byte_king Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369914 Share Posted January 5, 2011 So, I've been using Defraggler for a while now and lately it seems to be leaving fragments behind....Just today, my disk was 30% fragmented, I ran defraggler and it is now 20% defragged. This has been going on for a while now.Umm, i need to resize my partition soon and I'll like to get this issue sorted out.Thanks bros and sisters EDIT: So, I used MyDefrag and than analyzed using Defraggler and it seems to have picked off all those fragments Defraggler left behind. Woot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSnakeKobra Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369922 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I don't know much about defragmenting, but I did have some problems with Defraggler crashing explorer. After I defraged in safe mode and rebooted explorer was screwed up and did nothing, but crash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
byte_king Posted January 5, 2011 Author ID:369923 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Yeah, I am really unhappy with Defraggler so I'm looking into some other free disk tools. MyDefrag seems to do a pretty good job though it's not as user friendly as Defraggler Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldhound Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369924 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Have you tired Auslogics?http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSnakeKobra Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369925 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Exile recommended me to just use the built in one. Although I don't like how it doesn't show anything(7 does better). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 5, 2011 Root Admin ID:369929 Share Posted January 5, 2011 There is typically very little difference and unless you have an odd software/hardware issue the built-in defragmeter works just fine.All of these tools are using the Microsoft API routines for moving files around and some simply do it differently than others. On Windows 7 the built-in one also runs on it's own with a scheduled task so why not run it unless you're bored and want to watch one run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
byte_king Posted January 5, 2011 Author ID:369934 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Ahh, ok so I'll just use the built in tool with W7 than. Cool!Well, since I have you guys attention, I have another question: I need to resize a couple of partitions on my computer. I want to shrink my Windows 7 partition and extend a partition I use for Ubuntu Linux. Any ideas for a good tool to use besides the built in W7 one? GParted seems to be a good one and I may use that when I have to clean install a new version of Ubuntu (which probably won't be for a long while though)And what are some possible issues I may run into? I've done some reading on it already, but opinions are always welcome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 5, 2011 Root Admin ID:369944 Share Posted January 5, 2011 http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=4693Gparted is an excellent tool and I would recommend it for a freebie tool. I have it and use it from time to time.What can happen? You could lose ALL your data and have a difficult time recovering it if something went wrong on the partition table modifications. Always backup any of your important data. One never knows when disaster may strike such as even a hard drive failure out of the blue.See post here: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?s...st&p=369931 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
byte_king Posted January 5, 2011 Author ID:369948 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Cool, thanks Ron,Yep I have everything backed up that I want, and have my rescue CD and installation discs at hand when I do this. I'm still reading up on it first and making sure I have every forseeable hurtle planned out for....Still, this is nerve wrecking but I'm only paying for my lack of foresight a few months ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 5, 2011 Root Admin ID:369951 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Well actually breaking stuff and then fixing it is a good way to lean. You can only read so much in a book but until you experience it yourself and see it can you sometimes realize and figure it out.Having a backup plan though if you can't figure it out is wise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScanMan Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369960 Share Posted January 5, 2011 If your free space on the drive is below 15%, any defragger is going to be slow and incomplete in its task to defragment the volume. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSnakeKobra Posted January 5, 2011 ID:369965 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Ahh, ok so I'll just use the built in tool with W7 than. Cool!Well, since I have you guys attention, I have another question: I need to resize a couple of partitions on my computer. I want to shrink my Windows 7 partition and extend a partition I use for Ubuntu Linux. Any ideas for a good tool to use besides the built in W7 one? GParted seems to be a good one and I may use that when I have to clean install a new version of Ubuntu (which probably won't be for a long while though)And what are some possible issues I may run into? I've done some reading on it already, but opinions are always welcomeI've been pretty happy with the built in one. Never had any problems. Plus I think best to use something that's built in rather then 3rd parties if at all possible. I would just use the one in Ubuntu to divide everything since Windows doesn't support the ext4 file system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
byte_king Posted January 5, 2011 Author ID:369968 Share Posted January 5, 2011 If your free space on the drive is below 15%, any defragger is going to be slow and incomplete in its task to defragment the volume.Nope, most of the drive is free space (about 70 %) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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