Defrag problem

[Al]

I have a Toshiba laptop running Windows 2000. It has a 6
gig hard drive that is partioned into 2 drives. The C
drive is set a 2 gigs and contians the system files. The
D drive is set at 4 gigs and contain the user files.

My problem is that the C drive has many fragmented files,
and when I try to run the defrag program the system tells
me I only have 8% free space and I need 15% free space for
the defrag program to run.

Is there any way that I can get the program to use part of
drive D for the swap area so that the defrag program will
run?

 

[Pat [MSFT]]

Nope. The defrag app uses the volume that is being defragged. You may be
able to clean up some space and then re-run it. You may also look at
decreasing the paging file temporarily. Finally, there are other defrag
apps out that allow for single file/single directory defragmentation that do
not have the space limitation.


Pat