System Defrag

[darkorb]

The last 2 times iv done a system defrag, (once was in vista, then i formatted) and this time was a few days ago. Im defragging using the windows defragger (terrible grammar) i cancel it and when i did a system reboot, it said a file was missing and needed the windows vista DVD and for me to do a repair.

Now i dl'd O & O defrag, and i feel a defrag is necessary as i havent done anything to my HD, Seagate 500gb, with only 150gb remaining. But i dont wana risk having that error thing come up again, as it scared the sh!t outa me.

So, any ideas?

[mrapoc]

Do a full check disk then do a full O & O. The scandisk should find any system errors etc.

[Toxcity]

Use a different Defragger!

Auslogic Defrag is the best to tell the truth!

Can be found here.

[Rastalovich]

My usual advice to any1 worried about something like this is for them to backup b4 they do it.

However, 500g... u got a spare 500g lying around ? >.<

U can take any random based windoes machine and do a defrag in it (from safemode usually safer) and it`ll crap-out a certain %age of the time. Some just lockup. U`r lucky u get a requester actually saying something. It`ll usually happen when u least expect it too.

From *memory* Vista was set to automatically schedulized defrag on a fresh install, I don`t know if that has been taken out.

[PV5150]

Originally Posted by name='mrapoc'

Do a full check disk then do a full O & O. The scandisk should find any system errors etc.

Yep that's what I'd do. You can also use CHKDSK in O & O