O&O Defragger Comments.....

[Headhunter]

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I am using a trail version of O&O defragmenter professional V6

http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/pro.html

Specs on machine 1 are 1.8 P4 with 768 mb ram (the 266 MHz one I think)
XP Pro SP2
Several NTFS parts.
Specs on machine 2 are 1.6a P4 with 655 mb ram
Xp Pro SP1
1 30 gb NTFS part.

This defragger has 4 methods of defragging (algorithms) and file placing:

-free space consolidation
-name
-recently modified
-number of times modified


Do these sort of defrags and reorganizations work on NTFS partitions over 10
gb and over? Is there a noticeable improvement gained if several passes are
done? I would like to try to use the reorganization via name but after a
couple of passes over my XP SP2 Root partition the drive seems to forget the
reorganization passes that O&O makes. It's a slow defragger but I'm
wondering if its worth the bother to try and reorganize by name if on next
start-up it has to go through the whole 2 our process again....... I have
not tried it yet on the SP1 box.

Any reviews from you folks here?

C.

 

[Tasslehoff]

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It's got every useless sort method except directory and file structure for
my partitioned games directory.

"HeadHunter" <Head@hunter.com> wrote in message
news:OYbU$Qx4EHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I am using a trail version of O&O defragmenter professional V6
>
> http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/pro.html
>
> Specs on machine 1 are 1.8 P4 with 768 mb ram (the 266 MHz one I think)
> XP Pro SP2
> Several NTFS parts.
> Specs on machine 2 are 1.6a P4 with 655 mb ram
> Xp Pro SP1
> 1 30 gb NTFS part.
>
> This defragger has 4 methods of defragging (algorithms) and file placing:
>
> -free space consolidation
> -name
> -recently modified
> -number of times modified
>
>
> Do these sort of defrags and reorganizations work on NTFS partitions over
> 10 gb and over? Is there a noticeable improvement gained if several
> passes are done? I would like to try to use the reorganization via name
> but after a couple of passes over my XP SP2 Root partition the drive seems
> to forget the reorganization passes that O&O makes. It's a slow defragger
> but I'm wondering if its worth the bother to try and reorganize by name if
> on next start-up it has to go through the whole 2 our process again.......
> I have not tried it yet on the SP1 box.
>
> Any reviews from you folks here?
>
> C.
>