--- On Sat, 9/11/10, Steve Hacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep Greg! Thanks :) That's exactly
> what I did; DOS command line to block the running of ChkDsk.
> Only trouble with that though is that once the system
> decides to run ChkDsk, it "by gosh wants to run it!"...which
> means that you're kinda screwed for doing things like
> Defrag...or at least I haven't been able to Defrag. It's
> pretty critical to run Defrag, but the system keeps saying
> that it CAN'T run Defrag until ChkDsk does it's "scheduled"
> run first. So, basically what idiot-Windows is telling me
> is, "We cannot run Defrag for you until you allow us to
> corrupt and delete some of your most critical data with
> ChkDsk. Once we screw you out of your data, then we will let
> you run Defrag, so you can organize all of your remaining
> worthless data in a contiguous fashion"....LOL! :p
Shouldn't be a problem running XP's chkdsk on XP's volume during boot to that
volume. Likewise for Win 7's volume. That's assuming there's a way to restrict
it to just the one specific volume.
Been a long while since I've heard of a new version of a disk or file system
utility included with a Microsoft OS causing such havoc to data from a previous
OS version.
Google for unset dirty bit and see what you come up with.
Try Contig from Sysinternals (now from Microsoft but still free) and the free
GUI for it, Power Defragmenter.
The fastest, most feature-ful defrag for 2000 and later is O&O Defrag. Most of
the others are simply using the built in Diskkeeper Lite wich is made of
suckage. I tried the full Diskkeeper on XP and didn't see a lick of difference
between it and the Lite version.
O&O will defrag many files the others won't. Still won't defrag the MFT and
some other locked files.
That's where Contig + Power Defragmenter come in. That can defrag some locked
files at boot that O&O won't.
But there's still MFT fragmentation. :P There's a registry tweak to reduce MFT
fragmentation, but it's really only useful when applied right after a clean
install of Windows, before it gets mucked about so much.
Would be nice if there was a Defrag for 2000 through 7 as good as the one in
Norton Utilities 2000 for Win 9x and Me. There was very little that one could
not defrag. It could even defrag the swap file while it was in use. (Norton
also made the one and only defrag for Classic Mac OS that could defrag the boot
volume.) Norton Speed Disk and Disk Dr. were the only parts of NU I used on 9x
and Mac OS.
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