W2K Defrag Exclusions

[Roger Fink]

In order to defragment my hard drive I need to exclude the file gobackio.bin
(the file Goback writes to, which takes up 10% of the drive space). I can do
this for my Fix-It Utilities defrag program, but I haven't been able to
figure out how to do it with the OS System Tools defrag program, which I
think is a better choice here. How do I do this?

 

[Bob I]

It's a "simple" defrag tool. It doesn't have that level of options.

 

[Roger Fink]

Ah, no wonder I couldn't find it.
I can still use it to "analyze" though, which has the advantage of offering
up an opinion as to whether defrag is necessary or not.

 

[Bob I]

If it doesn't lie. ;-) Unless you are doing a bunch of loading and
unloading files to and from the hard-drive, most people worry too much
about defragging.

 

[Roger Fink]

Yup, just an opinion from Micro$oft, but in this case I give it more
credence, since they can't make/lose any money on the deal.

 

[Bob I]

No I was referring to the "analyzer" getting confused. I have seen it
not recommend a defrag when it was choking on broken files and then
repeatedly recommend defragging when only a couple files were broken.

 

[Roger Fink]

OK, sounds like maybe I'll just send the analyzer packing and arbitrarily do
it twice a year.