Windows XP defragmentation

[Guest]

Just recently my laptop has not been defragmenting my hard drive fully. I
tried to restore to a point I know that worked but nothing has changed. The
message I get is: "Some files on this volume could not be defragmented.
Please check the defragmentation report for the list of these files." A
check of the report shows NO files. I have tried to defragment from the
command line, have made sure that all virus program and firewalls are off,
defragmented from safe mode and nothing seems to work to defragment beyond
14% to 50% of the hard drive. Please help. Thanks.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Perform a Disk Cleanup, reboot into Safe Mode,
then defrag.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.mspx

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| Just recently my laptop has not been defragmenting my hard drive fully. I
| tried to restore to a point I know that worked but nothing has changed. The
| message I get is: "Some files on this volume could not be defragmented.
| Please check the defragmentation report for the list of these files." A
| check of the report shows NO files. I have tried to defragment from the
| command line, have made sure that all virus program and firewalls are off,
| defragmented from safe mode and nothing seems to work to defragment beyond
| 14% to 50% of the hard drive. Please help. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Try Diskeeper. I'm not sure if there's a demo/trial version but if it can be
defragmented (MFT, pagefile, directory consolidation) Diskeeper will do it.

 

[Guest]

I looked in: Site pointforum,Community center,General chat,Defragging doesn't
work.
several folks were suggesting things and it worked for this one person.they
are:

Run Scan Disk..If that don't work do the next thing
ctrl+alt+delete llok in task manager and shut down all running programs
except explorer and system tray...If that don't work
turn off screen savers if that don't work
turn off Mcafee, it uses too much cpu
fellow said he didn't know what happened but it worked?

 

[Guest]

i went to sitepoint forum,community center,general chat,defragging doesn't
work...
fellows there said this:
run scan disk then defrag,if it don't work do this
ctrl+alt+delete--end all tasks but explore and system tray,if that don't work
turn off screen savers if that don't work
turn off Mcafee(uses to much cpu)
fellow said it worked?????

 

[Rock]

I looked in: Site pointforum,Community center,General chat,Defragging doesn't
work.
several folks were suggesting things and it worked for this one person.they
are:

Run Scan Disk..If that don't work do the next thing
ctrl+alt+delete llok in task manager and shut down all running programs
except explorer and system tray...If that don't work
turn off screen savers if that don't work
turn off Mcafee, it uses too much cpu
fellow said he didn't know what happened but it worked?

There is no scandisk in XP.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Just recently my laptop has not been defragmenting my hard drive fully. I
tried to restore to a point I know that worked but nothing has changed. The
message I get is: "Some files on this volume could not be defragmented.
Please check the defragmentation report for the list of these files." A
check of the report shows NO files.

There are a few files that the defrag will not work on because they are
in use right from the start. Most notably the Page file. There is
really no great need to defrag that as the paging system has all the
information on its layout to hand in memory, and is going to clusters on
it at random (or nearly so)