> 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
> news:uvmFDKTuIHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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.

From what I've read, so does MS. That's why apps like NOrton can report
say 33% fragmented and tell you to defrag, but MS's defrag will tell you
it's not needed. Supposedly it looks at the how often accessed flags.
I've never heard of anything that determines how "important" a file
is to anything; not sure I'd trust that sort of a judgement to software.

My 2 ¢


>>
>>
>> ~~~~
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> 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