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So i've skipped defragging my D: partition for about 3 years, with my 5.5 year old Maxtor hard drive, which for some reason hasnt died like every other maxtor in the world.
This is the same hard drive partition I download everything on, from tv series to porn (alot of porn at times) I got like 5 terrabyte of data going thru this 120gb partition just the last year, and thats JUST according to bittorrent/dc++ statistics.
Anyway.. My hard drive didn't like it, it started making crazy spinning noises and freezing (sorry to those people in the five 3:3 hunters games last night)
so I realised I better defrag, and I looked at the final result after about 8 hours or so and realised, damn, this is a pretty impressive defragmentation
never seen a defrag like that before, so i thought it was absolute blog material, anyway the hard drive works now, sweet, starcraft baby oh yeah
  
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United States1655 Posts
Holy crap, that's like all red.
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I try to defrag every once in a while, but I'm kinda a newb when it comes to that. For example, do I have to turn off ALL running programs? I'd prob defrag while sleeping but I use this alarm clock .exe to wake me up in the morning, would I have to not run that? +_+
Also, after or before defragging is there anything I should do? (Restart comp, run some other thing, etc.)
also i just ran an analysis and it says "You do not need to defragment this volume". But I'm pretty sure never in the history of my computer has it said I needed to when I did an analysis. I haven't defragged in maybe 3+ months now, should I just do it anyway?
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ya i think you should restart after defragging, so you feel the improvements
sometimes its probably healthy to do more than one defrag, i'm doing my second one right now.
And i think you just shouldnt use any programs that are installed on that hard drive, if its the same as your os i think you shouldnt have anything going.
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My computer just defrags automatically every week without me knowing, it's kinda nice.
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On May 02 2008 16:07 Frits wrote:
My computer just defrags automatically every week without me knowing, it's kinda nice.
what is this black magic
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On May 02 2008 16:07 Frits wrote:
My computer just defrags automatically every week without me knowing, it's kinda nice.
I have the same thing, but with my antivirus. Every once in a while I will notice an extra tab at the bottom and it is my antivirus working away doing a seemingly random scan. The weirdest part is that it was that 30 day subscription that comes with the computer, but it supposedly expired like a month or two ago. If it is still working, is there any reason to actually pay for it/download a free one?
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Mine defrags automatically too, but I have stuff running in the background so it never works -_-. If I actually slept at night, or for long periods, I'd defrag then, but my sleep patterns are random so I can't plan ahead. My PC is way slower now, opening a folder takes trillion of hard drive "clicks."
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On May 02 2008 16:20 Lemonwalrus wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2008 16:07 Frits wrote:
My computer just defrags automatically every week without me knowing, it's kinda nice. I have the same thing, but with my antivirus. Every once in a while I will notice an extra tab at the bottom and it is my antivirus working away doing a seemingly random scan. The weirdest part is that it was that 30 day subscription that comes with the computer, but it supposedly expired like a month or two ago. If it is still working, is there any reason to actually pay for it/download a free one?
The antivirus will keep working but it wont update. So if theres a new virus your screwed.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
I really really suggest you back up all ur worthwhile data.. defrag or not ur hardrive's life is about to expire ~
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
So how do you check if you need a defrag?
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you just do it regularly :3
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On May 02 2008 17:04 Physician wrote:
I really really suggest you back up all ur worthwhile data.. defrag or not ur hardrive's life is about to expire ~
listen to the doctor. 5.5 years of hard use = ur drive can die anytime. back up now pls.
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Here's how to set up your (Windows XP or similar) box for weekly (or otherwise periodic) defragmentations:
1. Go to the Control Panel.
2. Go to Scheduled Tasks. (In XP, switch to classic view and it's one of the icons.)
3. Right-click in the window, select New, select Scheduled Task. Name it whatever you want (e.g., defrag).
4. Right-click on the new scheduled task and click on Properties.
5. A window will pop up, and the current tab will be Task. You need to add information to the Run and the Start in lines. In the Run line, you want the address of the program to run (e.g., defrag.exe) followed by any options to the command (e.g., the drive you want to defragment). My Run line looks like:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe c:"
without quotes (this defragments the C: drive). The Start in line is the folder of defrag.exe. (Mine is "C:\WINDOWS\system32", no quotes.)
6. Select the tab labeled Schedule. This tab lets you set up a custom schedule for when defrag.exe (or whatever program you're running) will run. For example, I run it every Sunday at midnight.
7. Click OK.
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On May 02 2008 17:04 Physician wrote:
I really really suggest you back up all ur worthwhile data.. defrag or not ur hardrive's life is about to expire ~
I know, i have suspected this and done it already.
this seems to have saved it for now at least...
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
looool shti
my hd is surprisingly undefragmented O_O only 15% (is 15% a lot or no?) after a long long time of not not defragging.
however i am so out of space right now 1% out of 60GB LOL cant defrag. gotta move a load of shit onto my external HD first -___-;;;
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United States24715 Posts
On May 02 2008 15:53 PanoRaMa wrote:
I'd prob defrag while sleeping but I use this alarm clock .exe to wake me up in the morning, would I have to not run that? +_+ I really don't recommend relying on a computer program to wake you up. I can't keep my computer stable enough to keep my darn mIRC open all the time because it's either rebooting with some update, or some other nonsense. Either way maybe you can do it on a weekend on an evening you make a point of going to bed early? Wouldn't work for me, but maybe for you...
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Belgium6772 Posts
A long time ago when I was still working with my win98, I didnt know what a defrag was yet lol
So when I finally did it, it took a whole 5 x 24 hours to complete defrag.
That being said, I think I'm gonna defrag now :|
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you should perform a scan disk before you defrag. Also, at the end, defrag will tell you that there were some files it could not defrag: I think this means it couldn't find a space large enough for the whole file, so what I found helped was copying a big file and deleting the original. the copy will use the largest amount of space and then fragment into the other smaller spaces, but deleting the original will hopefully leave gaps behind so that a new defrag will be able to do a better job.
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