Defragmenting Is Fun!
Haze
O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Holy cow! Its like, half my computer!</div> Half of my comptuer is offically a fragment, and I have no idea what a contiguous file is if anyone could please tell me that.
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Red > Fragmented File
Blue > Contiguous File
Green > Unmoveable File
White > Free Space (Where is that color now..)
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/FischyStyx/wower.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Red > Fragmented File
Blue > Contiguous File
Green > Unmoveable File
White > Free Space (Where is that color now..)
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Solved that in a few hours tho.
Yes, means the file is all in one place, ie not split into pices accross the HD.
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I need to defrag, but don't have the spare HD space (defrag needs 15%).
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I need to defrag, but don't have the spare HD space (defrag needs 15%). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Copy a bunch of stuff to gmail, delete it from your computer, defrag, move it back.
Think about it this way, haze: you've got a nice big shelf for your books, and all of these books are for some magical reason missing their covers, resulting in a whole lot of sheets of paper. If you were to take out a sheet of paper, you'd be able to read the page number and tell which book it belonged to just by looking at it. If you wanted to read a book, you could just look through the pages from one end of the shelf to the other, and when you see page 1 of the one you wanted, the next bundle of sheets after it would be that book.
Now let's imagine that this big shelf, for magical reasons that really aren't worth detailing at the moment, decides to organize stuff in a way that the pages for your book might not all be next to each other. You might have pages out of order, you might have pages from another book stuck in between the one you want, or maybe a little bit of both is happening. Nothing's really wrong with your shelf or your books, but it'll take you longer to find all the pages of your book so you can read it.
Defragmenting is like telling the shelf to spend time making sure all of the pages of your books are next to each other, without interruptions or being out of order. Hence the word "contiguous." The performance boosts can be anywhere from not noticeable to huge, depending on how badly it was fragmented and what the computer is used for.
I just wish I could get more than ~40 Kbps upload speed... >.<
Thanks for all the help!
I have 18% of free space. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Think about it this way, haze: you've got a nice big shelf for your books, and all of these books are for some magical reason missing their covers, resulting in a whole lot of sheets of paper. If you were to take out a sheet of paper, you'd be able to read the page number and tell which book it belonged to just by looking at it. If you wanted to read a book, you could just look through the pages from one end of the shelf to the other, and when you see page 1 of the one you wanted, the next bundle of sheets after it would be that book.
Now let's imagine that this big shelf, for magical reasons that really aren't worth detailing at the moment, decides to organize stuff in a way that the pages for your book might not all be next to each other. You might have pages out of order, you might have pages from another book stuck in between the one you want, or maybe a little bit of both is happening. Nothing's really wrong with your shelf or your books, but it'll take you longer to find all the pages of your book so you can read it.
Defragmenting is like telling the shelf to spend time making sure all of the pages of your books are next to each other, without interruptions or being out of order. Hence the word "contiguous." The performance boosts can be anywhere from not noticeable to huge, depending on how badly it was fragmented and what the computer is used for. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well hell now I know how a computer is organized... I think. Anyways.. its 30% done. Woo! After this I'll do disk cleanup then defragment again, since disk cleanup kept crashing itself. Stupid disk cleanup.
Create one partition for Windows and another for all of your files. Then reinstall Windows, copy your files back, install Diskeeper (Buy it or download a trial version.) and then defragment everything. Then use Diskeeper's scheduler feature and set it to Smart Schedule, to defrag whenever your drive is getting pretty bad. (It'll run as a lowest priority process, so it won't lag you or anything. It'll just use whatever CPU cycles aren't in use.)
AT 04:00 /every:t,th,s defrag c:
This will run a background defrag every tuesday,thursday, and saturday at 4AM. You can adjust the scheduling to taste, AT is pretty self-explanatory.
Also, the defragger in Windows 2000, XP and 2003 <i>is</i> Executive Diskeeper. Just a 'lite' licensed copy...
And an older version, I believe? I'm using version 9.
Thanks for the tips, I'll try out what you said MonsE, I just hope my computer is on when it does that. Unless it turns itself on, which would be wicked awesome...
What letter(s) would you use for Sunday? I imagine it would be su, but it would be good to know for sure. Also, how would you get rid of the change after entering it in?
Not sure though, just throwing out ideas. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Strange, I've never seen that happen.
The main partition on my hard drive is 80gb, about half full. It shows up as mostly blue and white, with a few slivers of red and one sliver of green. There used to be a few large portions of green, but after defragmenting while running off of a different partition, the green parts no longer show up. I don't know if that's good or bad.
I may give MonsE' lil cmd prompt hax a try though...
I remember a thread where MonsE posted a picture of a REAL fraqgmented hard drive. Full of them red colour I tells you.
Good thing you defragged though.
As for me...well, defragging was never fun for me so meh.
Seems nifty.
You DON'T lose free HDD space. It might LOOK like you do because it's moving files around but, in the end, you still have exactly the same amount of hard drive space that you had in the beginning. Following Marik's book example, you're only moving pages around on the shelf, not adding or subtracting more pages.