Defragmenting?

weslee

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Jan 11, 2005
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Hey... are there any programs out there for my xbox that will allow me to defragment the hard drive? I would like to think that after moving stuff on and off of the hard drive that it would become quite defragmented.
 

Mad-Man-666

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Feb 12, 2004
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i havent seen any. it would be very nice.
 

da_supa_fish

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Aug 30, 2004
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i've been looking for a defrag prog for awhile now and still haven't seen one.
 

weslee

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Jan 11, 2005
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Michigan, USA
that stinks.... i googled for a response, but all I found were people saying that the xbox doesn't need it, but all I have to say is that it sure DOES need it.... the bottom line is that it's a hard drive, and stuff is being put on and off of it ... for anyone with a modchip and a 120-200 gig hard drive, it is very needed.
 

gamersha794

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i don't see any of the normal problems of a fragged HD with my xbox HD, like slow load and seek speeds, the only part of the HD that is actively re-written is on a seperate partition and therefore doen't affect the load/seek times for any of the games or media.

When you run a normal computer and do anything with it, something gets re-written on your HD. On my computer at home I have all my downloads go to a seperate partition, as well as my windows installation and I have virtually no problems with Defragmenting. I move a lot of data in the downloads partition too, (10-15gig's down, and 5-10 up, yes i'm a leach, but cable has crap for upload), I only have to defrag that maybe once a month( usually %5-10 frag). I'm pretty sure you don't move anywhere near that kind of Data on your xbox. That's why I say the community doesn't need a defrag tool.

Also another problem would be that in testing out a defrag tool any sort of bug in the prog, and you have to know there will be one, that bug would more then likely corrupt your entire HD.

I say the risks out weigh the benifits.
 

chaosfactornine

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Feb 18, 2004
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I could see the benefit of a defrag prog for the Xbox. I move stuff on and off of my HDD all the time...

Will anyone write one? I don't think so...

I agree with gamersha794 in saying that no one would want to use a beta that might screw the info on your HDD and make it unusable.

If you want your files in perfect order, FTP all of them to your computer, format, and then FTP them back to your XBOX. I would imagine that should take care of it.