PerfectDisk 8 Vista ready

[Hurricane Andrew]

Ditto. I took advantage as well. They seemed to have ironed out a bug I
had encountered that wouldn't let me run a boot defrag on either of my Vista
systems. Works like a charm now, though.

I'm a longtime Diskeeper user, and I still use it on my XP systems, but
PerfectDisk has been wonderful so far on Vista.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

DK 10 for Vista beta worked on a whole list of beta and RC builds right up
to 5744. But it was still beta. Are you seeing external drives in the
drive list in PD8? I am not. What's up with that? I put virtual machines
on an external drive and do not allow automatic or scheduled defragging of
that drive. It is not prudent to have the defragger working on your virtual
machine while you are running it. The fragmentation results from the way
virtual machine managers request additional filespace from the host as a
virtual machine's dynamically expanding vhd's are written to.

 

[Jon Davis]

PerfectDisk optimizes the files by moving system files closer to the center
of the hd spindle, apps in the middle, and documents out to the outer edge.
Does Vista now do this as well? I thought I'd heard that it does but
couldn't find a confirmation.

On a laptop, I upgraded from XP and PerfectDisk was installed. Obviously, PD
broke down, but after replacing all those OS files I wanted to do this
optimization, regardless of defragmentation, so that each little system file
isn't spanned out all over the hard drive as the system boots, so that was a
bigger deal for me.

Jon

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The release version of PD 8 for Vista is not seeing my external hard drives.
Hmmm....

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Have you notified them of this problem?

(e-mail address removed)

 

[MICHAEL]

Colin,

Check under, Configuration>Advanced Configuration>Removable Storage


-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

I replied to your other post- just in case,
this might be your answer.

Check under, Configuration>Advanced Configuration>Removable Storage


-Michael

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Thank you, Michael. It turns out that the Advanced Configuration box opened
at half the width it could have and I didn't see the tab until I stretched
it out. I figured I was missing a setting someplace. I really am a DK
kinda guy.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Simple solutions to problems are always nice, aren't they?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Yep! That's what I like most about the ng's. There is no such thing as a
stupid question.