I am new to this forum, but need some advice on the disk defragmenter.
I tried to defragment the disk last night and left it on all night.
In the morning, the disk defragmenter 'still' says... this may take a
few minutes to a few hours. The disk defragmenter is ususally on a
schedule which is every wednesday, but I am beginning to think it has
never been defragmented.
How do I defragement the disk in this situation... and hopefully
rectify the automatic scheduled defragementation.

Ryan


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ryancr500

Disable the Windows built-in defrag schedule [Control Panel - System
and Maintenance - Defragment your hard drive - uncheck 'run on a
schedule'] and use this;

'Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
(http://www.auslogics.com/en/software...efrag/download)

Much faster and natively x64. And you get a progress bar


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Brian the King

I try that and let you know how it works out,

Ryan


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ryancr500

I've been letting the Auslogics Disk defragmenter work on my C drive.
It appears to have stalled at about 90% of the defragementation....1/2"
from the finish line! There have been no changed in the # of
fragmented/defragmented files for the past 20 min.
I'll leave it for a while and see what happens.

Any ideas for what would cause the defragmentation to stall?

Ryan


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ryancr500

Interesting that this happened with both programs, in my mind that means
a file is corrupt somwhere..

Can you see which file the defragmentation has stopped on?

If not try this; Computer - Right click "Your HDD" - Properties -
Tools - Error Checking - Check both boxes, hit start, schedule a scan,
and restart your computer.

Hopefully the diskcheck will find and rectify the file that is giving
you trouble.

ps this will take a long time, possibly hours, and it can not be
interrupted.

If you can tell which file is causing the hang-up, though, don't do the
diskcheck just yet, just let us know which file it is.


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Brian the King

Run error checking first on the drive. The first defrag can take a long
time depending on speed of drive, total size of files, number of files
and level of fragmentation.


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SCSIraidGURU

Michael A. McKenney
'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com)

Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
16GB DDR667
SAS RAID
eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card

The Auslogics disk defragmenter managed to finally finish defragmenting.
It took a while!
THanks for the help


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ryancr500