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It seems that Executive Software have sneaked out a new version of their well regarded defragmentation program Diskeeper. This is now up to version 9 build 504.
Details can be found here: Diskeeper 9

Nostromo Unregistered

#57408 Posted on: 10/12/2004 01:33 AM Great! Diskeeper * is awesome. Can't wait to give this a try.

MAT0 Unregistered

#57409 Posted on: 10/12/2004 03:53 AM excuse my ignorance, can you tell me why its so great?

dzjepp Member Posts: 43 Joined: 2003-04-30

#57411 Posted on: 10/12/2004 04:54 AM It always felt too bloated for me and the last time I tried it, it gave me some hard drive trouble. I prefer O&O Defrag Proffesional, quality defragger.

BetrayerX Unregistered

#57412 Posted on: 10/12/2004 05:48 AM Same here.

Dapple Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2002-07-21

#57413 Posted on: 10/12/2004 08:32 AM I tried diskeeper and it gave all sorts of weird errors , so I went back to perfectdisk.

Orillion Unregistered

#57414 Posted on: 10/12/2004 08:40 AM I never had problems whit Diskeeper. But will look at the ones you named

Rimmel Unregistered

#57415 Posted on: 10/12/2004 09:35 AM I used DK for year... until I found Perfectdisk...

i_aM_tHe_AnimaL Unregistered

#57419 Posted on: 10/12/2004 03:06 PM WARNING! After hearing about the pagefile and MBR defragging that Diskepper 9 is known for I decided to install it this morning. One hour later it had completed SPANKED my HD. Lost half my data and had to run all sorts of utilities to get the other half back. I am NEVER going to use Diskeeper again and I recoomend that no one else does either! LIVID!

DooGie Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: 2004-04-12

#57425 Posted on: 10/12/2004 07:04 PM i_aM_tHe_AnimaL Have you emailed the Executive Software people about this. I've used Diskeeper on and off for years with no probs whatsoever. Overall though I do think that O&O Defrag does a slightly better job but there again it takes about 5 times longer than Diskeeper.

Mmm_Beefy Member Posts: 51 Joined: 2002-12-17

#57426 Posted on: 10/12/2004 07:35 PM i personally love diskkeeper. i did give pefectdisk a try, i didnt like the UI at all, and the defrag was slooooow. I did notice that DK9 defaults manual scan to normal priority, once moved up to high or highest, the defrag was very fast. i've used Diskkeeper for a long time, and no probs, the GUI is very nice looking, and the chart and info tabs are great. i found Perfect Disk'sUI reminded me something along the lines of a win95 looking app. Dapple, the errors you got, may have been due to having run another (like nortons) diskutil in conjunction with DK. Generally its a good idea to run only one disk utility and sticking with that. Animal, you may have already had problems, i doubt diskkeeper was soley responsible for destroying your data, contacting diskkeeper with the info may shed some light, who knows.

Caleb Unregistered

#57428 Posted on: 10/12/2004 08:24 PM I've been using Diskeeper since version 8.0 and I did not like v8.0 much. But once I've upgraded to v9.0, it's a completely new world! The new version is practicly transparent when it does its background defrag (unlike v8.0 which was meant to be transparent too, but used too many resources). I give Diskeeper 9.0 5/5! Those of you having problems with it trashing your HDs probably don't know how to use a computer properly. (probably one of those people who use Norton products. Noobs)

DooGie Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: 2004-04-12

#57436 Posted on: 10/12/2004 10:32 PM Caleb Apart from office work I don't understand why anyone would leave background defrag running. Never seen the the point of this with a home system. I game online a lot and don't want an app starting up in the middle of a game. You say you didn't like Diskeeper 8? After trying v9 I am now going back to v8, at least you can set it to a manually started service and it runs ok, with v9 it has to be an automatically running service. For me it takes up too much resources. Oh and before you call people noobs there was a build of v7 which completely trashed your system if you ran a boot defrag, maybe this build of v9 does the same. I dunno but I'm not willing to try it. Sorry I posted about this release now but such is life.

Longview Unregistered

#57437 Posted on: 10/12/2004 10:33 PM Having read the comments above I tried Perfectdisk. What a waste of time - too slow to be of any use. Diskeeper 8 is much better and 9 looks to be even better

Mmm_Beefy Member Posts: 51 Joined: 2002-12-17

#57438 Posted on: 10/12/2004 11:00 PM you shouldnt be sorry, it is news after all, and i've had no problem with any aspect of it, and i like it just as much as i liked version 8, i have plenty o' ram to spare, but i set the service to manual, i just start it before i defrag then turn it off after its complete, thus far no probs. the only reason i could see keeping the service active is if you use set it and forget it, or your using the built in data gathering. and i never had a prob with ANY version of DK, i still say if it trashes your system, your driives probably where not set up correctly, or it was the OS that buggered the MFT.

DooGie Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: 2004-04-12

#57440 Posted on: 10/12/2004 11:13 PM Mmm_Beefy Thanks for your comments. When I said a version of DK trashed my system what I meant was that there was a bad build of version 7 which in some cases could after running a boot time defrag not allow the system to boot. The Diskeeper peeps acknowledged this bug and corrected it within about 2 weeks.

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