A question about Vista's built-in Disk Defragmenter

madmatt

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Has anyone figured out how to defragment just one disk? Clicking "Defragment now" appears to perform the action on all disks.
 

andy_rose

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Here's a script to just defrag only drive c in vista.
Save it as whatever.vbs

Code:
strComputer = "." 
Dim Wmi : Set Wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
Dim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Dim ObjItem,ColItems,GB, Var1
  GB = Int(1073741824)
Set ColItems = Wmi.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk",,48) 
   For Each ObjItem in ColItems 
    If ObjItem.DriveType = 3 Then 
     If InStr(ObjItem.Caption,"C") Or InStr(ObjItem.Caption,"c") Then 
      Var1 = objItem.Size - objItem.FreeSpace
      Act.Popup "Preparing To Defrag This Drive" & vbCrLf &_
      Space(3) & "Drive Letter"& vbTab & ObjItem.Caption & vbCrLf &_
      Space(3) & "Volume Name" & vbTab & objItem.VolumeName & vbCrLf &_
      Space(3) & "Total Size" & vbTab & FormatNumber(objItem.Size/GB,2) & " GB" & vbCrLf &_
      Space(3) & "Free Space" & vbTab & FormatNumber(objItem.FreeSpace/GB,2) & " GB" & vbCrLf &_
      Space(3) & "Used Space" & vbTab & FormatNumber(Var1/GB,2) & " GB", 3,"Defrag",4128
      Act.Run("Defrag.exe " & ObjItem.Caption &"\"),2,True
     End If  
    End If 
   Next
  Act.Popup "Finished The Defrag",7,"Finshed Defrag",4128
 
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ray_gillespie

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Nice one Andy, I'll take a copy of that if you don't mind 🙂
 

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Has anyone figured out how to defragment just one disk? Clicking "Defragment now" appears to perform the action on all disks.

I've never been able to use the dang thing.

Keeps saying my disks don't need to be defragged 🙁

Bleh.
 

madmatt

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I'm not too fond of the built-in utility. I like that you can schedule it but I don't like that you can't choose which drive(s).
 
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yeah... me too

i hope they upgrade it in sp1 (although its unlikely)
 

madmatt

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The only reason I don't like it is the fact that you cannot choose which drive. I could care less about the drive map.

Thanks for the script, I will defiantly check it out.
 
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cool article andy... apparently i was wrong and longhorn updates (of the defrag util) will be available for vista

cool!
 

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