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Posted November 11, 2012
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DieRuhe: I decided to try Auslogics Disk Defrag. Yesterday I analyzed my C drive and had about 550 fragged files. So I defragged.

For the heck of it, I analyzed it again today and it said there's 235 fragmented files.

Is it normal for a drive to accumulate frag so quickly? Is there some other way I can check to make sure nothing's wrong?
So, you think, you have fragmentation issues?
See attached http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/time_to_defrag/post1

Mydefrag did help after some free space cleanup.
Posted November 11, 2012
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wormholewizards: What about the state of MyDefrag and UltraDefrag today? I remember both of these were popular choices few years ago. But since Windows 7 came with much improved defragmenting tool, these 2 doesn't seems as popular as they were 4 years ago.
MyDefrag is truly excellent still. Can't recommend it enough.
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DieRuhe: snip
Your OS writes and rewrites to your OS hard drive like crazy. It's part of normal operation and it does accumulate much quicker than storage drives, etc. However, something is not right with the results from Auslogics. Try MyDefrag. I'm assuming this hard drive is not an SSD. If it is, DO NOT degfrag it.
Posted November 11, 2012
As long as you don't mind shelling out a bit of cash, this may be of some use.

http://download.cnet.com/Diskeeper-12-Professional/3000-2094_4-10023645.html?tag=sideBar;downloadLinks
Posted November 11, 2012
But seems like the MyDefrag development is no longer active. The latest build dated back in 2010.
Posted November 11, 2012
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wormholewizards: But seems like the MyDefrag development is no longer active. The latest build dated back in 2010.
Maybe they perfected it already back then? Ok maybe not...

Ps. I think Windows 8 introduced some new file system on top of existing NTFS (ReFS?), but was it relevant only for certain (server) Win8 editions? Just wondering whether defrag utility developers are now in a hurry to add support for ReFS?
Posted November 11, 2012
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DieRuhe: For the heck of it, I analyzed it again today and it said there's 235 fragmented files.

Is it normal for a drive to accumulate frag so quickly? Is there some other way I can check to make sure nothing's wrong?

I don't like the current (well, Vista) Windows degragger because it doesn't give you any information on number of files or percentage or anything, so if I run it I have no idea what it's actually doing - which is why I decided to try Auslogics. I also tried Avast!, but good lord that was slow.
Some files will always remain fragmented due to various technical reasons. This is normal and expected, not something you need a third-party tool to "fix", and also why Microsoft moved to displaying a vague percentage; the fragmentation state of specific files is no longer important due to various OS improvements.

In Windows 7 and 8 the defragmenter was upgraded to give a percentage and the ability to start/stop the processing of individual drives on demand.

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timppu: I think Windows 8 introduced some new file system on top of existing NTFS (ReFS?), but was it relevant only for certain (server) Win8 editions? Just wondering whether defrag utility developers are now in a hurry to add support for ReFS?
ReFS is only in the Server versions (for now) where third-party tools are unlikely to be used, so this is probably a low priority for them.
Posted November 11, 2012
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ne_zavarj: I'm still using UltimateDefrag . ( now version 4 )
I've heard some good reports on this program. What are your thoughts about it?
Posted November 11, 2012
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shane-o: I've heard some good reports on this program. What are your thoughts about it?
It works fine . They are offering a 30 days free trial for the software : http://www.disktrix.com/free-trial.php
Posted November 11, 2012
Try UltraDefrag. It's an open source, free and pretty powerful if you're advance user by accessing cmd. The development still active and they just released a new version which include support for Windows 8.

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html?comparison

Since it's an open source, you can expect regular small update or fixes.
Post edited November 11, 2012 by wormholewizards
Posted November 11, 2012
Ever since Windows 7 I never bothered with manual defragmentation. Current fragmentation of my two partitions: 1%.
Posted November 11, 2012
I think mine was about 22% and I managed to get it to around 12. About half the space is free.

I also appeared to have some sort of virus - thanks Norton for not catching it! - and it actually had something to do with Gamefly files, or at least that's how it found its way in. I had to download a program from CNet to take care of it.
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