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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 19:21 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 19:26
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I know, worthless and pointless post. But I'm pretty much confined to a chair for the weekend.


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Opposing force
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 19:21 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 19:22
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Edit.

http://www.freewebs.com/teammegabasic/
For low price FPSC and Dark BASIC media packs.
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Oolite
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oh dear...

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hessiess
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 19:34
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just defrg it

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5867Dude
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Defrag that hard drive now!

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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 19:46 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 19:47
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That may take a while...
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Osiris
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Do it like three or four times...

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5867Dude
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Quote: "Do it like three or four times..."

[cough]Or Twenty or Thirty[/cough]

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bitJericho
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lol, you only need to defrag once, any more than that and your just wasting time^.^ But ye, that's pretty bad


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Osiris
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Lol 372 out of 372 GB free: 99%...

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Veron
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Wow.... that is seriously scary. Don't defragment that, go out and get yourself Diskeeper Lite. It's free, and it defragments quicker, more efficiently and has a nicer interface with more features overall. The Windows one is alright, but it'll take you a looooong time, and even then, it won't defrag as well.


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Satchmo
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I forgot how to get to the defragmentation window, I'm almost sure its through the control panel though.

Your about to get pwned.
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MonoCoder
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Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter...

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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 22:13 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 22:15
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Eeek!



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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 22:22
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Looks like both of you need a bigger Hard Drive, mine has 250GB and it's 2 years old .


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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 22:30 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 22:32
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Quote: "Lol 372 out of 372 GB free: 99%"

Just bought that yesterday.


I have Norton tools, all it did when I clicked defrag from its menu was open windows defrag, which usually doesn't do a very good job even after 5 defrags.

Quote: "Don't defragment that, go out and get yourself Diskeeper Lite"

Thanks Veron, I've been looking for a better defrag utility.


Friend of mine installed a fresh copy of Vista on a freshly formatted harddrive. After the OS install, the drive was already 20% fragmented. That's just an insane lack of efficiency.


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Satchmo
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 22:35 Edited at: 7th Oct 2007 22:37
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Wow, so did he defragment it? I'm guessing yes.

@Gil
Ill be saying that to you when I get my 1TB drive.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 22:50
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And I'll be laughing when my 40GB lives longer than all your unreliably huge harddrives!


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hessiess
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my laptop has a 110 gig hdd, the entire filesystem is curently 8 gig. why the need for enormas hdd's?

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 23:08
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You mean the entire contents on the drive is only 8GB? (that's just Vista alone right there!)

I have over a decade of files and projects collected. My C: drive doesn't really store any of my files, all that space taken up is just from installed software. Your average game these days is 4GB or more. My media drive is for my 250GB of music (legit rips, not downloaded). Things add up.


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I like jkDefrag, its free and generally does a better job than windows defrag. Also it comes with a .scr file so you can set it as your screensaver .

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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bitJericho
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I have about 500gigs of video and music, (all legit), it adds up pretty fast. It wont be long before we have 60 gig games coming either, what with blu-ray and hd-dvd


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Hmmm, DiskKeeper seems to have replaced the original windows defrag completely. It actually looks like it was an add-on to the default tool.


DiskKeeper was a little faster than Windows, and did a MUCH better job on the first run through.


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You may want to try PerfectDisk 8.0 by Raxco software. In principle it's "Smart Placement" method will make everything load faster, but I didn't always find it to be the case

So while you MAY want to try PD, Diskeeper is a pretty good utility. I think somewhere (a while ago) I read that the defragger bundled with Windows 2000 and newer is just a crippled version of Diskeeper
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I've seen fragmentation worse than that Phaelex!

But yeah, that was pretty bad.

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Satchmo
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I cant wait until we have 30+ TB flash drives. No load times, no crashes, ten times as durable!

Your about to get pwned.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Oct 2007 06:19 Edited at: 8th Oct 2007 06:22
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Quote: "I've seen fragmentation worse than that Phaelex"


Oh really? I just happen to have a picture of my defrag from about a year ago. I'd like to see someone top this one!





Btw, my Window colors are not set that green shade, it's the gif compression.


Quote: "I cant wait until we have 30+ TB flash drives. No load times, no crashes, ten times as durable!"


You've never seen a flash drive crash? You're lucky, cause I've seen many people toss away their flash drives because they just suddenly failed.


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I guess I'm a lucky one.

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That's about how it looked Phaelex. Haha, it was bbaaaad. Not MY computer of course... someone elses

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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Oct 2007 07:35
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The major reason why it got so bad was because windows defrag refused to work properly for a long time and then I just eventually forgot about it.


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Posted: 8th Oct 2007 08:35
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Quote: "lol, you only need to defrag once, any more than that and your just wasting time^.^ But ye, that's pretty bad"


XP and Vista it's designed to be run multiple times, so it takes less time to defrag. It also means it can adapt the performance to better than it is with multiple passes.

Vista has an option to let it keep going for X amount of passes, but only from command line.

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Posted: 8th Oct 2007 19:05
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You havea worse drive but more free space than me.



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Quote: "XP and Vista it's designed to be run multiple times, so it takes less time to defrag. It also means it can adapt the performance to better than it is with multiple passes.

Vista has an option to let it keep going for X amount of passes, but only from command line.
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I was under the impression it does as good a job as it'll ever do on the first pass. I could be mistaken, regardless I'm not that anal about a defrag, the speed gain is negligable.. that said I do defrag every so often, probably about once every 3 months or so.


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Veron
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Quote: "Hmmm, DiskKeeper seems to have replaced the original windows defrag completely. It actually looks like it was an add-on to the default tool."


Hmm, that's weird, it never did that for me. Ah well, i'm glad it worked well for you.


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My hardrive was WAY Worse.

Not even a strait suit, you, caramel, the recycling bin, uber code, and chuck norris combined can keep me safe from me. Mostly cuz I exist.
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Only way you're could've been worse is if that bar was solid red!


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I just ran a defrag. It minused from my free space. I was at 5%, now I'm at 4.



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I had set Vista to defrag once a week before I get up, so I don't have to worry about it really

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edit: I know, a grand bump for the sake of a vague attempt at being funny.

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lol @ MonoCoder

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lol @ MonoCoders attempt to modify Zotoaster's avatar.



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@MonoCoder:

Attempt succesful.


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