Defragment won't finish

[Jonathan]

I have an 80 gig hard-drive that is ~29% fragmented. When I defrag it, the
process runs for about 1 minute, gets to somewhere between 2%-16% finished,
stops and announces it is finished, and gives me the end-of-defragging
summary (which also says it is 29% fragmented). I have no idea what's going
on here. I've shutdown all non-system processes (antivirus, etc) and it does
the same thing. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Malke]

Jonathan wrote:

> I have an 80 gig hard-drive that is ~29% fragmented. When I defrag
> it, the process runs for about 1 minute, gets to somewhere between
> 2%-16% finished, stops and announces it is finished, and gives me the
> end-of-defragging
> summary (which also says it is 29% fragmented). I have no idea what's
> going
> on here. I've shutdown all non-system processes (antivirus, etc) and
> it does
> the same thing. Anyone have any suggestions?

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[Jon]

Try running chkdsk on the drive
(eg Right-click drive > Properties > Tools > Check now...)

Also have a look at the file report that comes up at the end of
defragmentation to see where the defragmentation lies.

Jon


"Jonathan" > wrote in message
...
>I have an 80 gig hard-drive that is ~29% fragmented. When I defrag it, the
> process runs for about 1 minute, gets to somewhere between 2%-16%
> finished,
> stops and announces it is finished, and gives me the end-of-defragging
> summary (which also says it is 29% fragmented). I have no idea what's
> going
> on here. I've shutdown all non-system processes (antivirus, etc) and it
> does
> the same thing. Anyone have any suggestions?
>

[Gerry Cornell]

Jonathan


Before running Disk Defragmenter run Disk CleanUp in each active User
Profile to remove Temporary Internet Files. If free disk space is an
issue select the More Options tab in Disk CleanUp and System Restore.

I would also run chkdsk. In Windows Explorer right click on the drive
and select Properties,
Tools, Error Checker. Finally try Disk Defragmenter again.

The amount of free space is very important when running Disk
Defragmenter. A
minimum of 15% is required but sometimes 20% is desirable if the drive /
partition
contains one or more large files. You can run Disk Defragmenter a second
and third
time if files are still fragmented after the first run. You can put
files more prone to
fragment in their own partitions.

If you use Outlook Express regularly compacting Outlook Express before
running
Disk Defragmenter is helpful.

Disk Defragmenter provides a "Most fragmented files" list. When a
fragmented file is
larger than the largest pocket of free space available then the files is
not fragmented.
Running Disk Defragmenter a second or third time does move files around
and can
reduce / eliminate the contents of the "Most fragmented files" list. The
more free
space on the drive / partition, the more likely it is that all fragments
will be
eliminated.

Free space cannot be defragmented with the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter.
Neither can your pagefile cannot be defragmented because the file is in
use whilst
Disk Defragmenter is running. You can purchase other Defragmenting
Utilities e.g.
Perfect Disk, which will defragment your pagefile and free space.
Another option is to
place your pagefile in it's own partition. A pagefile partition is best
located as the first
partition on a second hard drive. You should leave a small page file at
the original
location.
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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Jonathan" > wrote in message
...
>I have an 80 gig hard-drive that is ~29% fragmented. When I defrag it,
>the
> process runs for about 1 minute, gets to somewhere between 2%-16%
> finished,
> stops and announces it is finished, and gives me the end-of-defragging
> summary (which also says it is 29% fragmented). I have no idea what's
> going
> on here. I've shutdown all non-system processes (antivirus, etc) and
> it does
> the same thing. Anyone have any suggestions?