What Defrag software do you recommend?

May 24, 2006 12:53 PM from

I need to invest in a defrag utlilty for my system. I use XP on 2 machines. One of them has nearly 1.5t. of hard drive space for video editing. I'm wondering what a good defrag utility would be for large files (In excess of 2gb) that could clean up some of my stuff.

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Reply #1 May 24, 2006 1:02 PM from

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Just saw this... http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/post/90831.aspx
so no defraging my media drives.

Reply #2 May 24, 2006 1:05 PM from

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i use perfectdisk 7.0....it works fast and intelligently...it's main rivals are diskeeper and o&o...all are very good...if you want to read a long in-depth discussion have a look at the following link :

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i know it starts in 2004, but the post continues right upto this month, talking about all the latest versions

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Reply #3 May 24, 2006 2:41 PM from

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Thanks for the insight.

Reply #4 May 24, 2006 5:31 PM from

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Sorry Toe for adding something partially unrelated to your thread but you had me curious and so I decided to check the google ad links here on this page since because you asked about defrag tools it displayed links toward them:

Winternals Defrag Manager
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www.DefragMgr.com

Registry Cleaner Download
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Disk Defrag
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However, when I clicked the middle one, PCTools one, I got a warning on my comp saying it is a mismatch domain and it could possibly be someone trying to intercept. Anyone else getting this?

Reply #5 May 24, 2006 5:49 PM from

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Diskeeper for me.

Reply #6 May 24, 2006 6:25 PM from

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If you'd like a no-frills command-prompt batch-file type one that works....look up 'DIRMS' ....

Reply #7 May 25, 2006 9:13 AM from

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Diskeeper here also. I've tried out others but had problems with scheduling automated defragmentation and with DK it just works..

Reply #8 May 25, 2006 1:46 PM from

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I use mst Defrag http://www.mstsoftware.com/

Reply #9 May 25, 2006 4:26 PM from

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Plus with Diskeeper you can defrag all of your drives at the same time..

Reply #10 May 25, 2006 4:36 PM from

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Yep, I use Diskeeper. Works well for me.

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