I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.

It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it said it could
not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the analysis looked just as
bad after as it did before it started. It barely did anything...IF anything.

Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig

What can be done ?
Thank you for any input.

Brad

How much free space on the hard disk?

Select View Report and then select Save As. Now find VolumeC.txt in
your My Documents Folder and double click on the file to open it. You
will see a copy of the Report from Disk Defragmenter.You can then copy
and the data into a further message here. It should look like this:


Volume (C
Volume size = 48.45 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 7.92 GB
Free space = 40.53 GB
Percent free space = 83 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation = 0 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 50,615
Average file size = 198 KB
Total fragmented files = 32
Total excess fragments = 97
Average fragments per file = 1.00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 50 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 3,902
Fragmented folders = 2
Excess folder fragments = 2

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 59 MB
MFT record count = 54,571
Percent MFT in use = 90 %
Total MFT fragments = 3

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
16 4 MB \stub.log
16 362 KB \Documents and Settings\Gerry
Cornell\Local Settings\Temp\bbassistant.log
11 485 KB \WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini
7 4 MB \WINDOWS\pfirewall.log


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Brad wrote:
> I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.
>
> It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
> accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it
> said it could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the
> analysis looked just as bad after as it did before it started. It
> barely did anything...IF anything.
> Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
>
> What can be done ?
> Thank you for any input.

How full is the drive? Defrag needs about 20% free space to work.


"Brad" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:NILxh.898933$5R2.337030@pd7urf3no...
>I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.
>
> It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
> accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it said it
> could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the analysis looked
> just as bad after as it did before it started. It barely did anything...IF
> anything.
>
> Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
>
> What can be done ?
> Thank you for any input.
>
>
>
>

hello brad,

sometimes defrag in safemode
helps. however, before doing a defrag in
safemode

first make sure your virtual drive/pagefile
size is configured appropriately.

I suggest that you make it a custom size
for a min of 2 and the max 1152.

before rebooting initiate a chkdsk
via the drive properties/tools in explorer.

reboot and return to safemode.

now try your defrag again...

- db
"Brad" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:NILxh.898933$5R2.337030@pd7urf3no...
I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.

It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it said it could
not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the analysis looked just as
bad after as it did before it started. It barely did anything...IF anything.

Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig

What can be done ?
Thank you for any input.

I am actually responing to the post dated 1/6/07, about the amount of free
space on the C drive. Ur instructions were very good and I followed them to
the word. My problem is I couldn't get the slider to stay on 700 mb. I could
go 625 or 826 approximately, but not 700 on the dot. Which number is best?
Once again the instructions were great. Thanks
--
bug*sly


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

>
> Brad
>
> How much free space on the hard disk?
>
> Select View Report and then select Save As. Now find VolumeC.txt in
> your My Documents Folder and double click on the file to open it. You
> will see a copy of the Report from Disk Defragmenter.You can then copy
> and the data into a further message here. It should look like this:
>
>
> Volume (C
> Volume size = 48.45 GB
> Cluster size = 4 KB
> Used space = 7.92 GB
> Free space = 40.53 GB
> Percent free space = 83 %
>
> Volume fragmentation
> Total fragmentation = 0 %
> File fragmentation = 0 %
> Free space fragmentation = 0 %
>
> File fragmentation
> Total files = 50,615
> Average file size = 198 KB
> Total fragmented files = 32
> Total excess fragments = 97
> Average fragments per file = 1.00
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 50 MB
> Total fragments = 1
>
> Folder fragmentation
> Total folders = 3,902
> Fragmented folders = 2
> Excess folder fragments = 2
>
> Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
> Total MFT size = 59 MB
> MFT record count = 54,571
> Percent MFT in use = 90 %
> Total MFT fragments = 3
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
> 16 4 MB \stub.log
> 16 362 KB \Documents and Settings\Gerry
> Cornell\Local Settings\Temp\bbassistant.log
> 11 485 KB \WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini
> 7 4 MB \WINDOWS\pfirewall.log
>
>
> --
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Brad wrote:
> > I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.
> >
> > It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
> > accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it
> > said it could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the
> > analysis looked just as bad after as it did before it started. It
> > barely did anything...IF anything.
> > Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
> >
> > What can be done ?
> > Thank you for any input.
>
>

Once more I found your instructions devine. My math isn't that great. The
space allocated was 50. I reduced it by half. Is that ok?
--
bug*sly


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

>
> Brad
>
> How much free space on the hard disk?
>
> Select View Report and then select Save As. Now find VolumeC.txt in
> your My Documents Folder and double click on the file to open it. You
> will see a copy of the Report from Disk Defragmenter.You can then copy
> and the data into a further message here. It should look like this:
>
>
> Volume (C
> Volume size = 48.45 GB
> Cluster size = 4 KB
> Used space = 7.92 GB
> Free space = 40.53 GB
> Percent free space = 83 %
>
> Volume fragmentation
> Total fragmentation = 0 %
> File fragmentation = 0 %
> Free space fragmentation = 0 %
>
> File fragmentation
> Total files = 50,615
> Average file size = 198 KB
> Total fragmented files = 32
> Total excess fragments = 97
> Average fragments per file = 1.00
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 50 MB
> Total fragments = 1
>
> Folder fragmentation
> Total folders = 3,902
> Fragmented folders = 2
> Excess folder fragments = 2
>
> Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
> Total MFT size = 59 MB
> MFT record count = 54,571
> Percent MFT in use = 90 %
> Total MFT fragments = 3
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
> 16 4 MB \stub.log
> 16 362 KB \Documents and Settings\Gerry
> Cornell\Local Settings\Temp\bbassistant.log
> 11 485 KB \WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini
> 7 4 MB \WINDOWS\pfirewall.log
>
>
> --
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Brad wrote:
> > I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working properly.
> >
> > It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
> > accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it
> > said it could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of the
> > analysis looked just as bad after as it did before it started. It
> > barely did anything...IF anything.
> > Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
> >
> > What can be done ?
> > Thank you for any input.
>
>

If you are referring to the allocation to System Restore it is an
indicative figure not a precise one. If I needed to think about it I
would opt for 826.


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


bug*sly wrote:
> I am actually responing to the post dated 1/6/07, about the
> amount of free space on the C drive. Ur instructions were very
> good and I followed them to the word. My problem is I couldn't
> get the slider to stay on 700 mb. I could go 625 or 826
> approximately, but not 700 on the dot. Which number is best? Once
> again the instructions were great. Thanks
>
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> How much free space on the hard disk?
>>
>> Select View Report and then select Save As. Now find VolumeC.txt
>> in your My Documents Folder and double click on the file to open
>> it. You will see a copy of the Report from Disk
>> Defragmenter.You can then copy and the data into a further
>> message here. It should look like this:
>>
>>
>> Volume (C
>> Volume size = 48.45 GB
>> Cluster size = 4 KB
>> Used space = 7.92 GB
>> Free space = 40.53 GB
>> Percent free space = 83 %
>>
>> Volume fragmentation
>> Total fragmentation = 0 %
>> File fragmentation = 0 %
>> Free space fragmentation = 0 %
>>
>> File fragmentation
>> Total files = 50,615
>> Average file size = 198 KB
>> Total fragmented files = 32
>> Total excess fragments = 97
>> Average fragments per file = 1.00
>>
>> Pagefile fragmentation
>> Pagefile size = 50 MB
>> Total fragments = 1
>>
>> Folder fragmentation
>> Total folders = 3,902
>> Fragmented folders = 2
>> Excess folder fragments = 2
>>
>> Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
>> Total MFT size = 59 MB
>> MFT record count = 54,571
>> Percent MFT in use = 90 %
>> Total MFT fragments = 3
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
>> 16 4 MB \stub.log
>> 16 362 KB \Documents and Settings\Gerry
>> Cornell\Local Settings\Temp\bbassistant.log
>> 11 485 KB \WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini
>> 7 4 MB \WINDOWS\pfirewall.log
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Brad wrote:
>>> I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working
>>> properly.
>>>
>>> It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
>>> accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it
>>> said it could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of
>>> the analysis looked just as bad after as it did before it
>>> started. It barely did anything...IF anything.
>>> Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
>>>
>>> What can be done ?
>>> Thank you for any input.

What are you referring to now? I do hope you are not interpreting the
illustration as a recommendation for a 50 mb pagefile! On the system
in question there is a much larger pagefile on another volume
(partition). The 50 mb in the illustration is a nominal pagefile
retained on the system partition to handle small memory dumps should
they occur.


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


bug*sly wrote:
> Once more I found your instructions devine. My math isn't that
> great. The space allocated was 50. I reduced it by half. Is that
> ok?
>
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> How much free space on the hard disk?
>>
>> Select View Report and then select Save As. Now find VolumeC.txt
>> in your My Documents Folder and double click on the file to open
>> it. You will see a copy of the Report from Disk
>> Defragmenter.You can then copy and the data into a further
>> message here. It should look like this:
>>
>>
>> Volume (C
>> Volume size = 48.45 GB
>> Cluster size = 4 KB
>> Used space = 7.92 GB
>> Free space = 40.53 GB
>> Percent free space = 83 %
>>
>> Volume fragmentation
>> Total fragmentation = 0 %
>> File fragmentation = 0 %
>> Free space fragmentation = 0 %
>>
>> File fragmentation
>> Total files = 50,615
>> Average file size = 198 KB
>> Total fragmented files = 32
>> Total excess fragments = 97
>> Average fragments per file = 1.00
>>
>> Pagefile fragmentation
>> Pagefile size = 50 MB
>> Total fragments = 1
>>
>> Folder fragmentation
>> Total folders = 3,902
>> Fragmented folders = 2
>> Excess folder fragments = 2
>>
>> Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
>> Total MFT size = 59 MB
>> MFT record count = 54,571
>> Percent MFT in use = 90 %
>> Total MFT fragments = 3
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
>> 16 4 MB \stub.log
>> 16 362 KB \Documents and Settings\Gerry
>> Cornell\Local Settings\Temp\bbassistant.log
>> 11 485 KB \WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini
>> 7 4 MB \WINDOWS\pfirewall.log
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Brad wrote:
>>> I am trying to defrag my hard drive and its not working
>>> properly.
>>>
>>> It has alot of fragments and I ran the defrag program under
>>> accessories/system tools/disk defragmentor. When I returned it
>>> said it could not defrag all parts of the drive. The graph of
>>> the analysis looked just as bad after as it did before it
>>> started. It barely did anything...IF anything.
>>> Running XP pro SP2 on a Athlon 1.4mhz, 512 ram, maxtor 120 gig
>>>
>>> What can be done ?
>>> Thank you for any input.

> How full is the drive? Defrag needs about 20% free space to work.

85% full. It was at 86% when it reported it needs to be 15% free . I
deleted some files and it went to 15% free and then the defrag ran. When it
finished, it had fixed just some of the fragmentation.

> Brad
>
> How much free space on the hard disk?
>
> Select View Report and then select Save As.

Heres the disaster results. ( Perhaps I should delete some more files and
try again ?)


Volume (C
Volume size = 128 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 108 GB
Free space = 20.18 GB
Percent free space = 15 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 22 %
File fragmentation = 44 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 89,289
Average file size = 1 MB
Total fragmented files = 253
Total excess fragments = 42,211
Average fragments per file = 1.47

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 768 MB
Total fragments = 5

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 5,996
Fragmented folders = 5
Excess folder fragments = 12

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 106 MB
MFT record count = 96,182
Percent MFT in use = 88 %
Total MFT fragments = 3