[RESOLVED] Defrag Faster

[BECO]

Looking for away to defrag win98 faster
When using win98 it takes hours.
Looking to do this in dos i think it would be a lot faster.What software if so.

Thanks everyone

[ilovetheusers]

It is normal for defrag to take quite some time. It is reorganizing your file structure so that the most used files go to the inside (the fastest) part of the hard drive. If you turn this feature off in the properties of defrag it will just push all the data to the front of the disk and will not organize the data.
My solution was to run the utility at nighttime when I wasn't using the program.
There probably are some dos defrag programs out there but I don't know of one personally. I think that norton utilities and mcafee nuts and bolts have defrap programs that come with them.

[DR]

Defrag is a Windows based program. It will only run in a Windows enviroment. There is a tool on the 98 install disk under tools/ mtsutil called defrag. You right click on it and it puts the defrag command in the RunServicesOnce key of the registry. It is supposed to run before the TSR's load and be faster. You right click and install it then reboot to run it. There is also a program called PowerDefrag that reboots and seems to run defrag without loading Windows completely.

[Stalemate]

Originally posted by DR:
[QB]...There is a tool on the 98 install disk under tools/ mtsutil called defrag. You right click on it and it puts the defrag command in the RunServicesOnce key of the registry. It is supposed to run before the TSR's load and be faster. You right click and install it then reboot to run it...QB]

Another advantage of keeping your Win9x source files on a disk drive!

[Toppro]

defrag in safe mode

[macg]

Originally posted by DR:
<STRONG>...a program called PowerDefrag that reboots and seems to run defrag without loading Windows completely.</STRONG>

It kicks serious butt too!!

[sdrawkcab]

If you do it in MSDOS mode you'll lose all your long file names. You can still do it if you really want to... just use an old defragger like PCTools or the Defrag from DOS 6.2, and use the LOCK command thats included with Windows.

[Darren Wilson]

I always found Nortons SpeedDisk to be a lot faster and more efficient than the Windows Defrag.