Vista - Defragging D?

My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit, SP1. I purchased my desktop approximately a year and a half a go and the default Defragmenter was set to once a week for both C: and D: and I have left it that way ever since.

However (and I am not too computer savvy, unfortunately), I have read that since D: in my Vista OS is merely a locked Recovery, it should never be defragged. Is this true, and for all the time I have been defragging it weekly, could this have hurt System recovery should I ever need to use it?

Any advice would be appreciated and apologies for poor English.

As far as I can see there shouldn't be a problem with defrag, I know everything works out ok in XP, so my guess would be that Vista should be the same.

Hi Aigurs and welcome to Vista Forums

There should be no problems with leaving the Defragmenter set at its defaults. However, if the D: drive in your system is the recovery partition, you should ensure that you do not use it to store your own files. Also, even if the partition isn't completely used, you must not shrink it as that space is used as temporary storage for file manipulation by the recovery software.

G'Day Aigurs,

To answer your question first.
I'm in a similar situation and set-up to yourself [check My System Specs], and likewise, automatically run Defragmentation of C: and D: drives on a weekly basis. I have had the need a couple of times to do a System Restore, and have noticed no ill effects of the defragmentation, so there shouldn't be any problems. I also run Auslogics defragmentation from time to time.

It is a very useful and easy run defragmentation tool listed here;

Vista Forums>Software>Free Software List for Vista, or here;

Free Software List for Vista

and is available free for download from Auslogics, here;

Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag

Welcome!
Welcome to Vista Forums Aigurs , and all the best for 2009 from Aussie Mate!! You will find a great bunch of people here, always willing to help you if you get into any strife, and who are ready to answer any questions about Vista and all of its workings and interactions etc., that you may have. I had no problems understanding your English at all. And if you don't understand an answer that is given, just post again asking for a simpler explanation.

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Thank you all very very much. It is an ease of my mind. I had (in the meantime, for a week) turned off Defragger for D but will now turn it back on for the weekly defragmentation.

Much thanks to all of you!

No worries Mate. Happy to help.