UltimateDefrag - is this the best defragger ever?

It hasn't. Note that I didn't quote that part of your question. Considering that the topic of this thread is "UltimateDefrag - is this the best defragger ever?" it was just a general info that this feature of UD is not unique.

 

Not yet. But according to its author it should be out soon.

 

but does it increase performance ?

 

Hi Mantra - To be honest I doubt it in my case. I have 2 fairly empty drives. Once I moved the boot stuff closer to the edge I forgot all about it. The main benefit for me in having the boot defrag was that it allowed me to remove Perfect disk.

The thing that I like about PD is the way that I can split C: win xp and programs so that files used during the last 30 days are on the edge and everything else is archived to the center. This effectively means that I have a much smaller OS and can not harm performance.

 

thanks long view
i moved with ultimate defrag Boottime all the system file in the Inner surface of the hardisk

in short i move the the slide on the extreme left side

is a good point?

thanks
really appreciate

 

mantra,

You should read the pages 43-46 of the help file to understand how the offline defrag of UltimateDefrag works...

 

thanks
yes i did it
i use high performance routine automatic and custom(order of folders)
so i put the file system in the exetreme let zone in the bootime defrag

after that it appears a large zone marked "reserved to MTF"
i had not such large zone in the middle of my partition 10 minutes ago , before making boottime defrag

 

Anyone else experiencing crashes when configuring high partitions (N:\ O:\ P:\ etc........) ?

 

is normal that ultimate defrag default bootdefrag reserve 6 or 9 gb of mft

 

How can that be? Seems HUGE to me too.

 

I have 3gb on a 30 gb partition for C: and 115gb on a 1 TB data drive - everything working fast and fine

 

do you have 200 mb?
it's the defualt

 

hope ultimate defrag did not screw up my C:

 

why do you think it is messed up ?

you can impact the amount of space NTFS reserves for the MFT by editing:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Add Value name NtfsMftZoneReservation as a type REG_DWORD and set the data value. The valid range is 1 - 4.

Value: 1 12.5% of free space, default
Value: 2 25% of free space
Value: 3 37.5% of free space
Value: 4 50% of free space

 

i use xp but i did not find NtfsMftZoneReservation
maybe ultimatedefrag delete it

i have only
NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation=0
Win31FileSystem=0
Win95TruncatedExtensions=1

thanks all's

 

I doubt it. I am using Xp and have it set to 1
all you have to do is use Regedit and set the value to 1

 

thanks long view

about i haven't this value NtfsMftZoneReservation ?

 

No I doubt that UD would have removed the value

 

did you try sdelete http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx

Code:

sdelete -c C:

make the reserved for mtf disapear

 

how much reserved zone for mtf do you have?

thanks

 

well before using the ultimate defrag boot defrat it was tiny 130mb

after i did performed a boot defrag is 7Gb in my C: 60GB


is normal?

 

if you have a 60gb C: with 4 gb used then you would have 56 gb unused. 12.5% of 56gb = 7gb

Interesting questions but at a practical level does it matter ? if you have 54gb of data then yes but how much data do you have on C: ?

 

thanks for the answer
i have used 17gb used ,42,1 free


should xp resize it ? to respect the 12.5%?
after how many time or idle time , should xp resize the reserved to mft space?

 

Assuming that you use an imaging program, why don't you image C: and then

using regedit go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Add Value name NtfsMftZoneReservation as a type REG_DWORD and set the data value to 1.

The 7 gb figure should then drop to 5 gb

 

the value 1 should be the default ,right?
if is there not value , it's like default and xp should drop to 5 too