Help with defrag

[her hubby]

I tried to defrag my second hard drive and part way thru it stopped with the
message that I didn't have enough memory and that I should shut down
something and try again. Since I had shut down everything except Explore and
Sys tray, I think I just have too many files of my wife's sewing, quilting,
embroidery etc. Once before when this happened I just deleted some of the
files, defragged, and then reloaded the files.
My problem is that my C drive went from 5g to 19g and I cannot find where
defrag put the extra 14g. I didn't even realize that it copied my D drive to
my C drive during the defrag.
Question is, how do I find what defrag did to my C drive while trying to
defrag my D drive and how do I get rid of it?
Thanks for your help.
Phil

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
I tried to defrag my second hard drive and part way thru it stopped with the
message that I didn't have enough memory and that I should shut down
something and try again. Since I had shut down everything except Explore and
Sys tray, I think I just have too many files of my wife's sewing, quilting,
embroidery etc. Once before when this happened I just deleted some of the
files, defragged, and then reloaded the files.
My problem is that my C drive went from 5g to 19g and I cannot find where
defrag put the extra 14g. I didn't even realize that it copied my D drive to
my C drive during the defrag.
Question is, how do I find what defrag did to my C drive while trying to
defrag my D drive and how do I get rid of it?
Thanks for your help.
Phil

Frankly, your post makes no sense whatsoever, and it
would probably be easier to just get rid of your wife
and her sewing files at this point.

 

[Dennis Lazo]

hi,

defrag does not transfer files from one drive to another, but would rather
arrange the actual position of the data on any specific drive such that all
files therein would unfragmented, ie, in one continuous location.

defrag does not try to eat disk space during the process as well, which
means that if you started with 5gigs free, then you still end with 5gigs
free after the defragmentation process.

i hope this helps.

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Dennis Lazo

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[Colin Barnhorst]

I don't know your setup, but shutting down programs does not make much more
space available on the hard drive. Shutting down programs gives the
defragger program more memory to work with. Regardless, the defragger will
make a lot of use of the swap file on the hard drive. A program that I have
found will defrag any hard drive no matter the problems is Diskeeper from
Executive Software. You can download a trial version at
http://www.execsoft.com/profile/submit-select.aspx?a=l&PId=90. Give it a
try.

If you are down to the last 10% or so of available space on your hard drive,
then you need to either archive some files off of the drive or (better)
consider a second hard drive for data. There are many options and it does
not have to go inside the machine.

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
I don't know your setup, but shutting down programs does not make much more
space available on the hard drive. Shutting down programs gives the
defragger program more memory to work with. Regardless, the defragger will
make a lot of use of the swap file on the hard drive. A program that I have
found will defrag any hard drive no matter the problems is Diskeeper from
Executive Software. You can download a trial version at
http://www.execsoft.com/profile/submit-select.aspx? a=l&PId=90. Give it a
try.

If you are down to the last 10% or so of available space on your hard drive,
then you need to either archive some files off of the drive or (better)
consider a second hard drive for data. There are many options and it does
not have to go inside the machine.

Defragging is a waste of time and energy unless there are
performance problems that can be definitively linked to
file fragmentation. Purchase of a third-party defragging
application is, in most cases, a waste of money.

 

[her hubby]

That answered my question as to what affect defragging D would have on C. I
solved my problem by deleting some data and then trying again.
Thanks for responding to my question.
Phil

 

[her hubby]

Thanks for your help. I solved my problem by deleting some of the data and
trying again.I will have to look into Diskeeper from Executive Software.
Thanks
Phil