I ran defrag on my computer, and a ton of the 'red' didn't go away. Is this a sign my HDD may go bad in the future, or what? Usually when I run it, it cleans it up fairly well, but i've never seen it this bad before.

Thanks

12/9/2005 2:07:15 PM

get the demo of PerfectDisk, it does a better job of defragmentation http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

12/9/2005 2:10:04 PM

so that picture was generated after you ran a defrag? maybe try another defrag utility like diskeeper...

12/9/2005 2:12:05 PM

^ yea the 'graph' on the bottom was after the defrag. It ran overnight and I checked it this morning when I woke up.

I'll try a different utility, thanks.

12/9/2005 2:24:08 PM

maybe you can just run whatever program you end up using multiple times too...i dunno, just guessing wildly here

12/9/2005 2:27:22 PM

^

the XP utility only will defrag up to some predefined % of diskspace per utilization. just run it till its all blue. do it every so often and generally you can avoid doing it more than once

12/9/2005 2:33:47 PM

I always run defrag accouple times... I think the piss poor defrag is due to Microsofts alogrithm

12/9/2005 3:42:28 PM

I got the O&O defrag util and it works fine I guess

12/9/2005 4:04:34 PM

only 2 gig left out of 112, damn boy

12/10/2005 10:53:16 AM

^ a bunch of DVD 'backups' I haven't burned yet

I ran PerfectDisk on both my drives (it took about 9 hours to run), and then checked it on the Windows defragger. It's blue all the the way, and it pushed everything towards the front of the drive. Looks like it did a pretty good job I might have to buy this program

I used to run the windows defrag once a month (which i thought was doing a good job), but when I buy perfectdisk I'm going to schedule it once a week or something like that. I don't think it's my imagination that my computer is running slightly faster now

12/10/2005 11:50:01 AM