Bad fragmentation

[Bobby]

I use Norton System Doctor to report my HD's fragmentation and my PC appears
to get rapidly fragmented. Is this normal for Windows XP SR1 under NTFS?

Not only does it get fragmented quickly but it takes ages to defragment it.
I ran Norton's defrag program last night before I went to bed and it was
only 81% complete when I checked it this morning. Is that normal?

Is there something wrong with my PC? I've been having boot problems.

Cheers.

Bobby

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi!Bobby!
If the volume is formatted with the NTFS file system and a file is open
and writable, the defragmentation report might show small files (for
example, 1 KB in size) with a large number of fragments. This is because
when a writable file is open, NTFS attempts to allocate additional space
to help prevent fragmentation as the file grows.

During defragmentation you must disable antivirus auto protect/screen
saver etc.
Untill/unless there is no bad sector in the hard drive [you can easily
check that by chkdsk command] I don't thing there is much problem.So I
suggest you to run chkdsk also.
regards/
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[John Dingley]

It largely depend on the size of your disk, the amount of files and the
amount of fragmented files, the RAM and processor and the percentage of disk
space free - but even in worse case scenarios on 80GB disk 90% full with
some fragmentation only takes a couple of hours at most (AMD 2400+ 1GB RAM)

I think you may have a problem of some sort

 

[Mike P]

I have used norton "scan disk" but currenty I use
diskkeeper, it is extreamly fast and quite good, after
the first defrag with it on my 80g h/d it takes all of 4-
5 minutes to complete

-----Original Message-----
I use Norton System Doctor to report my HD's

fragmentation and my PC appears