DOS for Defragmentation of Drives

[Adrina_g]

Hello, I want to know the way from which I can defragment my drives of the windows with the help of Dos. Can anyone give me steps to follow for doing this. I know the way for defragmentation with the help of GUI in Windows xp, but for the knowledge I want to do it with the help of DOS. So, please give me some solution regarding this.

[Devasis]

You need to use simply defrag command in your dos prompt to defragment your drive in windows xp. After the defrag command just provide the drive name as follows:

defrag c:

Use above code if you want to degragment the c drive.
If you want to know the details about the whole defragmentation then just use the command below:

defrag c: -v

[Solomon]

In the Windows vista you need to follow the steps below to Defragment the drive with the command prompt:

• Start your command prompt.
• Now type the command as defrag with the drive name which you want to defragment.

eg.

defrag -c -v

This will defragment all the drives.

There are some more options which can be pass as parameter if you want to use:

• -a: It is use for drive analysis
• -c: For defragmenting all the drives
• -f: It will defragment drive even if it is having low space
• -v: It shows extra information
• -w: For total defragmentation
• -?: For help

[MrChris-]

This is quiet simple thing. If you are using DOS 6.0 or later one then Microsoft Defragmenter is already exist in your dos. Then you can simply use the command as below for defragmentation:

DEFRAG

For this you must be in the C:\> prompt only.

[Calvin K]

You can make use of the following applications which perform the dos based defragmentation :

• O&O Defrag Server Edition 8.0
• O&O Defrag Professional Edition 8.0
• Paragon Total Defrag 2007 1.0
• Ashampoo Magical Defrag 2 2.20
• SpeeDefrag 3.0

[Lillebror]

If you are using windows xp then you need to use simply command as below for defragmentation of the drive :

defrag c:

For getting details you need to use the -v parameter with the command as below:

defrag c: -v