Disk defrag before windows XP loads?

[arigo]

I've been looking for a way to defragment my c:\ drive before windows loads and starts using files I want defragged. I was somewhat surprised the ultimate boot cd didn't have anything that would take care of it that I could see.

Thanks.

 

[Joe Average]

There really isn't much reason to do such a thing as all the modern defraggers will handle defragmentation across the board. If there's a specific reason you need or want to do this, like trying to defrag the pagefile or something, do an "offline" defrag pass with a third party defragger. That will cause a reboot (or it'll happen at whatever time you schedule) and it'll defrag whatever you specify at that time, before the OS itself actually loads.