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Defragmenting program that uses my RAM to swap files?
Satsumomo
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Hey there all.
Ok, I'm running PerfectDisk, to defragment an old 10GB drive from a friend's home computer. Thing is, it's going insanely slow, and when I look at the task manager, PD is only using 20mb of memory. Very efficient of course, but wouldn't it be faster if I could use some of my 4GB to swap files?
The aforementioned drive only has 1.45GB of free space, and to my understanding, the defrag moves files around the drive in order to better accommodate them.
Or is my idea actually slower? Reading files to RAM, then erasing from HDD, then writing them again in their new spot?
Ok, I'm running PerfectDisk, to defragment an old 10GB drive from a friend's home computer. Thing is, it's going insanely slow, and when I look at the task manager, PD is only using 20mb of memory. Very efficient of course, but wouldn't it be faster if I could use some of my 4GB to swap files?
The aforementioned drive only has 1.45GB of free space, and to my understanding, the defrag moves files around the drive in order to better accommodate them.
Or is my idea actually slower? Reading files to RAM, then erasing from HDD, then writing them again in their new spot?
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If you have the data all backed up anyway, wipe the drive, recreate the partition, then copy the files back.