nickbel Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Hello. First, I'm sorry for my bad english. I have a problem with a Defraggler v2.14.706. One of my partitions formatted in NTFS, and compression is enabled. On this partition is installed a several games from Steam, and after every defragmentation some of them became malfunctional. Steam check game cache and found some defected files, and redownload them. Moreover, the Chkdsk found and recover hundreds of files on run after every defragmentation by Defraggler. My HDD SMART is ok, and Defraggler works correctly on other partitions, that contains files without compression. Thank you if bug will be fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Could the problem be conflict from Steam thinking that D.F. is interfering/cheating its monitored games ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbel Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 No, not only steam-games getting damage after defrag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 12, 2013 Moderators Share Posted July 12, 2013 Just a guess/theory but could that partition be faulty, bad sectors or such, and DF is restructuring files onto those dodgy parts. Theory could be proved if those files on that partition could be moved elsewhere, then run DF on that 'new' partition. Old partition could then be low-level formatted to lock off any problems found during format. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I advise strongly against NTFS compression. I/O operations become slower and you get a lot of fragmentation. You can NTFS compress static data such as applications (Program files), but anything else (specially files that are modified/written frequently) is not advisable. Also, it's seems to be common lore that when disk issues arise, recovery options are slimmer when NTFS compression is used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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