catweazle_23 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Fast on NTFS but slow on FAT. Don't know if it's because of the filesystem or Defraggler ? Anyone ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowdog Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Fast on NTFS but slow on FAT.Don't know if it's because of the filesystem or Defraggler ? Anyone ideas ? In my experience fat32 disks have always been terribly slow to defrag, diskkeeper used to be @ 3% defragging after 6 hours on a 250gb drive of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catweazle_23 Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 Thnx for the sharing your experience with FAT32. Anyway not a big issue since I only have FAT32 on my spare box, but I like to install when needed straight from a floppy as bootdisk and having XP setup on my harddrive. Easy with FAT32, but have not tried yet with NTFS4DOS. (In the past I used defrag from WinME on Win98SE, worked like a charm and very fast.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogie Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 This slowness of defragging a large FAT32 h/d is a big issue for me. My scenario is a 1TB multimedia player that is plugged into my TV AND my storage router. The storage router is only compatible with FAT32 formatted devices so going to NTFS is not an option. I've used ~250Gb of space in the last few months and I've run defraggler for the first time on this drive by unplugging it from the storage router and plugging directly into my laptop's USB port. Fragmentation was reported to be 17%... around the 43GB mark. 16 hours later it is down to 6% (around 15GB). Talk about S L O W .... That said, I don't see what other options I have ? My copy of diskeeper v8 will not defrag drives larger than 512Gb. Even without that limitation, I dont believe it can defrag a network drive (Can defraggler do this ?) So.. due to the size of the drive defraggler is my only defrag option... I just wish it were significantly faster... If anyone has any ideas as to how to speed up a FAT32 defraggler run, I am listening keenly. Cheers, Moogie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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