cannot degragment!! my c drive is completely

[bob]

defragmented and the program works fine but when it finishes it looks the
same on the as the original analysis. Then I look at the report and it list
a lot of files that can't be drfragmented. The only thing I can think of is
that this pc was once on MSexchange (the reason I mention it is that the
outlook pst which is 1.8 gigs, shows 36000 fragments and it is located in
the c/exchange folder) Anyway, what do I do??? how can I get the drive to
defrag?

 

[David H. Lipman]

| defragmented and the program works fine but when it finishes it looks the
| same on the as the original analysis. Then I look at the report and it list
| a lot of files that can't be drfragmented. The only thing I can think of is
| that this pc was once on MSexchange (the reason I mention it is that the
| outlook pst which is 1.8 gigs, shows 36000 fragments and it is located in
| the c/exchange folder) Anyway, what do I do??? how can I get the drive to
| defrag?
|

Have you tried it in Safe Mode ?

 

[Neko-]

PST files have a limit of 2Gb. Above that there are no garuantees
they'll still work fine!! I've has PST's go belly up on me that way.
Unrecoverable.

You might want to clean out the PST (beware of the deleted items
folder, if it's not set to remove those mails, it's gonna contain a
HELL of a lot of mails if you never emptied it). Try compressing the
PST after clearing everything unneeded from it (open the properties
for the PST in your mail program, and look for the Compress button),
and/or run scanpst on it (should be installed on the PC by default,
just search for scanpst.exe on the drive).

As for defrag. It requires atleast 15% free space to operate normally.
You might want to try removing all backup installs made when updates
from M$ get installed (hidden folders in c:\winnt), the temp files
(check c:\winnt\temp and c:\documents and settings\<profilename>\local
settings\temp and c:\documents and settings\<profilename>\local
settings\temporary internet files).

Lastly, you might want to kill off any txt/log/wav file you do not
need. Beware... I had a prog (think it was WinZip) die on me when
removing one of those files. It needed that to operate correctly.

 

[Neko-]

P.S. If it was once an exchange server but not anymore... why not
remove Exchange completely? Besides... If I recall correctly (but I'm
not sure on that, so anyone feeling like it, correct me on this)
Exchange uses a pub.edb and a priv.edb file for storage... The PST
file isn't used by Exchange itself anyways.

 

[bob]

okay , so I tried to do it in safe mode and I got the same result- basically
no defrag. (ps, when the analysis is done, it shows that I have 38% free
space but on the analysis there is no white space, aka there is no free
space shown it is almost all red.)

anyway, how do I take it off exchange???