That is one of the nice things about some of the third-party defraggers like
Diskeeper and PerfectDisk. They give you choices between defragmentation
strategies based on things like frequency of access or high performance,
etc.

"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Bill
>
> You can have two different scenarios. A preponderance of greatly
> fragmented files that you never access and greatly fragmented files that
> you frequently access. In generall you are more likely to see the second
> scenario. The numbers game is not a good guide on the need to defragment
> as it fails to distinguish between important files and those which do not
> matter.
>
>
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> Gerry
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> Bill Sharpe wrote:
>> Fiddler wrote:
>>> That as bad as being told not to turn the pc off because it will
>>> break it "rick s" <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4C4390A7-08CB-4E70-9695-FF9880DA1801@microsoft.com...
>>>> Someone told me that the more you run disk defrg the better chance
>>>> of destroying your hard drive. Is this true?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Defrag only when necessary.
>> Now define "necessary." <g>
>>
>> One solution is to use the command line:
>> defrag <drive> -a -v (-a for analyze only, -v for verbose)
>> which will quickly tell you how defragmented your drive is and the MS
>> suggestion as to whether defragging is recommended or not.
>>
>> Bill
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