Defragmenter

[Guest]

When I finished defraging my C Drive, I received a message saying “Some files
on this volume could not be defragmented. Please check the defragmentation
report for the list of these files.â€
I also noticed a red line (Fragmented File) in the Defragmenter. In the
Defragmentation Report under File fragmentation, Total excess fragments
equaled 4. My question is this: Is there a way to find out what file is
fragmented, and unfragment it, or if necessary, get rid of it? Thank you.

GusGus

 

[JS]

Some files are 'in use' and XP defrag tool can't handle these types of
files.
One tool that will help is: PageDefrag v2.32
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

Note that my pagefile is a fixed size on another drive, so PageDefrag may or
may not help with the pagefile on your PC, but it will with the others file
types that it defrags.

JS

 

[Unknown]

Just ignore that. Open files, files in use etc. cannot be defragged.

 

[Gerry]

Unless the file not defragmented is listed I would ignore the message.

Invariably the MFT (Master File Table) is in 2 fragments ( I have seen
3). I am not sure about this but another example may be the pagefile.
The Disk Defragmenter Report says how many fragments there are for the
Master File Table and the Pagefile. My pagefile is contiguous so it is
recorded as a single fragment but many pagefiles are not contiguous.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Guest]

Yes, I have the same problem. I really cannot ignore the message bc the issue
with my HD remains: I cannot defrag it. How can this be fixed?

Kindly,
Mike

 

[Gerry]

Charles

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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[Guest]

Will do, Gerry. Coming up shortly.
Charles

Charles

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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