Do you Defrag or DESTROY (Format)

[Over Clocked]

I personally always format. Someone once called me a "Chronic Formatter” of course he also insisted that formatting ruins a hard drive. The reason of this is b/c I have to scandisk first and of course it never goes through - so I get pissed off and just format. What do you'll do?

Oh and I got a question for you'll --- at my dad's office he wants me to set up the server (W2k) to automatically defrag. How do I do this? If I just put it in the scheduler it only opens the program and what ever happened to Scandisk in W2k?

Thanks Guys
Cole

[muno]

Most proggies accept command line options.
-M

[wyvrn]

Win2k is based on NT kernel, which never had Scandisk. NTFS never needed scandisk, I am not sure what the reasoning is behind Fat32 partitions though.

[Thud]

Most of our NT machines at work have a third party program called "Diskeeper" on them for cleanup/defrag chores. I'm pretty sure it also has scheduling capabilities. Best of luck!

[LordLocksley]

Win2K server does have a built in defrag utility. I think it has a scandisk also. I am running NTFS partitions and try to defrag monthly.
On my 9x boxes, I don't get around to defragging. By the time I realize the systems need to be defragg they are all screwed up anyway. Also most of the 9x boxes are gaming boxes that many people use and mess with.



[This message has been edited by LordLocksley (edited 03-28-2001).]

[Variable]

Set up the Task Scheduler so the disks are defragged every xxx days or so...

[wyvrn]

Win2k has defrag but I have yet to see scandisk. I find this odd since it supports fat32, but then NT supported fat16 and never had scandisk either.

[Over Clocked]

Anybody know how to get the task scheduler to run defrag automatically? I can get the scheduler to open it but not run it automatically... On another note, it seems there would be a program out there somewhere that would let you make files that hold keystrokes – that would work, anybody heard of a program like this (You could make an exe file that would follow your recorded keystrokes – so the key stroke would be like “enter” “enter” to make defrag run)?