Fourteen Gigabytes Gained by Defragging!
Sat, 02/09/2008 - 13:38 — StarShadow
Two days ago, I defragged my computer. At the time, I had 120 gigabytes of free space on my hard drive. Twenty-seven hours later, the defragging process finally concluded ... with my free space having been increased to 134 gigs!
So now I have two general purpose questions:
1) My PC is brand new. Because of that, this is only the secone time I've ever defragged. On that very first occasion, the defragging took nineteen whole hours ... even though I've got a dual-core processor, running at 3 Ghz. And as I just mentioned, with this most recent occurrence, twenty-seven hours were required.
Does defragging always take such seemingly long times?
2) I don't recall having gained any free space the first time when I defragged. Yet this latest effort netted me 14 gigabytes of extra free space. I wasn't aware that defragging produced any substantial amount of free space.
Is this sort of thing considered normal?
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Power Defragmenter
When you defragment your PC the space used on your disk is optimized so you do gain some free space. However, 14 GB is quite a lot of space.
27 hrs for a defragmentation is very much. I know that the Disk Defragmenter is not that fast but 27 hrs is too much.
Next time use Power Defragmenter.
It is free and very fast.
Thanks for the link to that
Thanks for the link to that turbo-charged defragmenter! Twenty-seven hours does indeed seem a bit too long.
I was rather surprised at that 14-gigabyte figure myself, but I am quite sure of my numbers. It had been three months since the last defragmenting {as my machine's self-analysis kept saying that it wasn't necessary}. Throughout that period, I've loaded and unloaded dozens and dozens of applications. I can only surmise that after all this time, a lot of stuff became increasingly fragmented. When my PC finally decided that defragmentation was needed, it managed to uncover all that extra free space as everything got rearranged. I don't know what else could have been responsible.
Consolidation of Free Space
I want to consolidate free space on my c: drive. I bought Perfectdisk to get better defragmentation than Windows Vista provides. However, Perfectdisk skips over the Vista program files because of a Microsoft lock, leaving 43% of my drive wasted by the failure in consolidation of free space around the Vista program files.
When is Microsoft going to issue a solution to the Vista program problem?
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