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Vista64+Raid0=Highly Fragmented

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pitch4pd

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Hey all,

I installed Vista 64 on a Raid 0 partition on my two E7k500 Hitachi's. After installation and about of week of messing around I decided to install the newest O&O defrag for Vista. To my suprise my main drive that I use for vista had 40% fragmentation. So naturally I hit the defrag button. After it was done I scanned the drive again and now it is at 50% fragmentation, it went up! So I know Vista is forever accessing my hard drive (shows up on HDtach) but why would it make it so fragmented. Any thoughts would be aprecciated.

Charles
ps. I have a second Raid 0 partition just for storage and when I defragment that it goes to 0% and acts like a normal drive.

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The Volume Shadow Copy Service creates a huge amount of files that can't be defragmented. I still believe this is why the built in Vista defrag has no interface. They don't want you to see this. Clearing restore points will reduce the size, and turning off system restore will pretty much eliminate it. No amount of defragging with any tool I have tried will touch it, even offline.
 
Now I need to figure out how to tailor down system restore but as usual vista makes it near impossible to tailor things and just give you an on off option. Oh well I will figure it out, thanks for solving my fragmentation mystery.

edit: I found a website that explained what keys in the registery let you tailor this to your liking. Apparantly MS thinks you need to use 15% of your hard drive for system restore. Also they think you need your restore points for 149 year. How novel.

Charles
 
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