Defrag Malfunctioning on XP Pro

[Jerry]

Used defrag on drive & witnessed it use up over 60G of a
80G hard drive until a 0% space was left. Now a "Low Disk
space" warning keeps poping up. Will not refrag the drive
again or undo. Please help, all suggestions welcome.

[Gerry Cornell]

Jerry

Have you tried running Disk Cleanup?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Jerry" > wrote in message =
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> Used defrag on drive & witnessed it use up over 60G of a=20
> 80G hard drive until a 0% space was left. Now a "Low Disk=20
> space" warning keeps poping up. Will not refrag the drive=20
> again or undo. Please help, all suggestions welcome.

[Jim Macklin]

You need to have 15% free space for defrag to run, If disk
clean up doesn't get you that far, remove some programs or
delete data files (back them up as needed). When you have
15% or more, defrag and reinstall your programs as needed.

You need 15% of 80 or 12 GB free.

Have you considered a second or bigger hard drive?

A DVD+RW will archive a lot of movies and data.


"Gerry Cornell" > wrote in message
...
Jerry

Have you tried running Disk Cleanup?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Jerry" > wrote in message
...
> Used defrag on drive & witnessed it use up over 60G of a
> 80G hard drive until a 0% space was left. Now a "Low Disk
> space" warning keeps poping up. Will not refrag the drive
> again or undo. Please help, all suggestions welcome.

[Amethyst]

Jim Macklin wrote:
> You need to have 15% free space for defrag to run, If disk
> clean up doesn't get you that far, remove some programs or
> delete data files (back them up as needed). When you have
> 15% or more, defrag and reinstall your programs as needed.
>
> You need 15% of 80 or 12 GB free.

Hate to be a pedant, Jim, but, as an 80GB drive is only 'really' 74GB, then
15% is 11.1GB. Of course, as obviously bigger, it makes no odds, but I'm a
pedant! ;o)

Cass
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[Jim Macklin]

I know, I know, but the point is you need a goodly chunk of
free space so defrag can move the files around as it decides
where to put the files.

Gee, I'm amazed, I wasn't called any bad names or anything.

When I was teaching flying I had some simple rules...
KISS, WAG, SWAG, and PDC
Keep it simple stupid, wild ass guess, scientific wild ass
guess and pretty damn close.
A scientific wild ass guess is a guess based on some unknown
amount of information.
A wild ass guess has nothing behind it.
Pretty damn close is a useful, if not exact solution. If
I'm moving 300 mph and need to know when I'll be somewhere,
I could calculate it to the millisecond, if I knew the exact
distance and the exact speed and all variables remain
constant. The truth is by the time the answer is calculated
I'd be well past the position.
Either 15% of 80 or 74 results in plenty of "free space."


"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > You need to have 15% free space for defrag to run, If
disk
| > clean up doesn't get you that far, remove some programs
or
| > delete data files (back them up as needed). When you
have
| > 15% or more, defrag and reinstall your programs as
needed.
| >
| > You need 15% of 80 or 12 GB free.
|
| Hate to be a pedant, Jim, but, as an 80GB drive is only
'really' 74GB, then
| 15% is 11.1GB. Of course, as obviously bigger, it makes no
odds, but I'm a
| pedant! ;o)
|
| Cass
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[Amethyst]

Jim Macklin wrote:
> I know, I know, but the point is you need a goodly chunk of
> free space so defrag can move the files around as it decides
> where to put the files.
>
> Gee, I'm amazed, I wasn't called any bad names or anything.
>
> When I was teaching flying I had some simple rules...
> KISS, WAG, SWAG, and PDC
> Keep it simple stupid, wild ass guess, scientific wild ass
> guess and pretty damn close.
> A scientific wild ass guess is a guess based on some unknown
> amount of information.
> A wild ass guess has nothing behind it.
> Pretty damn close is a useful, if not exact solution. If
> I'm moving 300 mph and need to know when I'll be somewhere,
> I could calculate it to the millisecond, if I knew the exact
> distance and the exact speed and all variables remain
> constant. The truth is by the time the answer is calculated
> I'd be well past the position.
> Either 15% of 80 or 74 results in plenty of "free space."


And why would I - you're not Silly You are you? I reserve my insults for
those who deserve them - I don't have an infinite supply! ;o)



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"Amethyst" > wrote in message =
...
> Jim Macklin wrote:
> > You need to have 15% free space for defrag to run, If disk
> > clean up doesn't get you that far, remove some programs or
> > delete data files (back them up as needed). When you have
> > 15% or more, defrag and reinstall your programs as needed.
> >
> > You need 15% of 80 or 12 GB free.
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> Hate to be a pedant, Jim, but, as an 80GB drive is only 'really' 74GB, =
then
> 15% is 11.1GB. Of course, as obviously bigger, it makes no odds, but =
I'm a
> pedant! ;o)

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:16:50 -0700, "Jerry" > wrote:

>Used defrag on drive & witnessed it use up over 60G of a
>80G hard drive until a 0% space was left. Now a "Low Disk
>space" warning keeps poping up. Will not refrag the drive
>again or undo. Please help, all suggestions welco

I don't use the defrag that comes bundled with WinXP. I use Diskkeeper
which is fast; defrags my two HD within a few minutes. Never had your
problem pop up!

[Jim Macklin]

quiet snicker! I really feel sorry for Silly, if he just
acted a little bit pleasant he would be worth learn from,
but he has the personality of a 12 year old child that just
learned to cuss without knowing what the words mean, except
he does know and rather than try to be useful, he takes an
error by anyone as an attack on the whole world of computer.
It's a little like and the opposite of that Unibomber, a
math geek who had one skill, he could do math. And then the
computer came along and rather than accepting it as an aid
to more math, he saw it as an attack on his only "live" so
he had to destroy those who worked with computers. *This is
my theory and I could be wrong.
Just don't open any letters or packages from Silly.


"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > I know, I know, but the point is you need a goodly chunk
of
| > free space so defrag can move the files around as it
decides
| > where to put the files.
| >
| > Gee, I'm amazed, I wasn't called any bad names or
anything.
| >
| > When I was teaching flying I had some simple rules...
| > KISS, WAG, SWAG, and PDC
| > Keep it simple stupid, wild ass guess, scientific wild
ass
| > guess and pretty damn close.
| > A scientific wild ass guess is a guess based on some
unknown
| > amount of information.
| > A wild ass guess has nothing behind it.
| > Pretty damn close is a useful, if not exact solution.
If
| > I'm moving 300 mph and need to know when I'll be
somewhere,
| > I could calculate it to the millisecond, if I knew the
exact
| > distance and the exact speed and all variables remain
| > constant. The truth is by the time the answer is
calculated
| > I'd be well past the position.
| > Either 15% of 80 or 74 results in plenty of "free
space."
|
|
| And why would I - you're not Silly You are you? I reserve
my insults for
| those who deserve them - I don't have an infinite supply!
;o)
|
|
|
| --�
| Cassandra
| Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead
Are People Too!'
|
| Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse,
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| of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve
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| correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank
you.
|
|

[Jim Macklin]

I'm using Diskeeper 7 Lite, free download. Nice program.


> wrote in message
...
| On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:16:50 -0700, "Jerry"
> wrote:
|
| >Used defrag on drive & witnessed it use up over 60G of a
| >80G hard drive until a 0% space was left. Now a "Low Disk
| >space" warning keeps poping up. Will not refrag the drive
| >again or undo. Please help, all suggestions welco
|
| I don't use the defrag that comes bundled with WinXP. I
use Diskkeeper
| which is fast; defrags my two HD within a few minutes.
Never had your
| problem pop up!