Defrag 60gig HD

[Keene]

Running: W2Kpro, 3physical hard drives (2x30 partitioned
at 10 & 20 each / 1x60 not partitioned) 512RAM, 1.7 ghz
celeron.
Recently installed 60gig HD, nothing loaded on it expect
about 35 gigs of movies, video clips and MP3. It runs
fine, but when I try to defrag I get BSOD. Scan disk,
Check disk work fine but no defrag. The other two drives
all run fine and will defrag. I purchased Diskeeper 8 and
it does the same thing as the windows tool - I get a BSOD:
error message "ntoskrnl.exe"
I would appreciate any and all advice. What if I remove
contents, run F disk and reformat to NTFS?
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Thanks and All the Best!
Keene

 

[Vaughn McMillan - Executive Software]

Since you're seeing the problem with both the native defragger and
Diskeeper, I'd suspect there's some type of error on your disk itself.
Have you tried running CHKDSK /F on this disk volume? Even though it's
not specifically a Diskeeper problem, the Tech Support folks at
Executive Software should be able to help you figure out what's going
wrong. Feel free to drop them a line at (e-mail address removed).

I hope this helps -

Vaughn McMillan
Executive Software

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

Keene,

BSOD crashes can only be caused by a hardware issue or a driver that isn't
working correctly. As both the built-in defragmenter as well as a
commercial defragmenting are exhibiting the same behavior, then what I would
suggest is that you boot into Safe mode and try the built-in defragmenter
from there. Does it still cause a BSOD? If not, then you know that it is a
driver issue and then the issue becomes trying to track down that driver.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

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

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