Hi there,kheston wrote:The horizontal "bar graph" is a pretty good indicator, especially when you have a really fragmented drive. Lots of red and single columns of any color indicate Windows is having to dance the read/write head in your drive a bit to load/save a complete file. What you want to see is long green and blue bars. A little red is ok.
I usually run defrag in the command-line manner I posted above. The messages it gives in the dos window are a bit ambiguous. However, I've noticed that when a drive is really completely defragmented, defrag.exe returns the command prompt almost instantaneously.
Try the script and you may find the first couple of passes/iterations take some time but that they complete faster and faster each time it runs.
Well, "A little red is ok" is why i was telling Robert that it is a good idea to look at the actual written report (with Notepad
or whatever) because one little red bar can stand for 1 fragment or 100 fragments. The written report however will
show the actual number, such as "53 fragments", which the little red bars can not show.
If you have never done this (i am guessing you have though) take a look and tell me what you find; if it seems like
any better help or indication of the state of the drive.