defrag multiple drives in xp
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:32 pm
today i wanted to defrag all my drives, which i hadn't done for a long time... i had to find out that under Windows XP the feature of selecting 'all drives' (which was existing in Win98) is gone, and I would have to select each drive seperately and wait till this one is done until i could select the next...
after d/ling, in- and deinstalling lots of so-called shareware diskmanagers, i started the other way round:
i wrote a batch-file defragall.bat:
(the -f is for defragmentation even with low diskspace)
now executing this defragall.bat, it does exactly what i wanted: it defrags all drives automatically one after the other
this is perfect for ppl having lots of drives and want to have the job done while they're somewhere else (sleeping?)
bad thing (there always is one) is that u ought to scandisk and repair errors before defrag. this is also possible from command line/batch file with chkdsk c: -f, but i'm not sure yet what happens with boot drives, because normally windows then would want to restart for a chkdsk. I'll give it a try, but if anybody knows...
after d/ling, in- and deinstalling lots of so-called shareware diskmanagers, i started the other way round:
i wrote a batch-file defragall.bat:
Code: Select all
defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f
defrag e: -f
defrag g: -f
now executing this defragall.bat, it does exactly what i wanted: it defrags all drives automatically one after the other
this is perfect for ppl having lots of drives and want to have the job done while they're somewhere else (sleeping?)
bad thing (there always is one) is that u ought to scandisk and repair errors before defrag. this is also possible from command line/batch file with chkdsk c: -f, but i'm not sure yet what happens with boot drives, because normally windows then would want to restart for a chkdsk. I'll give it a try, but if anybody knows...
