Another Defrag Issue

[Guest]

On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and drive
D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes and
showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about a
minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and drive
D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes and
showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about a
minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?

You can temporyarily move some of the folders from one drive to the other.
Then defrag the drive that now has more freespace.
When done, move the folders back.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Guest]

You can temporyarily move some of the folders from one drive to the other.
Then defrag the drive that now has more freespace.
When done, move the folders back.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

I tried that. I got drive C: to go from 30% free space to 37%. Still the
same result.

 

[Leythos]

On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and drive
D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes and
showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about a
minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?

I find that DiskKeeper works better than any other tool on the market,
server or workstation, it wins hands down. DK will allow off-line
defrag, move folders and other beneficial things. The version that comes
with Windows is very limited.

 

[Michael D. Ober]

Get a list of the files that won't defrag. I suspect they are all under one
account. To fix this, you need to create a new local admin account and
defrag from that account. No defragger can defragment the currently logged
user's hive files.

BTW, The windows defragger is Diskeeper "Really" Lite.

Mike Ober.