'David B. Mathews' wrote:
>I hate the way the Vista Defrag works. I can no longer see what it is
>doing nor can I tell it which drives to defrag. Since I have 2 drives,
>each having 1 terabytes of space this can be a very slow process. There is
>no reason for it to try to defrag the 2nd drive as I am using it for
>backups and storing pictures/music on. What else is out there that you
>guys/gals would recommend? I downloaded a copy of Perfect Disk trial that
>I'm trying out. The other one I was looking at is Disk keeper. Perfect
>Disk has the window to show me what it doing, haven't investigated Disk
>keeper yet. Suggestions?
>
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Try the command line version of defrag that is part of Windows Vista. Open
the Command Prompt window as an administrator (right click and choose 'Run
as administrator' from the fly-out menu). Enter defrag /? to get the
list of parameters. If you use defrag C: - a -v defrag will
analyze the drive selected and display a fragmentation report. You can then
choose to defrag or not. The report is not pretty, but the price is right.

The results of defrag /? are shown below


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C:\Windows\system32>defrag /?
Description: Locates and consolidates fragmented files on local volumes to
improve system performance.

Syntax: defrag <volume> -a [-v]
defrag <volume> [{-r | -w}] [-f] [-v]
defrag -c [{-r | -w}] [-f] [-v]

Parameters:

Value Description

<volume> Specifies the drive letter or mount point path of the volume
to
be defragmented or analyzed.

-c Defragments all volumes on this computer.

-a Performs fragmentation analysis only.

-r Performs partial defragmentation (default). Attempts to
consolidate only fragments smaller than 64 megabytes (MB).

-w Performs full defragmentation. Attempts to consolidate all
file
fragments, regardless of their size.

-f Forces defragmentation of the volume when free space is low.

-v Specifies verbose mode. The defragmentation and analysis
output
is more detailed.

-? Displays this help information.

Examples:

defrag d:
defrag d:\vol\mountpoint -w -f
defrag d: -a -v
defrag -c -v

C:\Windows\system32>

Phil Weldon

"David B. Mathews" <dmathews9586@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1FC585F7-DFDB-4989-BA4A-6B135A022F68@microsoft.com...
>I hate the way the Vista Defrag works. I can no longer see what it is
>doing nor can I tell it which drives to defrag. Since I have 2 drives,
>each having 1 terabytes of space this can be a very slow process. There is
>no reason for it to try to defrag the 2nd drive as I am using it for
>backups and storing pictures/music on. What else is out there that you
>guys/gals would recommend? I downloaded a copy of Perfect Disk trial that
>I'm trying out. The other one I was looking at is Disk keeper. Perfect
>Disk has the window to show me what it doing, haven't investigated Disk
>keeper yet. Suggestions?
>