Nice Freeware Defrag App

[Dae]

Have been searching around for a good freeware defrag application to put on peoples machines after servicing and came across:

http://www.defraggler.com/css/img/logo.gifhttp://www.defraggler.com/css/img/toptext.gif (http://www.defraggler.com/)

Its from Piriform - the developers of Ccleaner - and seems to do a very good job of defragmenting drives, better than AusLogic's Defrag IMO.

You can even defrag individual files without having to defrag the entire drive!

A quick Defrag Freespace followed by a full Defrag Drive moves everything up to the front of the volume nice and tidy :cool:

Hope someone else finds it as useful as I did :)

[petrolhead]

Thanks Dae, will give that a go. Have also been using AusLogic's.

Hopefully will work even if less than 15% disk space free :)

[J0hn]

Me too, ta. :)

[yorkie]

Thanks Dae,

yorkie.

[J0hn]

Hmmm - only downer thus far - it seems to take at least as long as windows to defrag a drive.

It used to take Auslogic about 10-20minutes for a drive - this one takes hours.
Whether that means it is doing a better job, I don't know.

[Polo]

Yeah, it takes longer to defrag. I haven't really noticed much difference but my Hard Drive wasn't heavily fragmented in the first place.

[Dae]

It used to take Auslogic about 10-20minutes for a drive - this one takes hours.

Yeah, it takes longer to defrag
I haven't really noticed this, although it does seem to take marginally longer to run on Vista than on XP.

It will obviously be affected by the size of drive, but on a 40GB partition of an 80GB drive
it took <1min to defrag the freespace and ~12mins for a full drive defrag.

Although the drive was only ~6% fragmented, and the best results do seem to take several passes.

When I get another XP machine spare i'll image a fragmented drive and do some better testing with Auslogics & Defrag. :)

I'll be sticking with O & O defrag as my first choice on the main machine anyway,
but as something I can just bundle on to machines that i'm updating/repairing I still think its a pretty good app.

[Reines]

I use Power Defragmenter/Contig, it is pretty good.

[|2eason]

http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

^^best. You can even run it from a preinstall environment like PE or barts PE. That means no locked files on the disk.

[Berwhale]

Another vote for JKDefrag here.

There's a nice portable version for running from a USB memory stick here: http://portableapps.com/

[|2eason]

It's portable anyway.:s

eta; that's a good website though.