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Windows Vista: Disk Defragmentation Anomaly?
Disk Defragmentation Anomaly?
by Tony Burke - 8/17/09 11:04 AMVista Home Premium-SP2 on Dell Studio Laptop. Hard Disk 250GB (with recovery partition) -
Disk Defrag Analysis from Command Prompt shows 0 percent file fragmentation ans says 'you do not need to defragment this volume'
Disk analysis with third party program such as Defraggler shows disk defragmentation as 59 percent. Does this make sense?
I'm afraid I'm not very experienced with Computers so I don't understand this discrepancy.
A friend a long time ago explained it to me.
by R. Proffitt
- 8/17/09 1:13 PM
In reply to: Disk Defragmentation Anomaly? by Tony Burke
He told me about how Microsoft doesn't make a perfect OS but one that is good enough to barely get by. There are oodles of little things like this all over. Microsoft tends to rank then from gotta fix to let it slide. Remember they are out to make money so issues like this end up unfixed.
Bob
vista's built-in defrag treats large files differently
by ramarc - 8/18/09 5:52 PM In reply to: Disk Defragmentation Anomaly? by Tony Burkeif a file is bigger than 64MB, vista's defragger doesn't worry about it and doesn't include it in its list of fragmented items. also, defraggler considers even a tiny file with 2 fragments just as fragmented as a huge file with 100 fragments.
i suggest you let vista's defrag do its automatic behind-the-scenes work, and periodically use defraggler to defrag the most heavily fragmented important files. btw, music files, video files, etc aren't "important" from a fragmentation standpoint -- only OS files and executables are important.
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