has no page file.

 

[Hilary Karp]

You can try PerfectDisk from www.raxco.com. It will run in as little as
5% free space. The other popular third party defragmeter is Diskeeper
from Executive Software. That needs at least 30% or more free space to
run.

 

[davetest]

You can try PerfectDisk from www.raxco.com. It will run in as little as
5% free space. The other popular third party defragmeter is Diskeeper
from Executive Software. That needs at least 30% or more free space to
run.

Thanks for the info.
It's not lack of free space I'm concerned about, but
the fact that the defrag tools spend wasted hours defragging
700 - 800 MB media files. I want the tool to leave them alone
and defrag the rest of the system (regular files)
Dave

 

[Kristi]

Thanks for the info.
It's not lack of free space I'm concerned about, but
the fact that the defrag tools spend wasted hours defragging
700 - 800 MB media files. I want the tool to leave them alone
and defrag the rest of the system (regular files)
Dave

Divide your drive into 2 or 3 partitions - 1 for the boot opsys, 1 for
movies, 1 for etc. This can be done easily with PQPM. Also know that
with PerfectDisk you can exclude files from being defragged.
hth
Kristi

 

[davetest]

Divide your drive into 2 or 3 partitions - 1 for the boot opsys, 1 for
movies, 1 for etc. This can be done easily with PQPM. Also know that
with PerfectDisk you can exclude files from being defragged.
hth
Kristi

Appreciate that. I'll look into Raxco's product.
Dave

 

[Kristi]

Appreciate that. I'll look into Raxco's product.
Dave

you're welcome!
Best!
Kristi

 

[Darrell]

Don't defrag from normal Windows. Too many items occur on a continuing
basis and defrag has to start all over. Boot up into Safe Mode and defrag
from there. Now your defrag should continue smoothly. Reboot to normal
Windows when finished.

 

[Kristi]

Don't defrag from normal Windows. Too many items occur on a continuing
basis and defrag has to start all over. Boot up into Safe Mode and defrag
from there. Now your defrag should continue smoothly. Reboot to normal
Windows when finished.

With PerfectDisk I defrag from WinXP all the time. Only difference is when
I defrag the directories on the boot partition - it does an offline defrag
(at boot) for that.
hth
Kristi