Defrag of hard disk

Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?

I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
fragmented ?

BertieBigBollox@gmail.com

wrote:
> Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
> I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
> fragmented ?
>
received wisdom is that a fragmented HD slows everthing down.

Mike O'Sullivan

On 3 Aug 2005 02:09:30 -0700, ""
<> wrote:

>Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
>I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
>fragmented ?

Not of your burner software is caching files first, or if buffer
underrun protection if enabled.

GraB

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> Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
> I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
> fragmented ?
>

Well I know hard drive sector errors can cause DVD burns to fail. When I
first got my DVD burner, I went through many coasters before I finally found
the problem. I had to land up downloading a utility that I boot up from CD
to do a deep scan of my hard drive. It fixed my hard drive errors, and then
my DVD burning problems went away.

Another thing that can affect DVD burning speed is whether you have DMA
enabled on both your hard drive and DVD drive(s). Go to your hardware
properties of each device (hard drives, dvd drives) and verify DMA is
enabled. If it doesn't stay enabled or the option is greyed out for your
hard drive, it means you probably do have hard drive errors. Windows has a
feature where it auto-disables DMA on a drive if it receives too many
errors. There's a registry fix for it...but I don't remember the exact key
to change.


Dan

Dan P.

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:09:30 -0700, wrote:

> Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
> I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
> fragmented ?

It's more important if you have a system which just meets the requirement
for a DVD burner. In this case logic would seem to dictate you want every
single bit of speed you can find. OTOH, if you have a slow burner and the
rest of your system is reasonably fast then it's not much of an issue.
Depending on the OS you are running on your machine you may not have to
worry about a fragmented hard drive. At least some of the PC *NIXs
defragment in the background so it's likely the hard drives on these
machines should have little fragmentation. I'm not sure about Mac OS X
(I'm still at System 8 & 9). I'm pretty sure most M$ systems require
manual defragmentation. As I hinted earlier, it makes the most difference
on slower systems. On a faster system the improvement may not be noticed.

Later
Mike

The Wizard of Oz

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:32:28 +1200, GraB <>
wrote:

>On 3 Aug 2005 02:09:30 -0700, ""
><> wrote:
>
>>Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>>
>>I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
>>fragmented ?
>
>Not of your burner software is caching files first, or if buffer
>underrun protection if enabled.

It depends on how fragmented the drive is, how good your
controller is, whether you are multitasking, if your sw caches
everything and then burns, how fast your CPU is, and ...

Short answer - maybe, but probably not.

Longer answers available at prevailing rates.

George Shouse

Definitely. Keep it defragmented if you want a good burn.


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> Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
> I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
> fragmented ?
>

Darth Tater

If you are dealing with large video or audio files the answer is yes yes
yes. If you have a large image file that is scattered across your hard disk
then there is the possibility of errors, also there is an added finite time
for the heads to scan all the bits. If you can afford it I would recommend
using PerfectDisk v 7 as your defrag program. It is endorsed by Microsoft
and does a better job than the built in program. Also it arranges files so
that over time you won't have to defrag as often.

Netzestadt

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> Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
> I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
> fragmented ?
>

Netmask

I never defrag my hard disk. When it says it needs to be defraged I
just toss the hard disk and buy a new one. That way it's good for
another half year or so. The only bad thing is that whenever I get a
new hard disk my computer loses windows so I got to keep installing it
over and over. I cant figure out where windows goes but its just
gone.


On 3 Aug 2005 02:09:30 -0700, ""
<> wrote:

>Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>
>I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
>fragmented ?

gay-californian@usa.com

Gay Californian.....

The original post asked about "defrag" of hard disk......NOT "defag" of hard
disk.

Smarty


<gay-> wrote in message
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>I never defrag my hard disk. When it says it needs to be defraged I
> just toss the hard disk and buy a new one. That way it's good for
> another half year or so. The only bad thing is that whenever I get a
> new hard disk my computer loses windows so I got to keep installing it
> over and over. I cant figure out where windows goes but its just
> gone.
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2005 02:09:30 -0700, ""
> <> wrote:
>
>>Does this make a great deal of difference when burning DVDs ?
>>
>>I.e. Is this likely to cause you burn problems if the Hard disk is very
>>fragmented ?
>

Smarty