Norton or XP Defrag

[Guest]

I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk space that
needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being right?
If XP's defrag is correct I will just use that.
Anyone seen this discrepancy?
Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

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| I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
| When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk space that
| needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being right?
| If XP's defrag is correct I will just use that.
| Anyone seen this discrepancy?
| Thanks

 

[Dave Denmark]

I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk
space that needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being
right?
If XP's defrag is correct I will just use that.
Anyone seen this discrepancy?
Thanks

I have seen that XP's defrag program (based on Diskeeper) must run a few
times in order for it to completely defrag a hard drive. I'd recommend O&O
Defrag if you want a good defrag program.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html


Never used PerfectDisk like Carey's recommending. Might be worth a shot as
well.

 

[Rodger_B]

It is best to choose one Defragmenter program and stick with it.
Different programs defragment the disk differently, so that a disk defragged
by one program may still look fragmented to another program.

I use Vopt XP v 7.22
http://www.goldenbow.com/

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk space that
needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being right?

Avoid Norton defrag. It has not really been updated for XP. Choose
something (inbuilt or I use Perfect Disk) and use *only* that - do not
mix

 

[Tom]

I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk space that
needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being right?
If XP's defrag is correct I will just use that.
Anyone seen this discrepancy?
Thanks

Dump anything/everything you have in Nortons (and take it as a learned loss), and use PerfectDisk; it is the best I have ever used.

 

[BBUNNY]

Pete Carr wrote:
| I have Norton System Works and use it to defrag my hard drives.
| When I run XP's buily in Degrag is says I have big chunks of disk
| space that needs to be defragged. WHich program is closer to being
| right?
| If XP's defrag is correct I will just use that.
| Anyone seen this discrepancy?
| Thanks

As far as realtime performance, defrag, partitioning, pagefile and a few
others are all _HORSE HOCKEY_....