Disk Defrag

[Guest]

Hello im a Windows Xp Home user and have recently tried to defragment my
computer... I started it up and let it do its job; as soon as it was done i
looked at it and there were still free space between contiguous files. Its as
if defrag only completed part of its job. Does anyone know what is wrong or
have any information on the subject? Thankx in advance.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Before Using the Disk Defragmentation Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkd_tro_oegv.asp

Best practices
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...all/proddocs/en-us/defrag_best_practices.mspx

Defragmenting Volumes by Using the Defrag Command
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_viho.asp

Disk Defragmenter
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_asgk.asp

Files That You Cannot Defragment
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldtg.asp

How to Automate Disk Defragmenter Using Task Scheduler Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555098

How to Defragment Your Disk Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314848

How to Provide Event Logging for the Disk Defragmenter Utility with Windows
Script Host
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294743

Running the Disk Defragmenter Snap-in
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_grov.asp

Tips for Using the Disk Defragmentation Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ckyh.asp

Why volumes become fragmented
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...all/proddocs/en-us/defrag_why_fragmented.mspx

Also see these topics in Help and Support...

Analysis and defragmentation displays and reports

Defrag

To analyze a volume

To defragment a volume

Troubleshooting

Using Disk Defragmenter

Why files are not moved to some regions of NTFS-formatted volumes