![]() Moreover it should be possible to boot time defrag partitions with NO pagefile.sys on them. Maybe it plays a role that partition C: is on a SSD and partition D: on a hard disk? I marked partition C: (with pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys on it) and.menu "Boot Time Defrag" is still disabled. (Select you Acer drive and BTD should be available for that). I think that Boot Time Defrag is only available for the boot drive, which has the system files on it. I think that I see why it's greyed out now - from the look of the drive map I assume that is your 1TB Data drive? (A big clue is that there is no pagefile showing there). You may get close with a few runs of 'Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)', if you have the time, but there will always be some files that Windows won't allow to be moved.Īnd also note that as soon as you use your computer the files will start getting fragmented again as Windows and yourself use them. The second one allows files to be packed-in to the available clusters by fragmenting some files to fill up empty space in the clusters - so although you will get them into the least number of clusters that is at the expense of some files being fragmented to fill the clusters completely.Īlso note that this process can take a long time, especially if your drive is 500GB or bigger - that's another reason why consolidation is not done much with todays larger capacity drives, it just takes so long.Īgain though, having said all that, what you are looking to achieve is something that is rarely ever accomplished. The first tries to put all your files in the smallest number of clusters while keeping the files themselves in one piece. Note that there are 2 options there - 'Defrag Freespace' and 'Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)'. ![]() To do a whole disc consolidation of a HDD and attempt to get your files all at the start of the disc/partition what you need is the 'Defrag Freespace' option which can be found on the menu under Action>Advanced. So, How to (try and) do it with Defraggler:īy default Defraggler does a mixture of both defragmentation and consolidation as it sees being the best for your drive, but you can make it do either one or the other. You may have noticed that the Windows built in defragmenter/optimiser no longer even shows a 'drive map' of where the files are, that's simply because it's no longer that important where files are on the disc). ![]() With todays larger capacity drives consolidation is not that important, there is usually plenty of free space so it's more advantageous to have the files in one piece and not to care too much about where they are physically located on the disc. There are historic reasons for that, in the days when discs had much less capacity than they do now consoildation then was normally what was wanted, so it's what 'defragmenters' did (and still do). To try and achieve it though what you need is drive consolidation rather than file defragmentation.Ĭonfusingly although they are different processes and do very different things most people still call both of them 'defragging'. (For example the Windows pagefile stays in a set location on disc, as do some other files). You can get close, but there is usually something that Windows says can't be moved. What you are looking for is the 'Holy Grail' of hard drive consolidation - it can hardly ever be achieved. ![]() So as long as we are talking about a HDD then: SSDs should be Optimised and not defragmented (or consolidated). Note that none of this should normally be done with a SSD, they work differently to spinning HDDs.
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