Using defraggler with VFAT HDD

[weide_de]

Hello, I'm a newbie!

I want to use defraggler with a SAT-Receiver including a 500 GByte HDD. This HDD is formated as VFAT. Via USB I connect my Windows7-Notebook with the SAT-Receiver to copy recorded TVMovie-files from the receiver to the notebook HDD; later transforming to a DVD.

In the past I used the internal Windows defrag routine, but it needs more than 30 hours for defrag the Sat-Receiver HDD.

Using defraggler for the notebook HHD shows, that this program ist much faster, so I want using it also with the SAT HDD. But killing some recorded files gives a lot of trouble with my wife.

To avoid this, please answer me, can I use defrragler with VFAT formatted HDD

 

TY

weide_de (from Germany)

[redhawk]

The Windows defrag tool and Piriform Defraggler both use the same defragging API so to answer your question YES it should work.

I'm not sure why you want to defrag a TV SAT hard drive it's unlikely to contain files with many fragments or cause playback problems.

 

Richard S.

[weide_de]

Thanks for your answer! Because the TV SAT allows to record two streams from different channels at the same time, so the files have many fragments. My wife often watch a recorded file from the HDD at the same she's recording two new ones. This causes also many fragments.

weide_de