defragment question

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I have an XP SP2 PC that has a 10 GB HDD. It only has about 1.38 GB of free
space remaining on it after I do a disk cleanup. The drive needs to be
defragmented, but when I run defragment, it goes thru and says that the
defragment is complete, but the graph appears to have remained unchanged
(almost all red!) and it gives me a log full of files that were not able to
be defragmented. Is there a certain amount of free space that is needed to
defragment this drive, and why are so many files saying that they cannot be
defragmented? Thanks for any suggestions!

Jeff

 

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I have an XP SP2 PC that has a 10 GB HDD. It only has about 1.38 GB
of free space remaining on it after I do a disk cleanup. The drive
needs to be defragmented, but when I run defragment, it goes thru and
says that the defragment is complete, but the graph appears to have
remained unchanged (almost all red!) and it gives me a log full of
files that were not able to be defragmented. Is there a certain
amount of free space that is needed to defragment this drive, and why
are so many files saying that they cannot be defragmented? Thanks
for any suggestions!

Jeff

Yes. 15%. Check Help; it's all there. You barely have room for windows to
run after it creates a couple of temp files. You're in bad need of a bigger
drive.