AyA316 Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 The best tweak for any comp is regular defragmation and the best defragmator is Norton SPeedisk 2002. It kicks Ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[saint lucifer] Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Hence the name, SPEEDdisk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 I prefer Diskeeper's boot time defrag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 norton speed disk actually is the best :D, tried it out once and i was like WOW! cuz the defrag thing on 98 takes 4 hrs or so n it only took half an hr with speed disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Diskeeper 7 seems much faster than previous versions. I have tried Norton. It did okay too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo1980 Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 I tried to find speeddisk from Norton but they say its not a part of Norton anymore, so which one should i try for Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Isn't it part of system works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Diskepper 7 crashed my comp. It corrupted system so all of my files that it defragged became 4KB. Couldn't even boot my comp. That is **** and I don't recommend it for anyone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 i never defrag or error scan.. they dont do anything for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 UGH! NOT ANOTHER BEST DEFRAG THREAD. GEEZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambito Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 try PerfectDisk 2000 4.0, was the fastest of those I tried www.raxco.com I tried: - norton speedisk 2002 - diskeeper 6 - o&o defrag 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dARKSTAr Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Originally posted by neo1980 I tried to find speeddisk from Norton but they say its not a part of Norton anymore, so which one should i try for Windows XP speeddisk is part of norton utilities 2002 also comes as part of systemworks 2002. i use it and it rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusu Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 yes man, speed disk is way better than others....i use it and it works very good:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 agreed, speed disk has to be the best defragger out there i've tried diskeeper and was mildly satisfied cept for the fact that whenever my hard drives turned off to save power it wouldnt run anymore until i rebooted telling me that the engine couldnt start due to power issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 9, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 9, 2002 hehe.... i rather SpeedDisk and never even tried anything. I don't use it though.. i just keep everything fully defragmented by defraggin every night just for the heck of it. That's another reason i love NTFS ... i've been copying and deleting and moving big files (DIVx and SVCD movies) around on this lil 4.8GB laptop and it's still just 6% defragmented now. On Fat32 it would be waay above that... more like 80%. I only used speedisk once to clear up an FTP drive i had onetime cuz i kept deleting the junk files that people uploaded and all that and crazy MP3s and stuff which i never liked but oh well... in oneday that drive was fragmented like hell... and speedisk cleared that all up in like 50mins :) Oh. and what tha hell? Can anyone explain this! MxxCon's Signature! Sig removed by administrator yet AGAIN: Signature still can not exceed 763MB All i can say is DAMNNNN!!!! :) for a SIG? Yikes! Where the hell you get that much storage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 It?s a joke, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 hmm i didnt really notice the difference on xp since i used speed disk last nite.....it seems slower on some things tho, it took 2 hrs to defrag my 40 gig drive...doesnt seem like much compared to 4 hrs or so with win 98 defrag (thats included with windows) on an 8 gig drive :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple-a-Day Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 check out O & O defrag, or diskkeeper full not the lite in XP both can be found on the net with " um " fixes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prash Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 yeah but u really can't note the difference on my pc, al lwhat it does is moves teh allocation tables and squash them on HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dfx Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 what about windows defragmenter? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memo Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 Quite honestly the words "speed" and "Norton" should never go together in the same sentence. Norton produces bloatware for n00bs and mom and pop users that don't know any better. O&O Defrag 4.0 Pro blows away any other defragger, including Perfect Disk (although this is good to defrag servers). The Boot Defrag option in O&O is so cool, it defrags the Pagefile and registry by default, and then you can add files that never get defragged in Windows because they are always locked (like C:WindowsSystem32). All the bloatware and tripe that Norton packs in SystemWorks (what? ~100MB?), I can get with better performance from O&O (under 10MB), ZAP (~3MB), and jv16 PowerTools (1.3MB and free). Symantec sells to the technically impaired crowd of users that can't be bothered to install and run better stuff. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 Originally posted by memo Quite honestly the words "speed" and "Norton" should never go together in the same sentence. Norton produces bloatware for n00bs and mom and pop users that don't know any better. O&O Defrag 4.0 Pro blows away any other defragger, including Perfect Disk (although this is good to defrag servers). The Boot Defrag option in O&O is so cool, it defrags the Pagefile and registry by default, and then you can add files that never get defragged in Windows because they are always locked (like C:WindowsSystem32). All the bloatware and tripe that Norton packs in SystemWorks (what? ~100MB?), I can get with better performance from O&O (under 10MB), ZAP (~3MB), and jv16 PowerTools (1.3MB and free). Symantec sells to the technically impaired crowd of users that can't be bothered to install and run better stuff. Cheers. I agree and disagree to some things you're saying here. A lot of their software does come with a bit of bloat, what instantly comes to mind is NAV2002, but to label all Symantec products as "sells to the technically impaired crowd of users that can't be bothered to install and run better stuff" is a bit off in my opinion. I know plenty of power users who swear by NAV2002 and other Symantec products, and I had a chance to peek through Norton Utilities and was quite impressed, and it most definately wasn't bloated, except maybe for it's online registration program which is easily removed anyway (a 20 meg download on edonkey - I just checked). And even if some Symantec software is bloated, they aren't bad products - and aces a lot of the reviews I've seen over it's competitors. Oh, and Symantec also have a corporate line of software which addresses the things you are saying, they're teeny (no fancy GUI) and POWERFUL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Called Domino Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Originally posted by Goalie_CA Diskepper 7 crashed my comp. It corrupted system so all of my files that it defragged became 4KB. Couldn't even boot my comp. That is **** and I don't recommend it for anyone!!! Sounds to me like you downloaded a warez version. And if you didn't, I apologize. But I use Diskeeper 7 and I would never use anything else. No problems ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 The only time I ever had trouble with Diskeeper was one time when I ran it on a hard drive that had bad sectors. Diskeeper 3 moved some of the improtant system files that Windows needed to the bad spots. Now I run chkdsk first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Blue Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Where can I find this "ZAP" and what does it do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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