disk defragmenter

[Steven Wabik]

whats the deal with the disk defragmenter?
i can tell how much of the disk it has defragmented and stuff.
what the heck did microsoft do to it?
the way they made it now, you can't even tell which drive its working on
unless you open up the drive properties and tell it to work on that
particular disk.
i'm running a dualboot of xp and vista.
know which drive is working on and stuff would be nice.

 

[wgd]

whats the deal with the disk defragmenter?
i can tell how much of the disk it has defragmented and stuff.
what the heck did microsoft do to it?
the way they made it now, you can't even tell which drive its working on
unless you open up the drive properties and tell it to work on that
particular disk.
i'm running a dualboot of xp and vista.
know which drive is working on and stuff would be nice.

I agree. MS has made the defragmenter in Vista a "black box". Use the
free Diskeeper beta for Vista instead. Works better and provides a large
amount of useful information including a graphical display as it
defragments.

www.diskeeper.com

 

[Roy Coorne]

I agree. MS has made the defragmenter in Vista a "black box". Use the
free Diskeeper beta for Vista instead. Works better and provides a large
amount of useful information including a graphical display as it
defragments.

www.diskeeper.com

www.diskeeper.com leads to a free trial version, not to a beta for
Vista - ?

rOy

 

[peter]

http://www.diskeeper.com/profile/submit-select.aspx?a=l&PId=104

pick the business version...unless your using 32bit Vista
peter

 

[Steven Wabik]

then what version would be good for the 32bit version (x86)

 

[Kerry Brown]

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

 

[Roy Coorne]

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

THX!!

Roy

 

[Guest]

Thx for the link Kerry Brown

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

 

[Steven Wabik]

thanks

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

 

[KevinO]

Does anyone know if Microsoft was in with Executive Software ( Diskkeeper)
on this version like they were on the XP version?

I agree that they need to show the diagram etc to show us the status and
fragmentation.

 

[Steven Wabik]

i have no idea if they are or not. sorry

Does anyone know if Microsoft was in with Executive Software ( Diskkeeper)
on this version like they were on the XP version?

I agree that they need to show the diagram etc to show us the status and
fragmentation.

 

[Guest]

I hope someone at MS will read this. The disk defragmenter in Vista is
useless. You can't tell whether it is actually doing anything (no active
graphs) and it reports back that highly fragemented disks do not need to be
defragged. After two weeks of using the beta, this is the most serious
problem I have found. Fortunately, I am using a dual boot with XP and have
both System Mechanic and Norton System Works on the XP system.

 

[Steven Wabik]

i have a dual boot of xp and vista too.
the xp defragmenter is ok but the vista one needs lots of work.
you can report it as an issue if you want.
there is even a page where you can send them your comments and seggestions.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/sentiments/default.mspx

for a disk defragmenter in vista use the one that you can download from this
site.
its called disk keeper. it works good.
http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

 

[Telstar]

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

It doesnt work on RC1 (as they clearly say its only for older builds).

I tried installing it anyway, but installation stops because I "dont
have rights" to install the diskeeper service...

Any workaround for this or we have to wait for a newer build from
Diskeeper Corp?

I really really hate vista defrag.

T*

 

[Max]

No known workaround for Diskeeper (until they release a newer version for
RC1+).

O&O Defrag (Pro Version 8) works in RC1.

 

[Telstar]

No known workaround for Diskeeper (until they release a newer version for
RC1+).

O&O Defrag (Pro Version 8) works in RC1.

Which build?
I tried the last one and got the dreaded message "this software does
not support this version of windows"...

bah.

 

[Max]

Version 8, not the 8.5 available on the O&O website.
Interesting that the older version works, and the newer one does not.

 

[Mark W Scheidell]

I tried both 8 and 8.5 with no luck on Vista 32. My error message was *the
application does not support this processor*. Interestingly, I'm using O&O
on the XPx64 side with great results.

 

[Jeff]

Hi,
Even though there's no cute gui;
Admin command prompt defrag works just fine now- it's free;and does just as
good;or better than O&O.
Trust me on this;tried out O&O; and Diskkeeper;both defrag with less
success then yur basic command prompt.
Yea; there's not cute pics;or colors;but checking using a command prompt
defrag analyze showed very acceptable results;as did analysis after
defrag;looking at the drive with O&O;after the command line defrag.

Jeff

 

[Jeff]

Ok,
Just an FYI,
Command prompt defrag works fine now-its free and does just as good or
better than O&O.
Yea; no cute GUI; but works great now.
Jeff
P.S. this thread is posted in multiple rooms, responded to this in the other
room.