is there a defrag for dos

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 6:58 pm

Well..........

is there

me

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 8:53 pm

yes, its called defrag. dos 6.1- 6.22 has it

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 11:59 pm

Not sure you can defrag a modern DOS 7 partition with DOS 6.x defrag (DOS 7 is what Win9x is using).

A safer bet would be to buy Norton Utilities which includes (or at least it used to) a DOS defragmenter.

Why can't you defrag from Windows? If Defrag won't finish then there's something running in the background that's accessing the drive. You have to disable it to allow Defrag to finish. You should also turn off any screen savers.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:38 am

Easiest way to shutdown such applications would be booting into safemode, it's often hard to tell which one is the bad boy

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 8:03 am

defrag has to restart when it reads\wrights to the drive

nothing is running in the back ground the task bar (be the clock) no icons are there

but it still restart every few minuts

me

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jun 28, 2002 9:32 am

Just because there's no icons on the taskbar doesn't mean that there are no background apps running.

Also some apps hide themselves so they don't even appear in task manager (like Spyware).

As Doc suggests, try booting into Safe Mode which will avoid loading most background apps. Then run Defrag from there.

Don't be obsessed with defragging. Under normal use you don't have to defrag often. Once every few months if more than enough.

Only time defragging is important is after deleting large numbers of small files, or if you do video editing (in which case you should have a seperate empty partition dedicated for video projects anyway).