Windows Media Center on Vista also has a "daily maintenance" option that you can set to get your hard drives defragged. I use the start of the broadcast day (4am) as I rarely record stuff at this time. Press the green button and scroll down to "settings"...
On 17/08/07, Chris Santry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Cartwright wrote: > > Hello all, > > There seem to be a lot of set top box geeks around here, so perhaps > someone can answer a question I have. > > With all the recording, deleting, pause functionality today's PVRs have, > and the large volume of data I'd imagine its shifting around, doesn't the > hard disk get really fragmented? Does the software deal with this, or does > it not bother because streaming the content off the disk even when its > fragmented not a very intensive task? > > Cheers! > Jason > > I'm not sure about any other PVR, but I do know that Sky+ boxes have a > defrag application loaded onto them. > > Press Services, 4, 0, 1 and the Select and choose 'Sky+ Planner Rebuild' > or something to that effect. > > I'm not sure whether the box does this automatically every now and again > or whether this "feature" is just to help sort out corrupted hard disks > remotely. > > I've used this on my own box and it actually recovered quite a bit of disk > space! > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Chris Santry > > > > > > > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv
