when i run defragmenter on hdd and it's complete i've analysed it again and it says i should defragment this volume.no matter how many times i do this it still prompts me to do it again.anyone know why..........
2006-08-07 10:54:53 · 11 answers · asked by mev 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
i have run ccleaner and have 74% free space
2006-08-07 11:26:01 · update #1
ccleaner is a good tool though
2006-08-07 11:27:05 · update #2
Try a different defragmenter. I use Diskeeper Lite - its freeware - and its much better. Does a thorough job. You can download it from
Major Geeks. Give it a go.. It's 12mb's of software so its quite a big prog. But once you've got it! I'd be interested to hear your results if you decide to give it a go..
Also - what you find is that system defragmenters (built into the machine) continully stop because other programs interfere. So you get continual instructions to restart. With a self-contained piece of software like Diskeeper you don't get that problem.
2006-08-07 14:01:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Because there's only so much it can do per pass, and your drive must be very fragmented. It would do you some good to delete everything you can do without first so that the defragmenter has more space to move files around. I assume you are using the defragmenter included with your operating system and recommend diskkeeper, widely available over bit torrent.
2006-08-07 11:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by aaupthemeggs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need 25% of your hard drive free to do a complete defrag.
2006-08-07 10:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Roger Y 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try SpeeDefrag - it's free
http://vcsoftwares.com/SpeeDefrag.html
Or Diskeeper Lite
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207
2006-08-07 21:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know, its a pain, and it never moves all the files to the start of the disk, I still end up with blocks of data all over the place
2006-08-07 10:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try closing down all programmes running in background - antivirus, popup blockers, etc. via task manager. DON'T forget to restart them before going back on line, safeest way is to reboot.
2006-08-07 19:17:57 · answer #6 · answered by gropher 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
run disk cleaner or ccleaner, (you can download ccleaner from http://www.cnet.com for free) then run your defragmenter.
2006-08-07 11:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by Chuck H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
defrag in safe mode
it does a better job
2006-08-07 11:07:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I don't know why. mine always has that annoying thing. I stopped using it because it always messes up my system somehow, and doesn't speed up any processing time.
2006-08-07 11:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by fluff~out 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You only need to do this once a month !
2006-08-07 10:59:01 · answer #10 · answered by dontdoweekends 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋