OK. I recently had a similar problem. Since no one here was able to
offer advice I found a way around it, which I posted here. just in
case you no longer have that thread on your server, I will paste my
problem detail, and the solution I came up with. Perhaps it will work
for you;
Good luck. Let me know if this helps.
First, my original post, followed by my work-around. It worked
completely.
Defrag will not defragment a large number of files.
I've been having some slow performance for a few days, so decided to
defrag. After analysis, the drive is 23% defragmented. It's never been
that high. I ran defrag. It reported that a number of files could not
be defragmented. Fragmentation stayed high (19%)
I saved the report so I could look at the files..
With one exception, all the files listed are MPG files, which I
created, ripped from DVDs and converted to MPG. They represent 29 gig
on an 80 gig drive!
They are listed as having several hundred to several thousand
fragments.
The one exception is a .db file in Documents and Settings, for ACDC.
That db file is LARGER than the images it supposedly represents, and
has more parts than there are images, again several thousand parts.
I thought perhaps changing the properties by turning off "read only"
would take care ot it. Ran defrag again. Did not work. Still at 19%.
All of the same files are listed.
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Now my solution
If anyone is interested, or has/had a similar problem...
I figured out a workaround to fix this. It may be micky-mouse, but it
worked.
Assuming that if I copied a fragmented file to another physical
medium, Windows would have to assemble and sort the thousands of
fragments, I copied each file individually to an external drive, I
then deleted the originals, re-copied one at a time to the original
folder, and ran defrag. Result= 2% fragmentation.
Don't know what could have cause such severe fragmentation, and if
anybody out there has any idea, I would appreciate your feedback.