Defragment unmovable files with xp defrag

Posted November 14, Did you try the boot time defrag? Shaggie Posted December 1, Posted December 1, I tried the boot time defrag, but have not noticed any improvement in these files. Posted December 2, Shaggie Posted December 2, I accept your affirmation. Shaggie Posted January 14, Posted January 14, Anyway, thanks to all for the information.

Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community. Register a new account. I gave it two runs, since I was surprised at how quickly it went. When I looked in the Windows defrag's analyze option, it had done a much better job, even though there were still some "unmovable" files left at the end of the drive. However, when I tried to partition it did exactly what I wanted. Thanks again!

Another quick question, though. I've seen this before when running fsck on my PC, and it never ends; the only solutions is to hard power off and boot in to "Last known good". That's not a good sign. Generally, I've seen this when the partition tables were invalid and chkdsk ends up ruining all the files it attempts to "fix" because it miscalculates where the file boundaries are. Was it running on your system drive? Does it still boot? Elvandil said:.

Any ideas how I can sort this without the renaming chkdsk hack? If chkdsk can't fix the disk errors, you will need to remove the partitions from the drive, repartition, reformat, and reinstall your operating system provided that the drive has no physical problems and needs repalcing. There are many disk errors that cannot be repaired.

Yes, I know. But even programs that make backups of your drive will detect the error and fail to launch. There is one program, however, that is designed specifically for making images of bad drives so you can try to recover data from it later: copyr. Errors of that type are rare and generally mean something is wrong with the drive. HD Tune CheckDisk 1. Well, I can still boot with the renaming hack, and I can access all the files I need, so I shan't bother just yet.

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I have jkdefrag, contig and pagedefrag. If you have already run the windows defragger, it will at least have made some attempt to group free space together, even if it cant get all the files.

So, you copy and paste the file into the same folder. This will force the OS to allocate space for another file, and it will choose the largest spaces available. It will then assemble the fragments of the original into the large spaces it allocated, which barring the most severe of space shortages and file fragmentations will usually drastically reduce the number of fragments in the copied file.

When the copy is finished, delete the original and rename the copy to what the original was called. Either paste and copy the file in the same place again. My pc has just told me for the first time since I purchased it several years ago and after many defrags that it cannot defrag all the files.

I ran the defrag again with everything shut down but it still came up with the same message. It says all of the files it cannot degrag are in documents and settingsAll Users Application.

Is it worth trying to get these particular files to degrag? I went in and unchecked read only hoping that would help but it didnt. Do i need to further attempt to defrag this?

I have already deleted all the files and programs I feel comfortable deleting to try to free up more space. Mein Gott! How can I defragment the System Volume Information? Please, help me. When I update the program it reads completed successfully, and gives a error code. How can I resolve this problem?

This is after I have completely emptied my hard drive of photos, videos, documents, pictures, etc. I know you said lack of hard drive space would reduce ability to defrag, but any advice would be appreciated! And files are still scattered many of them still fragmented all over the hard drive. If not, why not?

Particularly, does it have anything to do with the nature of the NT File System? More to this suggestion if you are interested. Perhaps Leo could tell you how to check this. The data is as follows: 56Gb hard drive on XP.

Removing only the My Documents — 2. I hasten to add that the XP home edition is in fine fettle and is still working well. I simply dislike untidiness. MANY applications make assumptions about what they can or cannot put there. No dice. I recently also tried some well-rated defragger freeware but all they could do is try load me up with unwanted add-ons, nothing else. I can, after a suitable interval, then delete the 20Gb partition and re-insert the huge graphics file in the space left behind.

Their tool complains about me not being an administrator, even though I deliberately right-clicked it to run it as the administrator. Mark Mark 9, 2 2 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges.

TheSmurf TheSmurf 15k 2 2 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges. This is really ugly and I don't recommend it unless there is no cleaner solution.

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