where is defrag (NT4)?
Soan Chau
Hi Everyone,
I can't seem to find DEFRAG to install on NT 4.0 WS. I thought it should
be in Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel. I would appreciate any
help. Thanks.
Andy Milkowski
There is no 'defrag' in NT. There is a free?(trial) utility written by
Executive Software - it seems to work well.
http://www.ntsoftdist.com/ntsoftdist/dklite.htm
Keith Gamard
There is no built in defrag for NT4 like there is for Win95. Try Diskeeper
Lite from
http://www.execsoft.com
It's an NT defragger. Or purchase Norton Utilities for NT. It has
Speeddisk. Or dual boot into Win95 and run the defragger in there. You
will, however, need to run Diskeeper or Norton on NTFS partitions.
Regards,
Keith Gamard
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Soan Chau <so...@grove.ufl.edu> wrote in article
<01bc01d7$8c936e80$8349e380@soan-s-nexgen>...
> Hi Everyone,
Rodolfo M. Marquez III
There is no DEFRAG for NT. You need to use either DISKEEPER or SPEEDISK
for NT.
Vladimir Reikine
But what do you need it for? Just convert to NTFS...
Good luck, V.R.
Andy Yee
In article <01bc048b$695b2f00$4bc648c2@phil>, "Phillip Ingle" <ph...@isc.wales.com> wrote:
>Why does converting to NTFS mean that you don't need to defrag?
Actually you would need to defrag, but less often.
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In article <eaVPlPJ...@uppssnewspub05.moswest.msn.net>,
an...@xiotech.com says...
> In article <01bc048b$695b2f00$4bc648c2@phil>, "Phillip Ingle" <ph...@isc.wales.com> wrote:
> >Why does converting to NTFS mean that you don't need to defrag?
>
> Actually you would need to defrag, but less often.
Why, has MS fixed the idiotic NTFS allocation strategy for NT 4.0 (there
had been rumors that they "fixed" NTFS allocation around NT 3.51 SP3/SP4,
but I've yet to confirm that this is so, and/or that the "fix" is in NT 4)?
If they haven't, NTFS fragments free space (and soon thereafter, files),
far worse than FAT ever has!
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Phillip Ingle
Why does converting to NTFS mean that you don't need to defrag?
Phillip Ingle (http://homepages.enterprise.net/isc/phil)
Design Engineer
International Safety Components Ltd. (http://isc.wales.com)
Vladimir Reikine <vl...@bu.edu> wrote
Kroagnon
Alex P. Madarasz, Jr. <mada...@erols.com> wrote in article
<MPG.d4997152...@msnews.microsoft.com>...
> Why, has MS fixed the idiotic NTFS allocation strategy for NT 4.0 (there
> had been rumors that they "fixed" NTFS allocation around NT 3.51 SP3/SP4,
> but I've yet to confirm that this is so, and/or that the "fix" is in NT
4)?
> If they haven't, NTFS fragments free space (and soon thereafter, files),
> far worse than FAT ever has!
Isn't that the truth! I've been running Speed Disk for NT, and my NTFS
partition is more fragmented from only a few week's usage than any FAT
drive I've ever had in my life! I also installed a fresh NT 4.0
installation on another machine with an NTFS partition - and it was
fragmented as bad as my own! Of course, on both systems the NTFS partition
is the Win NT boot drive.
Looks like Microsoft needs to look back a little from their HPFS days. :/
Kroagnon