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Had my friend defrag his Vista an hour and a half ago and it's still going but been a couple of years since he did it last. Evidently Vista defrag doesn't have a progress bar so.......is Vista like the old XP that took forever and would start over if the screensaver comes on or is it stalled out but can't tell?

Well, I just got a call and from what I can tell it has finished it's defrag. On diff he can see is that it says " defrag now". I just love Vista, eyh?

Doesn't restart if the screen saver kicks in, just keeps right on going. But after not defragging for a couple years it is probably going to take more than one pass to really clean everything up. Defrag once a year and it takes hours and hours to finish, once a day and it takes seconds to finish.

How often should you defrag for an "average" user?

Average user, heavy user, light user; doesn't make a difference, daily works best.

*Just learned something*

I thought NTFS was supposed to be better about fragmentation than FAT. Apparently that's not really the case.

Yeah not really, its more up to how the OS caches/performs writes and Windows isn't particularly good at avoiding fragmentation.

i have 7 Pro and i run Defraggler weekly

I know there are ext3 drivers out there for windows... does an ext3 drive being run by windows need defragmentation?

snoopy wrote:I know there are ext3 drivers out there for windows... does an ext3 drive being run by windows need defragmentation?

Probably:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Defragmentation

I don't think there is a file system in existence for hard disks that doesn't eventually require defragmentation. SSDs on the other hand...

If all you're concerned about is fragmentation, then packing all of your files at the beginning of the disk is a bad idea, since packed files quickly fragment. If you make certain assumptions about rotational media, then this is sometimes an acceptable tradeoff.

I defrag mine once a week with Auslogics disk defrag. It gets the job done quickly.

Krom wrote:

snoopy wrote:I know there are ext3 drivers out there for windows... does an ext3 drive being run by windows need defragmentation?

Probably:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Defragmentation

I don't think there is a file system in existence for hard disks that doesn't eventually require defragmentation. SSDs on the other hand...

You are correct. Ext3 suffers from fragmentation to a much lesser degree than FAT, though. Ext3 really shines when your drive is relatively empty... because there's plenty of open space into which new files can be inserted. Once the drive starts getting full, things get a lot more fragmented.

I need to get myself one of those SSD's some day.

Diskeeper's "set and forget" works well

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