The Fastest Way to Defrag Your Hard Disk
Posted in Reviews, Software | By AhTim @ March 14th, 2008
How long since your last defragmentation on your harddisk? 6 months or 1 year? I believe most of us do not defrag our hard disk so frequent due to slow defrag process!
Why Should Defrag Harddisk?
As we know, by defragmenting a harddisk it put our files closer together. Defragmented harddisk reduces the amount of movement required by the drive’s mechanical parts and yet improves your computer performance. Technically, it also should make your harddisk last longer!
Fastest Way to Defrag Harddisk
Windows do have a build in Disk Defragmenter, but it run too slow. For Window Vista even worst. At least in XP, you got some feedback while the Windows defragger was working; Vista doesn’t give you a clue what’s happening, other than to let you know that the process could take from a few minutes to a few hours. So, are you going to wait in front your computer for hours?
Auslogics Disk Defrag is the fastest way to defrag your computer no matter Window XP or Vista. According to an Author in CNet, he claimed that:
The program did its work in less than 5 minutes on my Vista machine, while Vista’s own defragmenter took more than 20 minutes to finish. And on a tremendously fragmented XP machine, Disk Defrag got the job done in about 40 minutes, which was a third the time required by Windows’ own tool.
To experience the speed of defrag, download and install Auslogics Disk Defrag (1.52MB). It’s pretty tiny tool yet powerful. While defragmenting your harddisk, you can enjoy watching the dancing color blocks working. After defrag complete, a message pop up result on how well it optimized.
My two cents
I have installed Auslogics on my Window XP machine. It took about 40 minutes (like what the author said) to complete 20GB disk space of my C: drive. Now my files and folders is tidier in physical harddisk location. Hope my XP machine run faster after restart! 
How long do you take to defrag your computer?
[source: CNet]
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March 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
15-20 minutes for a 30 gig partition. I defrag every month of so or less depending on how often I use my PC. The reason being, the more you defrag, the less it takes for you to defrag the next round. Also, less files in your HDD means less time to defrag as well.
I do use Disktrix though to defrag. It improves my performance about 10-15% though it does claim to improve speeds up to 20%, but some of the settings in there I don’t need and I do have an old hard disk to begin with.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I installed Diskeeper to automatically defrag in realtime. The features are splendid and it runs without using up system resources excessively.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I just wanted to say thanks for the info. I was running into problems with my computer; I thought I was catching a virus. So I called my OEM and they helped me do a system restore on it (I think that’s what it’s called). The problem with that is I lost all the stuff I had saved. So I jumped on the internet and started reading the posts of fellow bloggers who are more computer literate than I. One blogger told me I needed to purchase Antivirus software. The only one I had ever heard about was Norton, so that’s what I bought. Another blogger told me that just to be safe I should buy a USB flash drive to save my important files on. They suggested a website called http://www.memorysuppliers.com, so I went there and bought a flash drive. Then a friend also suggested that I needed to do a system defrag. I just wasn’t sure how to do it. So again, I started doing research and that’s how I ended up on you blog. As soon as I’m done writing this I plan on download that Auslogics Disc Defrag. So thank you!! I think you’ve just answered my question. I will write back later and let you know how it worked for me.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am
@Edrei: Thanks for your tips. But have you tried to compare with Auslogics?
@chalgi: Is Diskeeper a freeware?
@Tiffany: If you restore back to original state, I don’t think defrag is needed. Wait until you have more files then try run the software.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Install a good automatic defragmenter that defrags intelligently in the background when the system has idle resources. You won’t have to worry about the time it takes to defrag your drives unlike with manual or scheduled defragging. Zero work on your part yet the drives will be defragged automatically.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am
@krasnopol: What is the software name that you mentioned?
May 17th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Try RegScrubXP freeware.. its a great software! one of the best i’ve seen so far.
http://www.sofotex.com/RegScrubXP-download_L7528.html