Defrag fails after 53%???

[Guest]

Hi all,
I hope i am in the right post for this problem as i am new to this.
Whent to defrag today and it only got to 53% and came up with message some
files could not be defragmented view report. I have done a scan disk and
tried again still the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.
Regards

 

[createwindow]

Dear GT4me,

That's normal. You may have some large files that are best left
undefragmented. Only 53% is a bit strange tho....

You should probably check your file system, open a command prompt and
enter chkdsk /f hit enter then y <enter> then reboot.

If you have FAT32 as your disk FS you can also (in a command prompt)
convert to the more robust NTFS. convert C: /fs:ntfs is the
command for that.

Hope that helps.

CreateWindow
http://mymessagetaker.com
The while-you-were-out message program you have been looking for!

 

[Gerry]

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[baynole2]

I had this problem & installed this freebie:

http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10758782.html?tag=lst-0-1

Seems to work well Very quick. NB, you should only use one defragger.

 

[sareth]

The files that could not be defragmented are probably the MFT and paging
file. The windows defraggers does not touch those. AFAIK, the one linked
above (Auslogics) does not defrag the MFT either.

-If- your MFT is fragmented, then it can be defragmented partially
during an online i.e. while windows is running, defrag and completely
during an offline i.e boot-time defrag. But either way, you will
probably require a third party defragmenter such as Diskeeper to defrag
those system files.

You can get a list of the most fragmented files by clicking on 'view
report' in the defragmentation analysis to see if it is indeed the
MFT/paging file that is fragmented.

 

[Gerry]

Sareth

I think you find the MFT file does get defragmented but it is always
ends up in usually 2 but sometimes 3 fragments. These get moved to a new
location every time defragmenting is done. The second fragment is what
gets written when the defragmentation process is completed. An MFT file
gets larger but never reduces in size. Defragmenting the pagefile is
pointless so you gain nothing by using a third party defragmenter. You
will only gain if it defragments free space or you are interested in
automating the process. It is not worth laying out the dosh for a third
party defragmenter! Problem files can be defragmented by using Contig a
small utility from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/contig.mspx

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[GT4me]

Thank to all that replied..
Sorry it took so long to reply i was on holidays.

Sareth,
Great program diskkeeper. I whent into the
configuration and completed the MFT file paging recomended as it was at
approx 74% this took about 20 mins to complete.
And defag was much faster than windows,and it gives so much detail.
many regards, Oh and once again many thanks to all again.