Defragging

[Victim]

I'm trying to defragment my hard disk, the program (default that comes with XP) stops at about 20% without really changing anything. Apparently, files that can't defragment include pretty everything, since my fragments ratio is 1.87. How do I get this to work?

 

[TwistedBishop]

Are you defragging from Safe Mode? I found I had to do that for the thing to run without problems

 

[Victim]

Not this time (which is in diagnostic mode); I've tried it before with little improvement.

 

[Bront]

run a full checkdisk error checking first, then try the defrag. You may need to let the PC reboot and run the check on bootup.

 

[hong]

I defragged my Counterstrike game, and now I can't do a thing with it.

 

[Merkuri]

Make sure you don't have any programs running in the background, like maybe an instant messenging client. Any programs making changes to your disk may cause the defrag to restart.

 

[XCorvis]

Try SpeeDefrag. It reboots your computer and starts the defrag program without starting anything else. That lets it defrag stuff that would otherwise be running. At least, I think it does, because I haven't tried it. I used a different program to do something like this previously, but now I just kill all the programs manually and run a regular defrag like AusLogic's.

http://www.vcsoftwares.com/SpeeDefrag.html

Personally, I prefer AusLogic's free disk defrag tool. It's blazingly fast, but it doesn't do the reboot thing that SpeeDefrag does.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/

 

[TogaMario]

And whatever you do, don't let the power go out or the computer shut off while it's defragging. The files transfer into RAM then back onto the HDD, so if it's a system critical file that it's moving when the computer dies, you might be in for a headache.

 

[silvermane]

That's pretty much the case with any disk operations, isn't it?

 

[Victim]

I've tried starting from Safe Mode, using chkdsk (/f) and using SpeeDefrag to no significant effect.