Boot drive needs defragging everyday!

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Hey!

The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be defragged
nearly every day...the other two partitions (named "programs" and
"games" ) don't need to be defragged very often at all.

I'm running Win98SE with this HW:

Athlon 2400 (not OC'ed)
512mb PC2100
Audigy 2
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb

None of the above HW is being OC'ed.

So, what might be giong on? The HD is only 7 months old!

Oh, and it is running at ATA100 speed (since installing an ATA100
cable a few months ago).

Faustus


Dave King -- Faustus
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"ToolPackinMama" <laura@lauragoodwin.org> wrote in message
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> Faustus wrote:
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be defragged
>> nearly every day...
>
> May I ask why you think so?

Maybe he runs defrag >analyse and it says the drive requires defraging?

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windows 98 has that analyze feature/...as stupid as it was...........
so most likely that is what he is using to determine the need..... OP
if your playing games on your system, the temp directories that come
and go could trigger 98's need for defrag....games AWA any software
that creates scratch areas or temp directories.although you could
follow its recommendation, there really isn't any 'need' to defrag
that often. set up a separate partition for your swap and temp
directories and just defrag that partition.

"ToolPackinMama" <laura@lauragoodwin.org> wrote in message
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> Faustus wrote:
> >
> > Hey!
> >
> > The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be
defragged
> > nearly every day...
>
> May I ask why you think so?

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On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:36:32 -0400, ToolPackinMama
<laura@lauragoodwin.org> wrote:

>Faustus wrote:
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be
defragged
>> nearly every day...
>
>May I ask why you think so?

Hey!

I use Diskkeeper Lite (free version) that shows me how badly the
partition has become fragmented.

To answer another question you might have, the "virtual memory" is set
up to use the D partition (programs).

Faustus


Dave King -- Faustus
HomePage | http://home.earthlink.net/~davidkinghsd/index.html
ICQ : 329002

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Another problem which can cause this is in windows defrag having the box
checked that says "rearrange files so my programs start faster". You should
uncheck this option and then defrag afterwards and you probably won't need to
defrag again for a while.


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:06:04 GMT, Biff <Biff@spamhaters.invalid> wrote:

>The problem may be Diskkeeper, not the hardrive. I wanted a better
>defrag utility about a year ago and did a Google search on Diskkeeper. I
>came across many negative opinions on Diskkeeper. One of the common
>complaints was that it gave exaggerated reports on fragmentation. I
>didn't put it on my machine, so I can't speak from personal experience.
>
>
>Faustus wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:36:32 -0400, ToolPackinMama
>> <laura@lauragoodwin.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Faustus wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hey!
>>>>
>>>>The boot partition of this Seagate 7200 40gig HD needs to be
>>
>> defragged
>>
>>>>nearly every day...
>>>
>>>May I ask why you think so?
>>
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> I use Diskkeeper Lite (free version) that shows me how badly the
>> partition has become fragmented.
>>
>> To answer another question you might have, the "virtual memory" is set
>> up to use the D partition (programs).
>>
>> Faustus
>>
>>
>> Dave King -- Faustus
>> HomePage | http://home.earthlink.net/~davidkinghsd/index.html
>> ICQ : 329002

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What makes you think your disk needs defragged every day? Some fragmentation
is inevitable and normal.