Hi,
I just installed it yesterday and did defragmentation. After it has finished, I have noticed the red squares (fragments), so I ran the Analysis again. It still shows 5 red squares (fragments) but 0 fragmented files.
Click the red squares. What files are they?
Fragmented folders perhaps??
Richard S.
If I try todefrag the highlighted, all the squares become blue even the empty space as well. Looks like those files/folders cannot be defragmented, or ?
It's your $MFT that's fragmented unfortunately Defraggler cannot touch this file.
I've heard that Sysinternals Contig tool can process $MFT however I've never tried myself yet.
Richard S.
Contig just sucks. I have never been able to defrag MFT with this tool, at least not fully.
Perfect Disk can defrag the meta data (including MFT) if you use its boot defrag.
I know. Perfectdisk is quite good but it's not free.
Perfect Disk can defrag the meta data (including MFT) if you use its boot defrag.
That's great.
Only, last time I mentioned a "competitor" product, I was reprimanded by Hazel.
Surprised she didn't do that to you!
Haha!
That's great.
Only, last time I mentioned a "competitor" product, I was reprimanded by Hazel.
Surprised she didn't do that to you!
Haha!
Difference is you were mentioning it over and over again.
Plus this conversation is about a function that Defraggler cannot do.
I am pretty sure defragging the MFT cannot be done using Windows defrag internal APIs (used by most free defragmenters). That's way Windows defrag is also unable to process MFT and that's why it's hard to implement. Additional standalone code would be needed. I might be wrong though.
Plus this conversation is about a function that Defraggler cannot do.
I was pretty sure the last time was about a function Recuva could not do. Raw drive recovery.
I will retest though...
But, anyway, El Pusher is right, I would say.
A lot of defraggers do use Windows API, so to implement MFT would require additional coding.
This is possible, but would just require more effort & coding.
I would keep checking the newer releases of Defraggler, because it is possible they may add that in later versions in the future.