Defragmenter, Help, windows one won't work! |
  Jun 15 2007, 04:20 PM
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Quality Quidditch Supplies Test-Flyer  Posts: 1,287 Joined: 8:28am April 2, 2007 Location: 1973     |
Hi, sorry if this is a bit boring, but I'm stuck.
I have been trying to defragment my hard disk drive, but it won't completely do it. When I use the Windows defragmenter, and then use it to analyse the disk, it will still tell me that I need to defragment it just after I've done it. I think the problem may be some video files that I have on there... it appears that they won't defragment. Why is this? I've heard that the windows program isn't great - is this why? Is there another good free program out there somewhere? That's all on Windows XP. Meanwhile, my parents' PC also won't defragment. It gets to 4% complete then won't do any more. Anyone know why? It has me completely stuck. 
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Jun 16 2007, 11:46 AM
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Assistant Shopkeeper at Flourish and Blotts Posts: 1,583 Joined: 7:23am January 28, 2005 Location: Upton Park |
Yeah, I get this from time to time from my Win95/98 days up to XP.
It is best to clear out rubbish from time to time and backup other items onto a CDROM, clear out the temp files and then defrag. If you don't need it, remove it, because with images, movies and music files, a hard drive will fill up pretty fast. It takes time and sometimes the defrag in XP crashes. However, if you do this once a month, it becomes less of a problem. This post has been edited by RacingGreen: Jun 16 2007, 11:51 AM -------------------- Come on you irons...  |
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Jun 26 2007, 01:36 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 58 Joined: 11:43pm July 18, 2006 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Try doing "defrag c: -f" from your command prompt.
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