Scheduling a Defrag on Win 2000 Server

I don't think it's possible to schedule Win2000's defragmenter. You may have to get a third-party solution.

Sean

The built-in defragger is only designed to be run interactively and to only
allow defragging of one partition at a time. If you are good with
writing/maintaining scripts, check out http://www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/
for some scripts that you can use to schedule the Win2k built-in defragger
(simulates a user clicking on the appropriate buttons in order to defrag).

However, several things to consider:

- The Win2k built in defragger can't be scheduled EASILY - hence the
workarounds posted here.
- The Win2k built in defragger does NOT have the capability of
defragmentingdirectories on FAT partitions.
- The Win2k built in defragger does NOT have the capability of defragmenting
the pagefile.
- The Win2k built in defragger doesNOT have the capability of defragmenting
the Master File Table (MFT) or related Metadata on NTFS partitions.
- The Win2k built in defragger does NOT have the capability of network-wide
scheduling (centralized management of defragmentation).

Inorder to any of the above capabilities and native scheduling
capabilities, you need to go third party, of which there are several
products to choose from:

PerfectDisk 2000 - www.raxco.com
Diskeeper - www.execsoft.com
O&O Defrag - www.oo-defrag.com
Speedisk 5.x - www.symantec.com
OnTrack's Suite - www.ontrack.com
Defrag Commander 2000 and Defrag Commander 2000 NE - http://www.winternals.com

Hope this helps!

- Greg/Raxco Software

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk 2000, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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