WinXP Defrag grabbing resources

[Guest]

My P4 WinXP-Pro/SP1 (1gB RAM, 3x36G SCSI 160 HD) machine slowed to a crawl. Task Manager showed 2 (!) instances of dfrgntfs.exe that had grabbed 97-98% of system resources between them (system idle was 0%), even though I had not started Defrag (!). Task Manager could NOT halt either instance

I rebooted, and in safe mode went to c:\windows\system32 and at the DOS prompt renamed dfrgntfs.exe to dfrgntfs.e~e and then resbooted

I fired up Task Manager -- System Idle was 98%. I then started Defrag (it obviously loaded from c:\windows\system32\dllcache\) and watched in Task Manager. At first dfrgntfs.exe used 3-4% system resources, but after about 1 minute into defragging c:\ (and with the completion bar showing 1%), the system resources for dfrgntsf.exe shot up to 98% and the system locked up -- no response even in Task Manager

Any thoughts (apart from a corrupt dfrgntfs.exe)? Anybody know of a virus that calls itself dfrgntfs.exe? Or is this just a case of delete and reload from the CD?

 

[MAP]

-----Original Message-----
My P4 WinXP-Pro/SP1 (1gB RAM, 3x36G SCSI 160 HD) machine

slowed to a crawl. Task Manager showed 2 (!) instances of
dfrgntfs.exe that had grabbed 97-98% of system resources
between them (system idle was 0%), even though I had not
started Defrag (!). Task Manager could NOT halt either
instance.

I rebooted, and in safe mode went to c:\windows\system32

and at the DOS prompt renamed dfrgntfs.exe to
dfrgntfs.e~e and then resbooted.

I fired up Task Manager -- System Idle was 98%. I then

started Defrag (it obviously loaded from
c:\windows\system32\dllcache\) and watched in Task
Manager. At first dfrgntfs.exe used 3-4% system
resources, but after about 1 minute into defragging c:\
(and with the completion bar showing 1%), the system
resources for dfrgntsf.exe shot up to 98% and the system
locked up -- no response even in Task Manager.

Any thoughts (apart from a corrupt dfrgntfs.exe)?

Anybody know of a virus that calls itself ? Or is this
just a case of delete and reload from the CD?

.
Defrag at first "reads" a portion of your HD and the

Xfers files of a program into in one place, that would
require more resourses to do,which would explain the
spike in cpu.
I purchased "Diskeeper" some time back and I never have
to even think about defraging.
www.diskeeper.com

 

[Guest]

----- MAP wrote: ----

Defrag at first "reads" a portion of your HD and the

Xfers files of a program into in one place, that would
require more resourses to do,which would explain the
spike in cpu
I purchased "Diskeeper" some time back and I never have
to even think about defraging. www.diskeeper.com

I'm a skeptic, but I downloaded the Trial Version and ran it -- it gagged at 40% defragged, System Resources were 98%..

Looked at the options, then ran the chkdsk + "quick" defrag @ manual reboot option and after 20 minutes the process completed. I then reconfigured, rebooted, ran a manual "full" defrag and after 15 minutes it was done -- system resources never went much over 12% -- I'm impressed, athough you do hafta rtfm <g>

I'll send them the $

 

[nkjg]

EEP!!!

Before you send them the money, check out Raxco's
PerfectDisk. It's got all the capabilities of Diskeeper,
plus many more. Check it out at www.raxco.com. I tried
Diskeeper, but I'll stick with my PerfectDisk.

Hope this helps,

Nick
(e-mail address removed)

-----Original Message-----

----- MAP wrote: -----
the
Xfers files of a program into in one place, that would
require more resourses to do,which would explain the
spike in cpu.
I purchased "Diskeeper" some time back and I never have
to even think about defraging. www.diskeeper.com

I'm a skeptic, but I downloaded the Trial Version and

ran it -- it gagged at 40% defragged, System Resources
were 98%...

Looked at the options, then ran the chkdsk + "quick"

defrag @ manual reboot option and after 20 minutes the
process completed. I then reconfigured, rebooted, ran a
manual "full" defrag and after 15 minutes it was done --
system resources never went much over 12% -- I'm