I was wondering also, what if you have 2 or 3 hard drives and only want to
defrag the OS and programs C: drive? I have about 300GB of backups and music
on two other large hard drives that I don't think needs to be "automatically"
defraged everytime I just want to defrag the most used OS drive.
I guess I will also look in to a third party defrager if I can't defrag
which ever drive I want to.

Thanks also,

Neil


"David A. Lessnau" wrote:

> If you just want an analysis of the drive fragmentation, you can do the
> following:
> - Find your Command Prompt program (normally Start | All Programs |
> Accessories)
> - Right-click on it and select Run As Administrator
> - Type "defrag -c -a -v" (that should give you a verbose (-v) analysis (-a)
> of all volumes (-c).
> - For other options, type "defrag /?"
>
>
>
>
> "Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3074BF31-6C93-4662-9EC9-EC5D5EFE794E@microsoft.com...
> > Yeah, but I liked the analyse button in XP. I used it on customers
> > computers
> > to see whether they needed to be defragged or not. And also, the old way
> > with
> > the % complete was very handy.
> > Mick
> >
> > "John Barnett MVP" wrote:
> >
> >> The graphical interface for defrag was removed because it wasn't deemed
> >> necessary. I don't think many people are willing to spend hours in front
> >> of
> >> the screen watching little boxes being shuffled around the screen as they
> >> get put into a contigious order.
> >>
> >> If you want to see what goes on with defragmentation then you need to buy
> >> a
> >> third party defragmentation application. For preference I would recommed
> >> PerfectDisk (see the following link on my website for a review of
> >> PerfectDisk)http://vistasupport.mvps.org/perfectdisk_8.htm
> >>
> >> --
> >> John Barnett MVP
> >> Associate Expert
> >> Windows - Shell/User
> >>
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> >> Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org
> >>
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> >>
> >> "Dino+" <Dino@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:EEDA27B9-00D0-494F-A543-32B9954112F7@microsoft.com...
> >> > The disk defrag in vista does not show much. Is there a way to see the
> >> > details and at what point it is, or when it will be finished?
> >>
> >>
>
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