Comments on: Raxco PerfectDisk 2008 Professional Regged-FOSI

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:51:51 +0000

Nevermind, i fixed the problem. i deleted my Folder Lock program and now PD works fine

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:27:25 +0000

I also get the BSOD error. i just purchased this and everytime I try to analize my harddrive it works fine till it gets to 99% then BSOD. i tried uninstalling/reinstalling and updating my drivers but nothing. Im running Windoews XP Pro.

By: bozo

bozo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:15:28 +0000

On vista this works for a while & then just stops defraging midstream. Uninstall and reinstall and awy it goes again.But when you go to use it again it just stops once more. O&O might not have as much “fill” bit at least it is more reliable and doesn’t 5hit itself halfway through a defrag session.

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:12:20 +0000

I get a BSOD error also after it has finished analyzing.

By: Captain

Captain — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:02:51 +0000

Everytime I start the analyze process in Vista of the Vista partition, using PD 2008 Pro, it BSOD with error 00000000×8E

Anyone got a fix?

By: HorizonX

HorizonX — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:04:52 +0000

Personally I use O&O, went from O&O to PerfectDisk back to O&O again, maybe this version is better. Both are loads better than PerfectDisk, which doesn’t even bother to consolidate free space, defrag every last file, or even attempt to guess at optimal placement.

By: dragoshell

dragoshell — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0000

Won’t you post Diskeeper too?

By: k

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:33:48 +0000

@48: Fragmentation in Linux is minimized, not absolutely done away with.

@53: Restricted OS support is usually the result of the developer deciding to use more recent and/or superior APIs. This is particularly true of any app requiring NT 5+ (Windows 2000 or above).

By: MwR

MwR — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:41:21 +0000

I get a blue screen saying my computer need to shutdown because it encounter some error while I am installing this software… anybody had this error? BTW I am using windows XP Pro. NTFS formattted harddisk..

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:19:21 +0000

It makes me sick the way the makers of defrag software try to play on people’s fears; “If you don’t buy our product and defrag your system, programs will start to freeze up on you, games will crash and eventually you won’t be able to use your computer at all!!!”

While it’s true that fragmentation slows down file access times, that’s all it does. In reality, except for the placement of the blocks that make up the file, fragmented files are no different than unfragmented files. The OS doesn’t see any difference between the two. It looks up where the parts of the file are on the drive, then goes there and gets those parts. It’s not as if there are two completely different procedures that are used based on whether a file is or isn’t fragmented.

In any case, does anyone else find it odd that these programs all support defragging FAT16 and FAT32 drives, but they no longer work on the versions of Windows that used those file systems? Windows 98 has been declared obsolete and support for it dropped, shouldn’t they do the same with older file systems?

By: Loachdriver

Loachdriver — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:37:44 +0000

As 43 & 49 I un-zip, start install & it asks for a disc. Any one have a fix for this? Thanks.

By: Flame

Flame — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:30:19 +0000

Just to let you guys using MacBook with Boot Camp (dual boot windows and os x) this had destroyed my $mft and i had to reformat BOTH partitions and reinstall – so beware, i even sent an email to their support about it and they say there is nothing they can do about it !
Here is the link to their Knowledge Base http://www.raxco.com/support/kb_detail.cfm?kbid=615&prod=1&ver=8.0

Beware !

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:40 +0000

@34 that serial number does work. I tried it.Pretty good program overall.

By: rar02

rar02 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:12:42 +0000

“Cannot un-rar or un-zip this, keeps asking for a disk?? any help guys?”

Same here. Asked once already :/

By: Atlas

Atlas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:12:31 +0000

what is this space optimizing defragmentation you speak of? Why not use a file system that does not fragment to begin with? Such as ext2/ext/ReiserFS, instead of FAT or NTFS? Rhetorical question. You use windows.

http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.fedoraproject.org