Defrag Question

[GDW]

One of my drive partitions (20gig) has currently 5 gig free and most of the files are fragmented. Everytime I defrag whether it be using Windows or
O & O it makes no difference and gives me a long list of files that cannot be defragmented. The files on this partition are mainly MP3s and some divx movies.

Has anyone any idea why the disk wont defrag?

 

[TdC]

hmm, are they perhaps flagged as 'read-only' or summat?

 

[GDW]

No, Ive just checked some of the ones listed in the report as not able to be moved and they aren't read only

 

[TdC]

can you manually copy them off the partition to another and back?

edit: also, I seem to recall wondows being gay if they're marked 'system'

tbh you need a windows buff. my piddly unix skills can't help you here, you've drifted too far into the dark side

 

[babs]

It may be your windows swap file. Try setting it to a small or non-existent amount, boot into safe mode and try running defrag then.

The only other thing that may be stopping it is if you have a file larger than the amount of unfragmented spare space at any time.

 

[old.user4556]

You could also give diskeeper lite a blast, I find it to be a much better defragger than windows defrag (which blows).

It's free (try download.com) and it might be worth a shot?

G

 

[Utini]

Try perfect disk from raxco.com, its the best 2K/XP defragger supposedly.
(Ive had similar probs: but with PD set to aggressive free space consolidation and an overnight defrag it cleared everything up).

 

[GDW]

Thanks guys