“In accordance with Barry’s (Howard Barry Emerson) wish, Vopt is his bequest to Windows PC users”. Vopt Defrag VOPT Defrag (pronounce vee-opt) is one of the oldest still around disk defrag programs. It originally ran under MS-DOS. Although I like VOPT a lot, that didn’t keep me from writing own defrag utility. Some of the features for that… Read More »
The NTFS file system uses the $Bitmap file to track vacant vs. in use clusters. As a cluster is either in use or not, it is represented by a zero or a one. A single bit per cluster is enough to store this information. It is literally nothing more than a collection of ones and zeros… Read More »
It has come to my attention that several websites are offering a portable version of DiskTuna. As I was curious I downloaded a few. I advise NOT to download these versions as they seem to be installing unwanted software as well. They are typically offered as .RAR or .ZIP files and are larger than the… Read More »
DiskTuna VSS Safe-mode DiskTuna features a ‘VSS safe mode’. But that’s just a name that I made up. Many defraggers offer a ‘VSS aware’ or ‘VSS compatible’ option. VSS-aware defragmentation will always make defragmentation and optimization less effective. But what is it? What does it do? What is VSS anyway? Windows Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) VSS… Read More »
Quite a bit has changed since the inception of DiskTune, for example SSD harddisks are now widely available. Consensus is that defragging a SSD hard disk is unnecessary and even undesired [1]? Hmm, interesting read. Anyway, it would be a good idea for DiskTuna to determine if a volume resides on a conventional hard disk or a… Read More »