Is this bad?

[The Virus]

I just Defragged my HD 5 times in a row and still getting a huge amount of red fragmanted space. Is this normal?

[jamaljaco]

thats wierd.

[The Virus]

Originally posted by jamaljaco
thats wierd.

I know man, this happend after i changed my cluster size to 16k with partition magic 8.0 grrrrrrrrr i might after re formated my whole raid again.............god help me lol

[DeathMonk]

That's the space allocated for your gargantuan porn collection.

:p:

[macsean13]

my solution is to use a different defragger like diskkeeper or like nortons disk doctor....But the best would be to start from scratch! Back your info up and start over with a fresh install of OS. This should be done frequnetly like every 6 months

[faruquehabib]

wow, i never saw that before...very interesting. looks like time for yet another clean OS install

[Soulburner]

I never have that problem and I defrag all the time.

Try using Diskeeper 8. I defrag every day or every other day and its a 30 second job for all 4 drives.

[Peen]

Originally posted by Soulburner
I never have that problem and I defrag all the time.

Try using Diskeeper 8. I defrag every day or every other day and its a 30 second job for all 4 drives.
I agree with soulburner. Try diskeeper it does a much finer job then windows standard de fragger

[sjohnson]

The best defragger I know of is ghost.

Ghost?

Yup, when you ghost a partition then restore it, ALL the files are completely unfragmented, including the MFT and swap file.

[jamaljaco]

Originally posted by sjohnson
The best defragger I know of is ghost.

Ghost?

Yup, when you ghost a partition then restore it, ALL the files are completely unfragmented, including the MFT and swap file. I have ghost but never tried it . Good to know.

[sjohnson]

I usually only use ghost that way on initial setup of a system. Once the OS is loaded, the patches applied, the drivers all set, the swapfile and desktop setup and tweaks done I ghost then restore.

After that, normal disk defragmenters have no real trouble in putting things into pretty good shape.

[Soulburner]

I really need to start doing that.

Would save me a lot of time when setting up OS's, I do it often enough to warrant it.