Defrag problems

[Guest]

Hi-
I'm looking for any/all help on this. I am running Windows XP Pro on two
250GB Western Digital SataII drives, set up in a Raid0. Everything was great
until I recently tried to run defrag. I analyzed the volume and was told "you
should defrag this volume". I did, and it ran fine. After doing it, I
analyzed the drive once again and that I was once again told "you should
defrag this volume". The same case occurred even after a complete reboot.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Any and all help is
greatly appreciated!

 

[Paul Smith]

Hi-
I'm looking for any/all help on this. I am running Windows XP Pro on two
250GB Western Digital SataII drives, set up in a Raid0. Everything was
great
until I recently tried to run defrag. I analyzed the volume and was told
"you
should defrag this volume". I did, and it ran fine. After doing it, I
analyzed the drive once again and that I was once again told "you should
defrag this volume". The same case occurred even after a complete reboot.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Any and all help is
greatly appreciated!

Have you tried running it in Safe Mode? If files are in use at the time it
won't be able to defrag them properly.

To boot into Safe Mode press the F8 key just before you'd normally get the
Windows screen when starting the machine up, then choose the option.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

Hi Paul-

Thanks for responding. I always do run defrag in safe mode. Any other ideas?

Rick

 

[Paul Smith]

What files aren't defragmenting?

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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