After defragmenting, analysis shows I still should defragment.

[Guest]

The title sums it up. I clicked on " analyze" after defragmenting the C
drive, and according to the message I still needed to defragment the volume.
Can anyone please tell me why this is happening?

 

[Jose Gallardo]

Try PerfectDisk:

http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Try PerfectDisk:

http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm

--
Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

I know that many people find PerfectDisk to work well, but that was not the
case for me; it seriously crashed my not-exotic ThinkPad running XP Pro each
of the several times I tried it. I did not find it in any way usable and
removed it rather than risk data loss.

To the OP, how much free space is available on the drive? XP Defrag needs
at least 15%.

Try removing all temporary files and temporary internet files first (this
will prevent them from having to be defragmented, making the process
faster). ccleaner works very well for this, but must be run for each
account. Don't just rely on the MS cleanup tools. Reduce the size of the
Internet Explorer Cache; it's often well over a gigabyte but can be reduced
to something more reasonable.. say 25 meg or so. Clear it regularly. Get
to this setting in IE with Tools, Intenet Options, General, Temporary
Intenet Files, Settings. You can also shift the folder to another drive
with more space.

One approach to removing temporary intenet files in one pass is to use a
Search utility, like Agent Ransack (www.agentransack.com), search the
driive for content.ie5, and delete everything it finds. Empty the recycle
bin. These folders, which contain the actual Temporary Internet Files
folders, will be silently rebuilt as needed. Then, again use Ransack to
search all drives for *.tmp, and delete what it finds. Clear the recycle
bin, and then defragment.

At the end, examine the defragmentation report to see what exactly is
being left behind as not-defragmented.

HTH
-pk

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

There are several 3rd party programs that have drivers that are known to
crash Windows when PerfectDisk is run on the system.

You mention an IBM ThinkPad. One of the known culprits is a driver
associated with IBM's Rescue and Recovery Software (driver is called
ibmfilter.sys). If you are running the latest version of Rescue and
Recovery, the driver has been fixed and will no longer crash Windows. Check
the version of ibmfilter.sys. If it is earlier that 3.1.0.0, then you have
the buggy driver.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

There are several 3rd party programs that have drivers that are known to
crash Windows when PerfectDisk is run on the system.

You mention an IBM ThinkPad. One of the known culprits is a driver
associated with IBM's Rescue and Recovery Software (driver is called
ibmfilter.sys). If you are running the latest version of Rescue and
Recovery, the driver has been fixed and will no longer crash Windows. Check
the version of ibmfilter.sys. If it is earlier that 3.1.0.0, then you have
the buggy driver.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support

department.

Thanks for the reply. I don't run any of that on the Thinkpad, and
ibmfilter.* is not present on it.

-pk