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Anyone else had problems trying to defrag using PD8? I can't find a program that will consilidate my free space on my Vista partition so I can resize my partition w/out wiping the drive.

There's a KB article on the website referring to R&R which is rather unhelpful as to how to actually disable the driver in question (I couldn't find it on my hard drive, so I guess maybe it's an older version of R&R they are referring to...).

http://www.perfectdisk8.com/support/win ... 94&issue=3

"IBM Rescue and Recovery.
The Rescue and Recovery driver ANCSQ.sys prevents PerfectDisk's boot time defrag from running.
Disabling this driver prior to performing a boot time defrag should allow PerfectDisk's boot time defrag to run sucessfully."

Have you tried Diskeeper to see if that can perform a boot-time defragmentation?

pupster wrote:Anyone else had problems trying to defrag using PD8? I can't find a program that will consilidate my free space on my Vista partition so I can resize my partition w/out wiping the drive.

There's a KB article on the website referring to R&R which is rather unhelpful as to how to actually disable the driver in question (I couldn't find it on my hard drive, so I guess maybe it's an older version of R&R they are referring to...).

http://www.perfectdisk8.com/support/win ... 94&issue=3

"IBM Rescue and Recovery.
The Rescue and Recovery driver ANCSQ.sys prevents PerfectDisk's boot time defrag from running.
Disabling this driver prior to performing a boot time defrag should allow PerfectDisk's boot time defrag to run sucessfully."

I have tried everything, you name it. PD8, O&O and Diskeeper. I found this http://www.disktrix.com/DTTrials.htm which has the ultimatedefrag program.

This is unique in the sense that unlike the other 3 programs, you can set the 20% of the frequently used files to be stored in the FASTEST outer tracks in one continuous sequence. You then store the 80% infrequent used files on the innermost tracks.

For example, setting /windows and My Documents and /Programs in the outer tracks 'should' speed up the loading and running of the laptop.

Latest version reportedly work for Vista.

Ideasmiths wrote: I have tried everything, you name it. PD8, O&O and Diskeeper. I found this http://www.disktrix.com/DTTrials.htm which has the ultimatedefrag program.

Did you end up seeing performance improvements when you used ultimate defrag?

smvp6459 wrote:

Ideasmiths wrote: I have tried everything, you name it. PD8, O&O and Diskeeper. I found this http://www.disktrix.com/DTTrials.htm which has the ultimatedefrag program.

Did you end up seeing performance improvements when you used ultimate defrag?

Well, using all the disc fragmentor makes you feels good B-) But I have never benchmark whether it is faster or not. Probably save a second or two.