Need a free and decent solution that can defragment my HD's better

[ThePhantomPain]

Well actually the title off this post says it all, I am looking for a maybe free tool to defragment my harddisk, cause the stupid defragmentationtool within windows XP likes to place some files stuburnly at the end off the partition.

I hope you can help me out on this one,

Yours sincerely,

ThePhantomPain.

 

[tipstir]

You have two ways in XP already

1 you might already know and the other is:

Click on start
click on run
type: cmd
type: defrag c: /f

Non free are O&O Defrag Pro is better but doesn't have much when it comes to the MFT (master file table) this gets fragmented a lot Diskkeeper does a better job. There is also a free Defrag from Wininternals that runs when you reboot the PC in XP DOS.

 

[ThePhantomPain]

Owww thx the thing is number 1 is out off the question, cause I need to shove all data at the start off the partition, so I can resize them for a linux distro.
BTW it's not even for me, but for a friend, cause I run linux more from a live-cd, cause at the moment I like to learn commands and stuff in linux the somewhat safer way.
But yes the thing is I need to shove all at the start and the windowsincluded just as diskeeper plop some files that are windows systemfiles at the end off the diskspace.

 

[tekNerd]

You can use contig or dirms. I use dirms (the free version) and it's nice.
I found some guis for it and we get along very well.
Not sure that is what u need, but they are free.

PS: If u want to learn Linux why don't u use virtualization?

 

[ThePhantomPain]

Yeah I thought about it, but I have a not so performand system here, like a computer from like three and a half year ago, that has parts that make a weird sound, so I stick with the live cd solution just to be on the safe side.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

If you have enough space on another partition/harddisk in that PC, copy everything over and back, that will defrag it all AND place everything at the front of the original partition. Then take an image.