»Windows housekeeping - Super Defrag«

I'm sure most people know about disk fragmanetation (if not look it up White laugh

) and how you can "Defrag" your drive to improve performance. hard disk fragmentation ♣

Well sometimes it's just not enough. If your drive has a lot of large files, not much space or a combination of the two, you might find you just can't get it tidy.

This is a problem I had recently and so capped the screens as I sorted it out in case it was useful to anyone else.

The Drive in question serves two purposes, it is where my downloads go until completed and it's where I put files encoded for DVD until I'm ready to make up the disc. It's my most used drive so get fragmented quickly - I defrag this one almost daily Shocked

All screens are from Diskeeper 9 (Executive Software) but the principle applies to all defrag tools.

Figure 1 - After the Defrag

This is the layout of files on this disk immediately after I attempted to defrag it, I want to put some more files on there, but since the space is spread about and the last files I put on there got fragged (Red), things can only get worse.

Figure 2 - Move some Files

I move a shed load of the smallest files I can find on the disk. Since I use eDonkey - which downloads files in segments of no more than 9 Meg, I went for these first. I moved the equivalent of about 10% of the total drive size.

If you have a second hard disk (a different physical disk, rather than just a different drive letter on the same disk) you should do all your moves to this as it is significantly faster and thrashes your drive less.

As you can see from the cap, this left a lot of small files with a lot of small gaps, the idea is we shove these all together to leave some big gaps.

Figure 3 - Defrag the drive

Another run through with diskeeper and all the files are shoved neatly together, there are a few gaps left, but look at that huge one at the end Very Happy

Figure 4 - Put the files back

When I Move the files back, being small they snuggle in to the gaps left by the last defrag - this is the reason for using small files in the first place.

Figure 5 - Final Defrag

Not really required, but it just tidies up any of the small files that got split.

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