Perfect Disk Issues

[razorsharp013]

I have had to run 3 defrag passes today and it's still not finishing the job. It seems everything is ok except my mp3s. I don't get it. When I check the stats there is still a bunch of them fragmented, 1 24MB mp3 having 371 fragments! WTF? After 3 passes?
Anyone know what's going on?

edit: 10 minutes after posting this my computer restarted all by itself. Once it booted back up it froze. Then after I restarted it, it boots and says that the system has recovered from a serious error. Again, WTF? Oh yes, and all my firewall settings - Sygate Pro - were reset to default, like it was never set up before.
I ran a virus scan before my first defrag pass and there was nothing......So what is going on?

[sharedholder]

Same problems here long time ago ,just uninstall it and get Diskeeper.


Again, WTF? Oh yes, and all my firewall settings - Sygate Pro - were reset to default, like it was never set up before.


For me messed up Norton Firewall.

[exeus]

is this program freeware? or has it been patched cracked or a commom serial been used on it?

[sharedholder]

If he 's talking about Perfect disk 6.0 is shareware but on the web is floating the full version.

[ck-uk]

Originally posted by razorsharp013@30 September 2003 - 06:21
I have had to run 3 defrag passes today and it's still not finishing the job. It seems everything is ok except my mp3s. I don't get it. When I check the stats there is still a bunch of them fragmented, 1 24MB mp3 having 371 fragments! WTF? After 3 passes?
Anyone know what's going on?

edit: 10 minutes after posting this my computer restarted all by itself. Once it booted back up it froze. Then after I restarted it, it boots and says that the system has recovered from a serious error. Again, WTF? Oh yes, and all my firewall settings - Sygate Pro - were reset to default, like it was never set up before.
I ran a virus scan before my first defrag pass and there was nothing......So what is going on?
Mate try running scandisk and fix errors.Windows will have to reboot to doit.U could also tri norton windoctor and see if it can do anything. :D

[razorsharp013]

This turned out to be onlt the tip of the iceberg for my computer woes last night.

After those posts this morning, I had even more trouble. I was on emule and got this message from Windows.......
A delayed write message saying, windows was unable to save the data to the specified folder and the data has been lost. It said the error was caused by either my comp. hardware or network connection.
I got that message like 5 or 6 times last night.
And while checking my logs just now I realized there is a ton of Perfect Disk errors saying it could not move those mp3s after numerous tries.
And 2 tons of Symantec AV errors saying it could not scan a whole bunch of files.
What the hell is going on?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

edit: I did run WinDoctor and DiskDoctor and they came up clean.

[LTJBukem]

Assuming your drive is not full (>85%), i recommend you try Norton Systemworks. I know a lot of people think they are newbie tools, but only speed disc could defrag a badly messed up drive, owned by a friend of mine, that even Diskeeper Pro failed to defrag completely.

[razorsharp013]

As far as I know the only tools in System Works that could help me out are Win and Disk Doctor and I've run them both. And my drive is 20gigs and only have full. Perfect disk did wind up getting everything.....except the mp3 files. I have speed disk, maybe I'll give that a try and see what happens.
But what about those other problems?

[LTJBukem]

Your other problems are probably due to bad fragmentation. That's why i'm suggesting that you use speed disc. :rolleyes: :)

[razorsharp013]

Originally posted by LTJBukem@30 September 2003 - 18:05
Your other problems are probably due to bad fragmentation. That's why i'm suggesting that you use speed disc.  :rolleyes:  :)
Ok, well I'll give it a go. ...But it takes so much longer than Perfect Disk! Well, wish me luck!

edit: Still excepting all replys.

[LTJBukem]

Originally posted by razorsharp013@ 30 September 2003 - 23:18
But it takes so much longer than Perfect Disk! :rolleyes: :lol:

Goo luck mate ;) Let us know how you get on. :)

[nikita69]

whic os do u have?

[Wolfmight]

I know perfect disk doesnt do a boot/startup defrag very well..
Use Diskeeper for that function. Makes windows load faster alot of times..

[razorsharp013]

Originally posted by nikita69@30 September 2003 - 18:58
whic os do u have?
Xp......But actually, whatever the specific problem was it seems I somehow managed to fix it. I've been working on it for a few hours, including software reinstallations, a complete drive revert, twice! ....and several restarts. Still not sure what happened but I suspect it was a registry problem. I just need to defrag again and I have a lot of logs to go through.

I'd like to thank God, my baby's momma, the academy, (you like me, you really like me!), and everyone who replied for their love and support!

[Wolfmight]

Perfect Disk isnt so perfect itself... :angry: :)

[razorsharp013]

Originally posted by Wolfmight@30 September 2003 - 21:16
Perfect Disk isnt so perfect itself... :angry: :)
No, I now see it's not. I'm also going to give diskeeper a try. Found 8.0 on eMule.

[Wolfmight]

Originally posted by razorsharp013+30 September 2003 - 20:18--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (razorsharp013 @ 30 September 2003 - 20:18)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Wolfmight@30 September 2003 - 21:16
Perfect Disk isnt so perfect itself...&nbsp; :angry:&nbsp; :)
No, I now see it&#39;s not. I&#39;m also going to give diskeeper a try. Found 8.0 on eMule. [/b][/quote]
coo
yea, i&#39;m starting to like Diskeeper more.
Makes my comp run very fast after a defrag.. perfect disk&#39;s smart placement doesnt really speed things up.. and it tends to skip some fragments. Diskeeper gets 100% all fragments.

[ricochet]

I thought diskeeper took over the defrager that was built into windows ??? I have been using perfect disk and havent had any problems.

[asmithz]

Perfect disc is the best.

[zapjb]

Good I&#39;m not the only one who uses PerfectDisk. lol. I think a couple things are happening for people who can&#39;t get PD to work on their sys. One imo they&#39;re using inferior reg editing progs. And or two some progs are conflicting w/PD.

[razorsharp013]

Well, I just ran diskeeper and it couldn&#39;t have gone any better&#33; It does replace the Windows defrag which I&#39;m not thrilled about, but I never used it anyway so who cares. It was fast as can be and got everything in one pass. I&#39;ll see how how does in future uses to decide if this is the best for me.

[MUSLEMAN]

i use pd also but i&#39;m going to give dk a try i see alot of people talking good about it but i have not had any problems with pd tho

[clocker]

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN@30 September 2003 - 23:24
i use pd also but i&#39;m going to give dk a try i see alot of people talking good about it but i have not had any problems with pd tho
I always would get reports from PD that there still fragmented files after it had run.

One day I tested at PCPitstop right after a PD defrag and they said my disks were fragmented.
I DLed Diskeeper Pro and did the same thing and PCPitstop said I was fine.
This may say more about the way they analyze, I don&#39;t know.

Diskeeper is waaaay faster, though...

[razorsharp013]

Originally posted by clocker+1 October 2003 - 01:37--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 1 October 2003 - 01:37)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-MUSLEMAN@30 September 2003 - 23:24
i use pd also but i&#39;m going to give dk a try i see alot of people talking good about it but i have not had any problems with pd tho
I always would get reports from PD that there still fragmented files after it had run.

One day I tested at PCPitstop right after a PD defrag and they said my disks were fragmented.
I DLed Diskeeper Pro and did the same thing and PCPitstop said I was fine.
This may say more about the way they analyze, I don&#39;t know.

Diskeeper is waaaay faster, though... [/b][/quote]
Is there any other differences between diskeeper home and pro besides what&#39;s listed on the diskeeper site? I mean is at any faster at all, or is it just the networking features that home doesn&#39;t have?

I just dl home from the site and got a crack for it, that&#39;s why I ask.

[clocker]

Originally posted by razorsharp013@30 September 2003 - 23:44

Is there any other differences between diskeeper home and pro besides what&#39;s listed on the diskeeper site? I mean is at any faster at all, or is it just the networking features that home doesn&#39;t have?

I just dl home from the site and got a crack for it, that&#39;s why I ask.
I don&#39;t know.
The only version that I&#39;ve used is Pro.
It was what I found on the network when I searched.

[MUSLEMAN]

i always get the pro version its a bit more stable i think and more options too

[razorsharp013]

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN@1 October 2003 - 01:54
i always get the pro version its a bit more stable i think and more options too
Actually, I&#39;m downloading it right now from the network. It was sitting right there in the verifieds....and I&#39;m always looking there too.

[MUSLEMAN]

lol thats so funny boss mine just got done i tell you i love this place every thing you want is here in a matter of minutes, running and checking it now so far so good :lol: