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Defrag Multiple Hard Drives At Once In Windows
The Disk Defragment utility in Windows XP does not include a way to defragment all hard drives at the same time, which is inconvienient when you have more than one hard drive in your computer.
The method we are going to use is by creating a batch file to defragment all of the drives, one after the other.
The disk defrag utility in Windows XP can be triggered from the command line with the following syntax:
Windows Disk Defragmenter Copyright (c) 2001 Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc. Usage: defrag <volume> [-a] [-f] [-v] [-?] volume drive letter or mount point (d: or d:\vol\mountpoint) -a Analyze only -f Force defragmentation even if free space is low -v Verbose output -? Display this help text
First, we’ll create a file named defragall.bat, and place it anywhere you like, as long as you’ll remember where it is. If you want to run it from the command line, you could place it in the \windows directory so that it will be available in the system path.
For each hard drive, add a line to the batch file. For instance, if we want to defragment drives C: , D: , and F: we will add these three lines:
defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f
defrag f: -f
To run the defrag, just either double-click on the batch file or start it from the command line.
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- Published 11/22/06
I have already done this but was wondering if there is a way to not show the command line box when the batch is exicuted or atleast start it minimized? Any help would be a appreciated. Tthank You in advance.
@echo off
Thanks. This is truly an eye opener….
I have made the Defrag batch file, but i’m not sure if it’s working properly. Is there any way of seeing the progress of the defrag?
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Create this archive .vbs!!! And create job in Scheduled Task!!!
‘——————————————————————————–
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Dim fso, d, dc
Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set dc = fso.Drives
For Each d in dc
If d.DriveType = 2 Then
Return = WshShell.Run(“defrag ” & d & ” -f”, 1, TRUE)
End If
Next
Set WshShell = Nothing
‘——————————————————————————-
@Tie 1 On — add -v
“I have made the Defrag batch file, but i’m not sure if it’s working properly. Is there any way of seeing the progress of the defrag?”
defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f
defrag f: -f
does not work in a batch file
Correction. Does not work if you name your batch file “defrag.bat”
try this
@echo off
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag c: /f
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag d: /f
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag e: /f
pause
open notepad then type
@echo off
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag c: /f
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag d: /f
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag e: /f
pause
then save the file in filename.bat extension
then double click the file then you have
your automatic defrag for all drive
hope this will help you guys
How do I open a notpad e-mail
defrag c:
defrag d:
defrag e:
this didnt work for me, only the c drive was defragmented and the remaining drives were skipped i dont know why , can anybody tell me ?
The Windows defrag program does a poor job to be honest. How many times have you seen the report at the end of a defrag and you still have fragmented files? Hmm, well thats a good defrag tool.
MyDefrag (previously jkdefrag) does a much better job in my experience, not only defragging your disks but optimizing them so, for example, the files that Windows loads on boot up at together in order at the outside edge of the disk, which is the fastest possible place to put them.
Your hard drive performs its slowest possible reading when it is loading small files at random locations across the disk. Think 0.5 MB/s and slower!
doesn’t work…
it only opens the cmd window and the text runs endlessly but the command never executes
defrag C: -f
defrag D: -f
defrag E: -f
Ensure the drive letter is caps like this…
francis mendoza is right. this works:
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag c: /f /v
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag f: /f /v
c:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag g: /f /v
add the /v switch (verbose) if you want to see the defrag progress & *.bat file can be run as scheduled task …
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