Defragmenting Disk Doesn't Seem To Actually Defrag

[Lee]

Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.

Any Suggestions?

Lee

 

[Dmitry Korolyov [MVP]]

There are many factors affecting the effectivenes of defragmentation process: amount of free space and total partition size, average size of a fragmented file on that partition, free space fragmentation (i.e. average size of a free space block) and some others. For example, if you have a fragmented 700 megabyte file and free space on that partition is heavily fragmented, the engine may not find a place for defragmentation temporary work data and therefore will be unable to defragment the partition completely.

This is also software-dependent, of course, as various software uses various algorithms. Cannot recommend anything specific here though - was always fine with built-in defragmenter.

--
Dmitry Korolyov [[email protected]]
MVP: Windows Server - Active Directory


Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.

Any Suggestions?

Lee

 

[Overlord]

Running W2K SvcPk4, on a Compaq Presario wuth 4G drive
(1.5 G free space), The system can't seem to defragment
the drive no matter how many times I run Defrag.

Any Suggestions?

Sysinternals has Contig to make contiguous files. It also has Pagedefrag which defrags
other M$ stuff. Might work better for ya...

~~~~~~
Bait for spammers:
root@localhost
postmaster@localhost
admin@localhost
abuse@localhost
postmaster@[127.0.0.1]
(e-mail address removed)
~~~~~~
Remove "spamless" to email me.

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

FATx or NTFS?

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.