"Best way to defragment a Windows drive is to wipe it and install Linux. ;)"
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree on that one. It also solves that nagging "buy the latest version" bug that most Microsoft products seem to have... Not sure why NTFS likes to fragment, but on my dad's xp laptop it got so bad the drive started doing the ten minute boot-up boogie from all the seeking. That's one of the nice things about ext2/3 filesystems, they never needs a defrag. :D What nix distro(s) do you run? Walt On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: >> Does anybody know of any free scandisk and defrag programs that would be >> better than what comes with windows? >> > > Best way to defragment a Windows drive is to wipe it and install Linux. ;) > > Seriously, why is this still an issue? The algorithms to minimize > fragmentation as a normal part of everyday disk access, and the proper > way to structure a filesystem towards the same goal, have been known > since the '70s, and are taught in Operating Systems 101 in the third > year of a computer science B.S. > > They don't even have the excuse of needing to maintain backwards > compatibility with DOS anymore via FAT32, now that they provide an > excellent virtualization solution for free (MS Virtual PC) for running > multiple x86 operating systems simultaneously on the same hardware... > > Alex "Recovering software engineer" Chamberlain > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
