[Pro] Defrag right after install?

I just got a shiney new 250Gb Maxtor, which is nice :)

Its occurred to me that when I defrag my current drive, I'm still left with a lot of stripey areas at the front of the drive. I'm pretty sure that when XP installs it uses all sorts of temp files that get deleted as it goes along. This must leave behind bits of space that get written to once I get going with using the PC, so even my start position is fragged.

It struck me that it could be a good idea to do a defrag right after installing XP, so that my start position is as good as it can be, with minimum spaces at the front end.

Maybe this is well established practice, but then again maybe its a dumb idea for some really good reason?

Yes that helps and there are times when you might try immeadiately doing a second defrag.

But remember that each defragger uses different paramters and the version of diskeeper in XP is not all that good. After testing about 8 of them , I got Perfect disk.
http://www.raxco.com/

Perfect Disk is excellent, but if you want a free option then Diskeeper Lite is good: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207 as long as you only need to defrag one disk at a time, and don't require all of the features of the full Diskeeper, it's pretty good for a freeware app.


Liam

The start of the partition will usually be the pagefile. It shouldn't be fragmented after a clean install, but only the better paid for defraggers will touch it anyway. FWIW, every defragger that I've ever used reports very little fragmentation after a clean install, but there is no harm in doing it anyway. I like PerfectDisk too.

Mentioned it in another post,but just finished with beta testing Perfect Disk 8. As far as I'm concerned,the Raxco product cannot be beat. Unlike others,it also offers to defrag the system and page files offline. They cannot reasonably be defragged in windows. Some progs will offer to lock all handles then defrag in windows,but that is very inefficient and not reliable.

Just my 2¢ worth...

Thanks people, I'm going to try perfectdisk as I go with the install, I'll be back with a progress report.