Hi Folks, I'm a very happy FS9 user and I'm also looking foreward to installing FSX. I've read that some folks plan to do a defrag of their harddrive after installing FSX. When I used WinMe I would defrag about once every couple of weeks or so. With WinXp I let WinXp analize my hd to see if a defrag is needed. I only defrag if WinXp tells me to do so.Now, after installing FSX would you suggest defragging regardless of what WinXp indicates?Thanks in advance..

I can't think of any scenario where a defrag would hurt, but I wouldn't get really high expectations for any improvement.FWIW, in Vista the defrag defaults to automatic weekly scheduling.scott s..

>Hi Folks, I'm a very happy FS9 user and I'm also looking>foreward to installing FSX. I've read that some folks plan>to do a defrag of their harddrive after installing FSX. >I haven't read about anyone suggesting that, but I will probably do it anyway as routine sys maintenance matter.>When I used WinMe I would defrag about once every couple of>weeks or so. With WinXp I let WinXp analize my hd to see if a>defrag is needed. I only defrag if WinXp tells me to do so.>Actually XP will only tell you to, if your file frag exceeds 10%, and that is, imo, too high, you should defrag much more often.>Now, after installing FSX would you suggest defragging>regardless of what WinXp indicates?>I am going to, I guess. Basically I will defrag whenever I decide to, not necessarily right after the install (I don't any advantage in doing that, as long as you keep your file sys well conditioned.) but I will defrag whenever I normally would, which is about once every week if I use the computer a lot. Less often if I haven't used it much...RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc.

You should simply let the defragger analyze the partition on which you plan to install FSX and then decide. If the partition has enough non-fragmented free space available (big white area in the defragger output), then you can skip the defragging. The file system is clever enough to NOT fragment files when enough empty and unfragmented space is available.Fragmentation is only an issue with files which frequently change their size or when the partition doesn't have enough unfragmented empty space in which case files from a new install will be "distributed" to various free partition fragments.

Hi Folks,I'll probably let WinXp tell me if defrag is needed.Thanks for your input.