Good Defrag program - suggestions?

[pacmania_2001]

It has been awhile since I defragged my HDD and it is becoming noticeable when I watch DivX movies (think of a badly dubbed movie). Anyway I thought I would finally get around to doing it but need some suggestions for a good freeware/shareware degragment program.

I was using Diskeeper but that screwed up and before that Norton Utilities. So what program do you use and would you recommend it?

[Craig Tucker]

Whats wrong with the windows one

[Faustus]

Nothing wrong with the Windows one, and BTW in 2k or XP the drag problem is a stripped down licenced by MS version of Disk keeper. But I've never had a problem with defrag.

[holistic]

You tried FDISK ?.... :P

Seriously , I used to use http://www.vopt.com/VoptXP.htm
this, but since i now have my video on a seperate drive i simply burn it to CD/DVD and format the drive. Rarely defag now because most of my files are on seperate partitions/drives from the OS.

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[stiltman]

http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html

or

http://www.executive.com/coverpage.asp

[rallynavvie]

I just use the Norton one because I can customize certain files to be on the inner or outer portions of the platters. I'm sure there are others that do this as well but since I've got SystemWorks I may as well use it. Nothing wrong with the Windows defragger, but I'm not sure if it rearranges files like the Norton one (less frequently-used items go to the end of the line). Not even sure if it really makes a difference. I defrag each drive once a week and I suggest people do the same. You can schedule it to do it while you're sleeping if you wish.

[Reaper88]

I use disk keeper lite. Works great.

[tenders]

Norton Speed Disk

[RabidDog]

Yes agree diskeeper lite better than m$ as it is much quicker. A good idea to defrag on regular basis as ordinary internet use leaves loads of small files around. Downloaded files are normally very very fragmented. Copying a large file from one physical disk to another will tend to put it into one clump as well.

[BJ_M]

http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html

or

http://www.executive.com/coverpage.asp

OO is the best hands down ..

norton (except for ghost) anything tends to screw a system up somehow almost everytime ... though speedisk isnt that bad i understand .. norton = king of bloatware though ...

[stiltman]

OO is the best hands down ...

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"Hands down, O&O Defrag is the best defragmentation tool I've seen to date. ... For my money, I'd go with O&O."
Joseph L. Jorden, Chief Technical Officer for Dugger & Associates
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I've been using it ever since I went from win95 to NT4 then to Win2K

I do like diskeeper too, but I only use it on my servers