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fragmentation discrepancy between win98 & win2k pro

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Greeneye, 2009/04/06.

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    Greeneye

    Greeneye Inactive Thread Starter

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    Dell optiplex gx110 P3 512 RAM 733mhz, 2 HDs 10 and 20 gig. Dual booted win98 and win 2k pro both with FAT32. Each HD has 2 partitions.

    Partition D (first in 2nd HD) is win2k pro system.

    When I ran defrag on D in win2k pro -> result is near 0% fragmented files.
    But when I booted into win98, then used DiskeeperLite to analyze D, it showed 38% fragmented files.

    How do you explain it?
     
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    PeteC

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    DiskeeperLite is a far more sophisticated defragger than the built in defrag engine in W2k and may well look at files that the latter passes by.

    My best guess :)
     
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    Greeneye

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    From your suggestion, I installed diskeeperlite in win2k pro. As it turned out, the files that it sees as fragmented files(red) in win98, become yellow in win2k ( page files ). So somehow, when I ran diskeeperlite to analyze win2k partition, the page files are seen as fragmented files (red).

    So problem solved.
     
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    PeteC

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    I have no experience of W2k and W98 is in the (very) dim and distant past, but as a rule of thumb setting a fixed size Pagefile (Swapfile) prevents defragmentation of the file.
     
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