Greetings,
I was wondering if its safe to defragment your bootcamp partition using the Windows 7 built in disk defragmenter. Does the defragment process only affect my Bootcamp partition? Can this harm my Mac Partition (i.e. create problems with Core OS files, missing files, etc.)
Thank You!
2.53GHz Core i5 MacBook Pro 15" (Mid-2010), Mac OS X (10.6.7), 500GB HD @7200, 4GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM, Intel HD + Nvidia 330m 256
Hi Kieran,
I have never bothered myself that much with Defrafmentating Windows partitions, although I know that it is sometimes neccessary.
So I can not propose to do or not to do it.
The Windows Defrag Tool cannot write to your OSX partition unless or alter it you have something like Macdrive installed in Windows.
Regards
Stefan
NTFS should be defragged say on weekly basis.
I use the commercial Diskeeper, now with HyperFast for its SSD support.
And you don't want to do any cross-platform, not use OS X to repair NTFS or Windows, unless the deveopers like paragon have tested and support such use.
Are you saying that I need to dfrag my bootcamp partition every week? My reason on asking this question is that when you defragment files are moved and clustered in different HDD part. What worries me is that since I have Windows 7 on the same HDD as my OSX Partition in my MBP, I may run into toruble... (i.e. freezes on OSX, data lost, bad sectors, etc.)
Thanks for your inputs
They're separate, separatte file systems, separate partitions, and where does this 'fear' come from.
If you're really paranoid do full drive chkdsk and run vendor's own utility to map out and test/format, definitely don't use or rely on Apple to zero-all a drive. Or use another 3rd party tool before you commit data or file system or OS to any new drive. Then do same once a year.
You aren't moving partitions. Files on NTFS don't have anything to do with HFS.
And you can easily run chkdsk as needed on NTFS. Not so with HFS.
As for the rest, put in place a better backup and system repair and maintenance routines.
I think Windows runs one automatically on weekly basis, and that seems to be about right.
NTFS is affected differently. HFS deals with different types of file and space fragmentation.
Diskeeeper even helps avoid NTFS fragmentation problems, especially HyperFast which is used with SSDs.
Files are always being written and when updated they don't go to the same block anyway (read, write temp, lock, delete original, unlock).
The hatter wrote:
They're separate, separatte file systems, separate partitions, and where does this 'fear' come from.
If you're really paranoid do full drive chkdsk and run vendor's own utility to map out and test/format, definitely don't use or rely on Apple to zero-all a drive. Or use another 3rd party tool before you commit data or file system or OS to any new drive. Then do same once a year.
You aren't moving partitions. Files on NTFS don't have anything to do with HFS.
And you can easily run chkdsk as needed on NTFS. Not so with HFS.
As for the rest, put in place a better backup and system repair and maintenance routines.
I think Windows runs one automatically on weekly basis, and that seems to be about right.
NTFS is affected differently. HFS deals with different types of file and space fragmentation.
Diskeeeper even helps avoid NTFS fragmentation problems, especially HyperFast which is used with SSDs.
Files are always being written and when updated they don't go to the same block anyway (read, write temp, lock, delete original, unlock).
Well my fear comes because my MacBook Pro froze while in OSX right after I defragmented my Windows 7 partition. However, I think it also was a trackpad/keyboard freeze since I remember pushing the computer power button and the "shutdown" "sleep" "restart" "cancel" dialog appeared and the Aqua Button was slowly flashing as it always does, yet I could not select an option in the mouse or keyboard and then hitting the return key. do you think this freeze was completely unrelated with the windows 7 defrag?
Defragmenting on Bootcamp...
