Defrag stops, but hard drive keeps thinking

[Guest]

When i run defrag, it gets to about 3%, then stops, but the HDD light on my
tower keeps flashing. After a while of waiting i clicked stop, and the defrag
program said it stopped, i closed defrag, the process was gone, and the
system process wasnt doing aything either, yet the HDD light was still
flashing and every time i opened my computer or did sometihg that accessed my
HDD, it was slow. It only stopped flashing when i rebooted, and i tried to
defrag again, seeing if the reboot fixed it, and it did the same thing again.
Any ideas?

 

[da_test]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:47:02 -0700, "Chops II" <Chops

When i run defrag, it gets to about 3%, then stops, but the HDD light on my
tower keeps flashing. After a while of waiting i clicked stop, and the defrag
program said it stopped, i closed defrag, the process was gone, and the
system process wasnt doing aything either, yet the HDD light was still
flashing and every time i opened my computer or did sometihg that accessed my
HDD, it was slow. It only stopped flashing when i rebooted, and i tried to
defrag again, seeing if the reboot fixed it, and it did the same thing again.
Any ideas?

The next time it happens open the task manager and look for a process
called dfrgfat or dfrgntfs (or similar to that)
If you find it, you may be correct. I've suspected it on my own
machine and I think it's a quirk in this defrag engine.

Once it starts defragging a file, it won't stop until it's finished.
Even if you close the interface !
Dave

 

[Galen]

In Chops II <Chops (e-mail address removed)> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

When i run defrag, it gets to about 3%, then stops, but the HDD light
on my tower keeps flashing. After a while of waiting i clicked stop,
and the defrag program said it stopped, i closed defrag, the process
was gone, and the system process wasnt doing aything either, yet the
HDD light was still flashing and every time i opened my computer or
did sometihg that accessed my HDD, it was slow. It only stopped
flashing when i rebooted, and i tried to defrag again, seeing if the
reboot fixed it, and it did the same thing again. Any ideas?

Start > Run > Type "cmd" without the quotes > Enter button > Type "chkdsk /f
/r" again without the quotes > Hit enter > It will give you an error message
about the drive being locked and ask if you want to schedule it for next
boot > Type "y" without the quotes > Hit enter > Reboot > Get a cup of
coffee

Galen

 

[Guest]

thanks very much, i must have missed that process when i looked for it, it is
there, and i took note of the file it was moving at the time of closure, it
is a very large DVD image... alls well now, just gotta wait for it to finish
now... thanks

 

[Guest]

Thee must be an epidemic of this. I'm trying to defrag an external 80 G HDD
and it hangs at 3%. Shutting defrag down does the same thing you see and
yes, dfrgntfs.exe is running in Task Mgr. Earlier today when I tried this
defrag hung twice and I had to manually power down and reboot. Right the
drive is locked onto something--being USB I can just shut it off and turn it
on and get rid of it. But, defrag says this disk needs defragmenting and I
can't do it!

What's next? Anybody know how to work through this?

 

[Galen]

In benedict1 <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Thee must be an epidemic of this. I'm trying to defrag an external
80 G HDD and it hangs at 3%. Shutting defrag down does the same
thing you see and yes, dfrgntfs.exe is running in Task Mgr. Earlier
today when I tried this defrag hung twice and I had to manually power
down and reboot. Right the drive is locked onto something--being USB
I can just shut it off and turn it on and get rid of it. But, defrag
says this disk needs defragmenting and I can't do it!

Well... Hmm... Turn off you AV scanning and set it to run and then go to
bed... When you get up did it finish?

Galen

 

[da_test]

In benedict1 <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


Well... Hmm... Turn off you AV scanning and set it to run and then go to
bed... When you get up did it finish?

Galen

A couple of approaches.
Temporarily move the big files (above 100 MB) to a different drive
- then defrag
Or download the trial of raxco's Perfectdisk. This program
stops when you tell it to, and you can exclude files if you want.
Dave

 

[Guest]

You wer right. It took about an hour and a half--had to move about 6 G of
files. I also did it to my other external HDD and it was a little less time.
Thanks for the tip.

 

[Galen]

In benedict1 <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

You wer right. It took about an hour and a half--had to move about 6
G of files. I also did it to my other external HDD and it was a
little less time. Thanks for the tip.

Not a problem... Feel free to ask for more help should you find more
troubles later on.

Galen