Norton Speed Disk leaves disk more fragmented?

[Rajesh Kirpalani]

I have Win XP Home with 80GB HD and Norton SystemWorks 2002 (which
includes Norton Speed Disk).

I normally use Windows's built in DeFragmenter. According to
Microsoft's tool, I could see 25% was red (ie fragmented).

On this occasion, I decided to use Speed Disk. It was impressed that
it was doing clever things like placing frequently accessed files in
the beginning and then placing frequently modified files.

After Norton finished; I ran Microsoft's DeFrag and did "Analyze" and
found that 75% of the disk was all "red" (ie fragmented). Some files
had 300 fragmentations with Norton!! More then I had started!. So why
was there more fragmentation after running Speed Disk?

Has anyone seen this before? Should I use Speed Disk again or stick
Microsoft tool in future? Any advice why this is happening?

Cheers,
Rajesh

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Different defragging tools use different optimizing schemes. They will
always see the results of another defrag utility as badly fragmented as it
will not match what it defines as optimal. Choose one defrag utility and
stick with it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone