Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.

Any Suggestions?

Lee

There are many factors affecting the effectivenes of defragmentation process: amount of free space and total partition size, average size of a fragmented file on that partition, free space fragmentation (i.e. average size of a free space block) and some others. For example, if you have a fragmented 700 megabyte file and free space on that partition is heavily fragmented, the engine may not find a place for defragmentation temporary work data and therefore will be unable to defragment the partition completely.

This is also software-dependent, of course, as various software uses various algorithms. Cannot recommend anything specific here though - was always fine with built-in defragmenter.

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"Lee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:041301c3b696$354b9000$(E-Mail Removed)...
Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.

Any Suggestions?

Lee

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:31:15 -0800, "Lee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
>(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
>the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.
>
>Any Suggestions?
>
Sysinternals has Contig to make contiguous files. It also has Pagedefrag which defrags
other M$ stuff. Might work better for ya...

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"Lee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:041301c3b696$354b9000$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
> (1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
> the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.
>
> Any Suggestions?
>
> Lee