Defrag reports some files cannot be defrag & nothing listed

[Ziggy]

When I defrag in normal or safe mode. It sem to quit after 10-40% & says
some files cannot be defragged please read the report & no files in there
listed. here is a copy of it.

this is on one of my systems with a 60gig hd

Volume (C
Volume size = 57.26 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 40.67 GB
Free space = 16.59 GB
Percent free space = 28 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 1 %
File fragmentation = 3 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 67,986
Average file size = 683 KB
Total fragmented files = 2
Total excess fragments = 15
Average fragments per file = 1.00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 1.50 GB
Total fragments = 2

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 4,448
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 98 MB
MFT record count = 72,507
Percent MFT in use = 72 %
Total MFT fragments = 3

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
None


if i run it again does the same thing.

is there a bug in the defrag?

thanks

 

[Scott M.]

I think it is completing normally and showing that you still have only 1%
fragmentation, which is common because a running file can't be defragged.
Some resident programs and windows services, plus anything running in your
tray can't be defragged while they are running.

I think you are fine.

 

[Ziggy]

ok thanks

i closed all running things on my tray though.

 

[Al Dykes]

I think it is completing normally and showing that you still have only 1%
fragmentation, which is common because a running file can't be defragged.
Some resident programs and windows services, plus anything running in your
tray can't be defragged while they are running.

I think you are fine.

Are you using the defrag tool included with XP ? It probably can't
defrag several files that have to be open. The commercial defrag
products (I like Raxco) do a 100% defrag doing reboot.

This is academic if your system files are not fragmented in the first
place but if you are trying to rehabilitate a heavily used system
where the swap and MFT files are broken into dozens of parts you need
a boot-time defrag.

Yes. I've seen significant speedups after defrag for laptops that have
had several generations of very complex software packages installed
and re-installed. These tools made MS Office look like Notepad.

IMHO if a user gets a fresh setup, runs MS Office and mail, and never
upgrades, and has at least 50% free space defrag is unnecessary. even.

Repeatedly installing something like Office on a machine that's
low on free disk space will slow the disk down.

 

[Scott M.]

But that's not everything that is running. You can open the Task Manager
and kill any processes that you can. You won't be able to kill all of them
though, because Windows needs some of them running all the time.