need good defrag

[ubertom]

im having trouble defraging my NTFS volume, the windows defrager just gives up and i was wondering if anyone knows any good third party defrag utils for win 2000 that support NTFS

[confus-ed]

im having trouble defraging my NTFS volume, the windows defrager just gives up ..

What's it do ? produce some error ?

[ubertom]

nope it just stops, no error. just runs for about 20 mins, then it stops running and the drives still as fragmented as it was when i started

[shamus]

Have you run it in safe mode?

[Zonie]

Try this: http://www.techspot.com/download682.html Ubertom and see if it will defrag. If not, there is a possibility you may need to run scandisk on your hard drive. You may have some clusters bad.

[Matridom]

ntfs? defrag?

Diskeeper, simply the best out there.

They wrote the original defrag program that comes with windows under contract with MS, then released a better version for their own product.

Can do multiple hard drives at the same time
better at total defragmentation
boot time defragmentation
aprox 3 times faster
schedualing and a "Set it and forget" it option
fragguard

http://www.executivesoftware.com/coverpage.asp

[geoscomp]

I would be more curious as to why the built in one doesnt work? Have you run a chkdsk on this disk?

[confus-ed]

I would be more curious as to why the built in one doesnt work? ..

Most definately ! & chkdsk would indeed seem to be the place to start, but since he says defrag starts, I doubt that, as defrag runs a test first to make sure it can read everything, but would usually kick an error telling you to run chkdsk if it finds anything amiss .. I suppose maybe he could be forcing it to run without enough space free (you need 15% free for an NTFS volume to work) & that also generally produces not much 'defragged-ness' if you do ... Mmmmm..

[arch0nmyc0n]

As an alternative I've used Vopt in the past... fast and compact without a service running in the background...but it's shareware 30 days...

[Duke of Rezin]

Yea, Vopt is great and really fast.

[bind]

I would be more curious as to why the built in one doesnt work? Have you run a chkdsk on this disk?

If this is the first time he's doing defrag, it will take a long time. He may have to let it run overnight. Any of the major third party defrag programs will work just fine.

Check out this article

http://www.theeldergeek.com/defragme..._page_file.htm