HELP! Defragging problem

glicky

I've been burning some dvd's recently and have noticed that since I've been doing this, whenever I defrag, it only defrags up to 26% and then it stops and says it cannot go any further.

Does anyone know what I can do to correct this please?

Lorian

glicky wrote:

I've been burning some dvd's recently and have noticed that since I've been doing this, whenever I defrag, it only defrags up to 26% and then it stops and says it cannot go any further.

Does anyone know what I can do to correct this please?

One day I'll click quote instead of thanks..

anyhow, try running "error checking" on the drive and see if it comes up with anything.

Right click on drive -> Properties -> Tools -> check Now.

...and alsp check there is plenty of free space on the drive.

Chippy_Minton

Yes, lack of disk space would be my guess, caused by the DVD burner creating large temporary files.

Try running CCleaner.

alared

Agree wth Chippy but the biggest culprit of this problem is another program running in the background.
Before doing a defrag,do a disk clean-up or use, as suggested Crap Cleaner.
Then close down EVERY program thats running including anti virus and firewall and then proceed to defrag.

f1charlie

If it still won't run, defrag in Safe Mode.

glicky

Hi ... it's me again:o

I've done EVERYTHING you all kindly suggested and it's STILL only defragging up to 26%.:mad:

Anymore ideas please, please, please?

albertross_2

XP?

what is the exact error message?

how much free disk space do you have?

glicky

albertross wrote:

XP?

what is the exact error message?

how much free disk space do you have?

Yes XP

I will run defrag again and copy out the message. Thanks. Will post it later today.

glicky

This is the report it gives me once it has reached defragging to 26%

Volume (C:)
Volume size = 37.26 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 17.42 GB
Free space = 19.84 GB
Percent free space = 53 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 16 %
File fragmentation = 33 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 39,434
Average file size = 574 KB
Total fragmented files = 8
Total excess fragments = 1,517
Average fragments per file = 1.03

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 288 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 3,406
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 185 MB
MFT record count = 43,234
Percent MFT in use = 22 %
Total MFT fragments = 3

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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
2 542 MB \Documents and Settings\Glicky\My Documents\My Videos\Justine's Matches\Eastbourne Semi -v- Clijsters.avi
211 686 MB \Documents and Settings\Glicky\My Documents\My Videos\films\rus-borat-Made-By-Suryoyo.AVI
112 694 MB \RECYCLER\NPROTECT\00464117.AVI
515 1,024 MB \RECYCLER\NPROTECT\00464123.VOB
386 1,024 MB \RECYCLER\NPROTECT\00464124.VOB
55 1.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Glicky\Local Settings\Temp\NVE101.tmp
238 1.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Glicky\Local Settings\Temp\NVE102.tmp

Any ideas please?

nielingren

1 empty your recyle bin
2 delete your temps
238 1.00 GB \Documents and Settings\Glicky\Local Settings\Temp\NVE102.tmp
try again

albertross_2

try https://www.ccleaner.com to do the cleaning up.