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April 27th 07, 03:51 PM
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Defragging HD
Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space
left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks. 
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April 27th 07, 04:13 PM
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Defragging HD
Hello,
Defragging does not free up disk space. You can try to free up disk space by going to Start All Programs Accessories System Tools Disk Cleanup After cleaning up, try defragging your files. Also, if you are using Firefox, clear its temp files to free up space too. -- Singapore Website Design http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ Singapore Web Hosting http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html Windows XP FAQ "Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks.
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April 27th 07, 04:16 PM
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Defragging HD
If you defrag a hard drive with "almost no free space left" it won't have a
lot of free space after defrag and the defrag may fail anyhow. Use disk cleanup and remove all "garbage" from the drive first. Check the temporary folders and remove as much as you can. Clean your temporary internet files folder using IE. Once you free up the hard drive space then defrag the drive using the Windows XP defragment utility. In Windows Explorer (or opened My Computer) right click on the drive letter. Click Disk Cleanup. Clear as much as you can there. Then once that is done click Tools then under Defragmentation, click Defragment now. Follow the instructions to defragment. If it fails, you may want to run the Error-checking option just above Defragmentation first. "Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks.
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April 27th 07, 04:44 PM
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Defragging HD
"Dave" wrote in message
t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks. If you're running out of disk space you could uninstall software. Go to StartControl PanelAdd or Remove Programs and also the Add / Remove Windows Components. Remove ONLY the software that you positively know you don't want and don't be tempted to remove anything you don't know about. It may just be important. Disk Cleanup and Defragging (already covered by others) will then complete the job. Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions
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April 27th 07, 05:03 PM
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Disk Cleanup will only run if you have 15% free space
If you have that little free space, either your sys is full of junk or you need to get a larger HD or install a slave HD and move stuff to that "Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks.
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April 27th 07, 06:06 PM
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DL wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks. Disk Cleanup will only run if you have 15% free space Disk cleanup will run regardless. I have a hard drive with *very* little free space Disk Cleanup still analyses. I'm poking around to find out how to turn *off* that warning. I know the drive is full. It's a storage drive for media files. It's *supposed* to be full. Defrag will tell you you need 15% free space, but will run anyway if you tell it to. It just won't do as effective a job. ______ Dennis
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April 28th 07, 01:42 PM
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Defragging HD
Didn't work. I did all of these things. It's a 40G drive in two
partitions. The C drive is the problem. If I get a backup drive, copy everything over, then reformat, will that work? How will I boot from the back up? Thanks. "Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message ... "Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks. If you're running out of disk space you could uninstall software. Go to StartControl PanelAdd or Remove Programs and also the Add / Remove Windows Components. Remove ONLY the software that you positively know you don't want and don't be tempted to remove anything you don't know about. It may just be important. Disk Cleanup and Defragging (already covered by others) will then complete the job. Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions
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April 29th 07, 03:23 AM
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Your assumption that you will have a tremendous amount of freespace is
incorrect when done with defragmentation. The solution is buying and installing an appropriate larger capacity 2.5" hard drive for your laptop. How to get the current data there from the other hard drive depends on your system. If you have 1Gig of RAM or more, disable the swapfile. Open msconfig. Disable any applications opening at boot time. Reboot. Try to defrag. -- Dave Apathy and denial are close cousins "Dave" wrote in message t... Hello, I need to defrag the HD on my laptop. I have almost no free space left.(it will have plenty when defragged) What is the best method? Thanks.
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