Vista - Defragmenting

Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the HP
laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
through, is this normal?

Billy

Billy - there will always be "red bars" - there are areas that cannot be
defragmented. The recovery partition usually cannot be accessed
"normally" - usually a secure site.
Defrag is helpful if a lot of file movement, installations and so forth are
performed - fragmentation does not occur if there is no disk activity - the
recovery partition is static - no activity.


"Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the
> HP laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
> drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
> through, is this normal?
>
> Billy

My recovery disk is accesible to defragment and the diskkeeper trial has
defragmented it! I hope that will not have rendered it un=usable? I did
make a recovery disk as suggseted at the first boot.

Billy
"AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Billy - there will always be "red bars" - there are areas that cannot be
> defragmented. The recovery partition usually cannot be accessed
> "normally" - usually a secure site.
> Defrag is helpful if a lot of file movement, installations and so forth
> are performed - fragmentation does not occur if there is no disk
> activity - the recovery partition is static - no activity.
>
>
> "Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news0D8AB31-A7FC-42D2-846E-083AD7397F01@microsoft.com...
>> Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the
>> HP laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
>> drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
>> through, is this normal?
>>
>> Billy
>
>

You don't do anything to mess with the recovery partition - including
defragging. You may shoot yourself in the foot by doing so. Leave it alone.
Many manufacturers hide this partition so that it can't be touched, just for
that reason.

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"Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:EEC3FED8-478D-45D6-BBB3-41BAE5AD0D5C@microsoft.com...
> My recovery disk is accesible to defragment and the diskkeeper trial has
> defragmented it! I hope that will not have rendered it un=usable? I did
> make a recovery disk as suggseted at the first boot.
>
> Billy
> "AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23Zn6HkUUHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Billy - there will always be "red bars" - there are areas that cannot be
>> defragmented. The recovery partition usually cannot be accessed
>> "normally" - usually a secure site.
>> Defrag is helpful if a lot of file movement, installations and so forth
>> are performed - fragmentation does not occur if there is no disk
>> activity - the recovery partition is static - no activity.
>>
>>
>> "Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news0D8AB31-A7FC-42D2-846E-083AD7397F01@microsoft.com...
>>> Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the
>>> HP laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag
>>> any drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when
>>> its through, is this normal?
>>>
>>> Billy
>>
>>
>

"Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote

> Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the
> HP laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
> drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
> through, is this normal?

Defragmenting the recovery partition is of absolutely no value. It's not
used for file access on a regular basis. It's a very occasional, and
hopefully never, used set of files. Leave them be. Defragmentation is over
rated even on the operational drives.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]