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Title: Assorted ?s
Post by: Magnum on November 05, 2011, 06:42:13 PM

I have looked but haven't found much.

Are there any references to the logic used in Disk Defragmentation ?

I was also wondering about the O.S.

Say a 5 meg file is deleted.

If another file less than 5 megs is added, is it "put" in the hole left by the
file deletion ?

How does a registry restoration via a registry backup compare to a disk image restore ?

I ask because it's difficult to restore files/config info to their original state when doing a disk image restore.

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: hutch-- on November 05, 2011, 11:31:19 PM

Andy,

The later NTFS is a tree structure rather than a hash table structure and it is a lot less sensitive to disk fragmentation that the older FAT system. For what it was worth a properly defragmented FAT32 system was noticably faster than NTFS but Microsoft effectively phased it out from about Win2000 onwards in favour of their NTFS system.

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: Magnum on November 05, 2011, 11:59:17 PM

Thanks, found some info here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation

Based on what's here, I switched to UltraDefrag.
It's faster than the others that I have tried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_defragmentation_software

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: dedndave on November 06, 2011, 12:15:52 AM

i tested a few programs a while back
the one i finally decided on was Puran Defrag

http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag-Download.html

on that page, they have a "trial" version and a "free" version - you want the free one :U

as for your question about the deleted file, it is likely that windows will try not to overwrite that file "for a while"
"for a while" means "some unknown period" (until it needs the space or defrags)
it is hard to know when that will be - lol
but, some effort is made to retain the old stuff

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: Vortex on November 06, 2011, 04:26:23 PM

Another nice tool :

WinContig : The free file defragmentation tool

http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: dedndave on November 06, 2011, 04:32:36 PM

that one does look nice, Erol
the thing i liked about Puran was the configuration flexibility.....
(http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17681.0;id=9916)

it looks like WinContig has much the same stuff

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: ToutEnMasm on November 06, 2011, 05:22:23 PM

There is also this one:
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
But I don't know which is the best.

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: Magnum on November 06, 2011, 07:03:15 PM

Dave,

I really like Puran.

Title: Re: Assorted ?s
Post by: dedndave on November 06, 2011, 08:01:58 PM

:U
yah - i think it's the fastest, although - it's hard to measure

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