defrag: drive remains 45% fragmented

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I defrag my C: drive with Windows or with Norton. No matter what I do,
it remains about 45% fragmented.

-- Dell 4100 laptop, P3-1000, 640mb RAM, XP Home
-- start in safe mode
-- chkdsk done
-- 19% free

It got so fragmented during a period when my drive was too full to
defragment, I believe. I tried a shareware called TuneXP that does a bit
of its own defragging, but I rolled back all changes there to the defaults.

For an earlier version of Windows, someone suggested eliminating the
swap file (pagefile) altogether while defragging, then recreating it
afterward. Would that be of any value in XP?

Thanks for any ideas anyone has.

-- Greg
 
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I defrag my C: drive with Windows or with Norton. No matter what I do,
it remains about 45% fragmented.

-- Dell 4100 laptop, P3-1000, 640mb RAM, XP Home
-- start in safe mode
-- chkdsk done
-- 19% free

It got so fragmented during a period when my drive was too full to
defragment, I believe. I tried a shareware called TuneXP that does a bit
of its own defragging, but I rolled back all changes there to the defaults.

For an earlier version of Windows, someone suggested eliminating the
swap file (pagefile) altogether while defragging, then recreating it
afterward. Would that be of any value in XP?

Thanks for any ideas anyone has.

-- Greg
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Run the disk cleanup tool first to remove the temp files
Click to expand...
and so on. Also a good deal of drive space can be re-
gained by turning off the system restore in system
properites, then do a reboot and it removes all but the
most recent restore point. Also there is a better disk
defragmenter tool from Executive Software called
Diskeeper and is found here;
http://consumer.execsoft.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?RId=1
Your PC may need a new larger size hard drive as well.
 
Try booting into Safe Mode and defragmenting from there. If that doesn't
work, it may be time to look at a 3rd party defragmenter.

- 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.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.
 
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