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DeFrag (Read 748 times)

Aug 24^th, 2008 at 11:22am

Brando14100 Ex Member

I am down to like 9.5 gigs of free space on my hard drive. It is my understanding that doing a DeFrag will speed up my laptop. Is there anything I should do first, or should I just hit the button? I have Vista by the way. Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Aug 24^th, 2008 at 11:39am

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NickN recommends O&O Degrag. I think that the latest version he recommend was v.8.5 even though v.10 it the latest released. I would do a search through the FSX forum for "defrag" and/or O&O and see what Nick had to say.

From reading what Nick did have to say, while defragging will probably help your biggest problem is that for FSX your hard drive to to full.

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Rod

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Reply #2 - Aug 24^th, 2008 at 3:12pm

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Try and free up some more space, and use O&O v8.6 for Vista.

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Reply #3 - Oct 13^th, 2008 at 11:41am

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Get yourself an external drive and start taking old stuff off your laptop. You can get a docking station that handles 2.5- and 3.5-inch drives for 30 bucks and a whopper of a new drive for less than a hundred. You just slide the (formatted) bare drive into the docking station, plug in the USB plug and it's ready to go-- shows up as a new drive.

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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