Defrag in dual boot

Hi,
I seem to be unable to find my Defrag in Win XP Pro, it was there when I first installed it but now it is not in Accessories Tools anymore.
I have "Diskeeper 7 "on my 98SE OS can I defrag XP which is installed on a second HD from 98SE.

hawk22

 

Start>All Programs> Accessories> Stystem Tools - should be on the drop down menu, there.

Or, right click on the drive from WE, select properties and you will see it under the tools tab. If your XP is NTFS and you try to run a program from FAT32, I don't think it will work, but if I am wrong, someone will surely correct me.

Johanna

 

Just make a new shortcut, and point it to %SystemRoot%\System32\dfrg.msc

 

thank you,
reboot, how do I that, make a new shortcut and point it to ........... ( your details)?
I do have Fat 32 on both drives SE and XP.

hawk22

 

Right click the desktop and select New|Shortcut and cut and paste
"%SystemRoot%\System32\dfrg.msc" (sans quotes) to it.

 

Thanks guy's

hawk22

 

This is an interesting question that I have grappled with. I have a dual boot XP/ME. I have the NTFS drivers installed in ME so that both OSes can see all drives, both FAT32 and NTFS (except that the XP system drive is hidden from ME).

Both OSes have Diskeeper installed.

Since I have Diskeeper set to collect performance data before defragging, the data that it collects about the ME drive is bound to be incorrect with regard to program usage since none of those programs are used while logged on to XP.

It would seem that in a dual boot situation, each OS should be defragged from within that OS. Otherwise the defraggers will be working at cross-purposes having gathered conflicting performance data.

The other drives are defragged by the OS that uses them the most (XP) and each OS has its system partition scheduled to defrag whenever the screensaver runs.