One Care Defrag

[Mac]

The One Care defrag never completes the defrag. it says that the C drive is
too fragmented and has been marked for defragmenting later, but never
completes it and gives the same message....

Why is that?, how can I set the defragmenting tool to finish no matter what?

Thanks,
mac

 

[Greg]

I experianced the same problem; my solution was to UNINSTALL onecare,
REBOOT, perform system maintenance, then REINSTALL onecare.

 

[John Rushton]

Why not just do it manually from the system management tools then when one
care does it's defrag there wouldn't be so much for it to do??

It's just running out of time to finish the job.

 

[Hank Arnold (MVP)]

Or just use a dedicated third party defrag tool. There are many in the
market. Personally, I use Diskeeper and it allows me to autodefrag,
schedule a defrag or manually defrag as I like. Better control and
performance than the windows defraggers. It starts when I want it to,
and stops when I want it to!

I agree about DiskKeeper. I used it a long time ago (V8?) and it was
great. The automatic defrag, though, was a drag on the system
performance whenever it kicked off ( I did have it set to minimize the
impact). I just installed 2007 (NSF License for MVP's) a couple of weeks
ago and they seem to have solved that problem. The interface is very
smartly done.... It's a "keeper".... ;-)

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

 

[StephenB]

The One Care defrag never completes the defrag. it says that the C drive is
too fragmented and has been marked for defragmenting later, but never
completes it and gives the same message....

Why is that?, how can I set the defragmenting tool to finish no matter what?

Thanks,
mac

The Defrag is OneCare is timed. It will stop after time is up and run again the
next time a Tune-up is performed. If you have lots of fragmented files on a
large drive, it will likely never "complete" under OneCare if you only do
Tune-up monthly, so running Defrag manually or using a 3rd party program will do
better. Don't worry about the message from OneCare in the Tune-up report about
Defrag in any event.
-steve

 

[Communikator]

Well, the Vista system's drive IS too fragmented, indeed, even after the
(defragmentation ???) that runs in the background. Take a look at it with
some visually descriptive defrag tool, just after a scheduled
defragmentation has been finished.
I see no use for the automatic Vista defragger other than making me buy new
hdd's, because my current ones are being abused by this service, above all
without letting me know what's going on, visually, during the background
defragmentation.

 

[Johnny]

Well, the Vista system's drive IS too fragmented, indeed, even after the
(defragmentation ???) that runs in the background. Take a look at it
with some visually descriptive defrag tool, just after a scheduled
defragmentation has been finished.
I see no use for the automatic Vista defragger other than making me buy
new hdd's, because my current ones are being abused by this service,
above all without letting me know what's going on, visually, during the
background defragmentation.

C,

I thought that the defrag tool that comes with Vista will defragment
files but not defrag free space. That is why a visually descriptive
tool reports the drive as still being fragmented becuase it has the
ability to defrag more of the drive then Vista. Some of them defrag the
MBR, Swap file, and Partition data.