Diskeeper 9 causing trouble to hard drives?

[CFran]

I've been setting Diskeeper to screen saver mode on both my hard disk
for about two weeks, and a few days ago i found out (after looking for
an explanation for my system's unstableness) by running a chkdsk that
on each disk i had problems, mostly index entry related problems. Now
I've performed chkdsk /r's on my disks and even if it shown then that
there was no more problems, running a chkdsk a few days later shows
many index entry problems mostly in index $I30, as I have stopped that
diskeeper screensaver thing.

Is diskeeper really causing that trouble to my disk, if so how come,
and then, how can I stop my disk from getting those index errors as
i've stopped using diskeeper?

 

[NunYa Bidness]

I've been setting Diskeeper to screen saver mode on both my hard disk
for about two weeks, and a few days ago i found out (after looking for
an explanation for my system's unstableness) by running a chkdsk that
on each disk i had problems, mostly index entry related problems. Now
I've performed chkdsk /r's on my disks and even if it shown then that
there was no more problems, running a chkdsk a few days later shows
many index entry problems mostly in index $I30, as I have stopped that
diskeeper screensaver thing.

Is diskeeper really causing that trouble to my disk, if so how come,
and then, how can I stop my disk from getting those index errors as
i've stopped using diskeeper?

First off, you should use scandisk, not chkdsk, just like it
suggests.

Secondly, you do not need to defrag your drives more than once a
month... at best, so no always on background tool is needed. A
monthly manual defrag is fine.

 

[Guest]

Scandisk was Win 98 utility.
Win XP uses chkdsk!!

 

[Leythos]

I've been setting Diskeeper to screen saver mode on both my hard disk
for about two weeks, and a few days ago i found out (after looking for
an explanation for my system's unstableness) by running a chkdsk that
on each disk i had problems, mostly index entry related problems. Now
I've performed chkdsk /r's on my disks and even if it shown then that
there was no more problems, running a chkdsk a few days later shows
many index entry problems mostly in index $I30, as I have stopped that
diskeeper screensaver thing.

Is diskeeper really causing that trouble to my disk, if so how come,
and then, how can I stop my disk from getting those index errors as
i've stopped using diskeeper?

If your machines and drives are stable, Diskeeper 9 will not cause any
problems with the computer/drives. I have DK9 running on quite a few
systems, systems that run 24/7/365, and certainly under more load that
your desktop. They run in the background all the time.

If you are seeing problems with your disk, ones that indicate errors
that need fixing, then you have some other problem - could be a disk
going bad, could be a flakey drive controller, bad cable....

 

[CFran]

If your machines and drives are stable, Diskeeper 9 will not cause any
problems with the computer/drives. I have DK9 running on quite a few
systems, systems that run 24/7/365, and certainly under more load that
your desktop. They run in the background all the time.

If you are seeing problems with your disk, ones that indicate errors
that need fixing, then you have some other problem - could be a disk
going bad, could be a flakey drive controller, bad cable....

Yeah but, you probably have disks with more than 20% of free space, as
my disks hardly every have more than 10% free, and my MFT is shown to
be at 99% (i dont remember whether it meant fragmentation or space
occupied, but i think that's very bad anyways). btw now I cant even
install Windows XP on it anymore (but that's a new topic on this forum)

 

[Jonny]

Yeah but, you probably have disks with more than 20% of free space, as
my disks hardly every have more than 10% free, and my MFT is shown to
be at 99% (i dont remember whether it meant fragmentation or space
occupied, but i think that's very bad anyways). btw now I cant even
install Windows XP on it anymore (but that's a new topic on this forum)

There is a minimum amount of partition freespace required for
defragmentation of the filesystem. The suggested freespace is minimal at
best conditions. Get a larger capacity hard drive, and a new replacement
ide cable 80 wire version with it. Don't use drive compression if used at
present or intended in the future.
Reduce the programs running in the background during any defragmentation or
disk utility program.