Mystery file, can't defrag

[George]

Am running two PC's, both fairly new, WinXP professional, with plenty of RAM
and drive space. When running defrag, one keeps saying at end... "Some
files on this volume could not be defragmented". I'd really like to fix
this. In the View Report at end, only material difference I can see is...

FOR PC#1 THAT WORKS GOOD:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =0
Total excess fragments =0

FOR PC#2 THAT WON'T FULLY DEFRAG:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =1
Total excess fragments =16

PC#2 does have a lot of games on it. And PC#2 View Report won't tell me
which file won't defrag...that is, it's name. So how can we close in on
what program is causing this (might not even need it, might can uninstall
it, might be a leftover temp/installation file)

Not really looking for third party software or other kinds of ways... I'd
think we could correct this somehow with some diligence and plain Windows,
would greatly appreciate suggestions.

Thanks,
George

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Am running two PC's, both fairly new, WinXP

professional, with plenty of RAM

and drive space. When running defrag, one keeps saying at end... "Some
files on this volume could not be defragmented". I'd really like to fix
this. In the View Report at end, only material difference I can see is...

FOR PC#1 THAT WORKS GOOD:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =0
Total excess fragments =0

FOR PC#2 THAT WON'T FULLY DEFRAG:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =1
Total excess fragments =16

PC#2 does have a lot of games on it. And PC#2 View Report won't tell me
which file won't defrag...that is, it's name. So how can we close in on
what program is causing this (might not even need it, might can uninstall
it, might be a leftover temp/installation file)

Not really looking for third party software or other kinds of ways... I'd
think we could correct this somehow with some diligence and plain Windows,
would greatly appreciate suggestions.

Thanks,
George



.
1 file wouldn't worry at all,I've got 4 when it gets up

to 1000 i'll start to worry.

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
Am running two PC's, both fairly new, WinXP professional, with plenty of RAM
and drive space. When running defrag, one keeps saying at end... "Some
files on this volume could not be defragmented". I'd really like to fix
this. In the View Report at end, only material difference I can see is...

FOR PC#1 THAT WORKS GOOD:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =0
Total excess fragments =0

FOR PC#2 THAT WON'T FULLY DEFRAG:
File Fragmentation
Total fragmented files =1
Total excess fragments =16

PC#2 does have a lot of games on it. And PC#2 View Report won't tell me
which file won't defrag...that is, it's name. So how can we close in on
what program is causing this (might not even need it, might can uninstall
it, might be a leftover temp/installation file)

Not really looking for third party software or other kinds of ways... I'd
think we could correct this somehow with some diligence and plain Windows,
would greatly appreciate suggestions.

Thanks,
George

Sounds a little OC to me. One file in 16 pieces and you
would even consider a third-party option? Are you crazy?
Go find something significant to worry about, or have you
already washed your hands 300 times today?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

George

There are certain files which are not defragmented by Disk Defragmenter. Two
more common ones are the pagefile.sys file and the MFT (Master File Table )
which usually resolves to 3 fragments.

As others have said both results are fine.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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