Get Fragmentation of a Drive on Vista?

Question

Can I get statistics about the Fragmentation of a drive on Windows Vista? The Defrag utility only allows me to defrag and adjust the schedule, but I'm missing the statistics that older Windows Versions had...

Answer 1

You could use auslogics, it's free, gives you the stats and I find it does a better job that windows defrag.

Answer 2

Just found it here. It's required to use the defrag.exe command line tool with Admin permissions.

C:\Windows\system32>defrag -a -v f:
Windows Disk Defragmenter
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Analysis report for volume F: DATA

    Volume size                         = 466 GB
    Cluster size                        = 4 KB
    Used space                          = 461 GB
    Free space                          = 5.08 GB
    Percent free space                  = 1 %

File fragmentation
    Percent file fragmentation          = 35 %
    Total movable files                 = 135,458
    Average file size                   = 4 MB
    Total fragmented files              = 26,288
    Total excess fragments              = 1,324,523
    Average fragments per file          = 11.44
    Total unmovable files               = 4

Free space fragmentation
    Free space                          = 5.08 GB
    Total free space extent             = 14,564
    Average free space per extent       = 366 KB
    Largest free space extent           = 707 MB

Folder fragmentation
    Total folders                       = 8,706
    Fragmented folders                  = 1,778
    Excess folder fragments             = 4,540

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
    Total MFT size                      = 224 MB
    MFT record count                    = 139,726
    Percent MFT in use                  = 60
    Total MFT fragments                 = 3

    Note: On NTFS volumes, file fragments larger than 64MB are not
    included in the fragmentation statistics

    You should defragment this volume.

Answer 3

MyDefrag is the just-released successor to JkDefrag. It has an analyze feature that is comparable to that of Windows XP defrag.