Defrag Troubles

PiKe · 21 Dec 2006 at 12:11

I've let a partition get rather badly fragemented and I've now come to defrag it, there is plenty of space available for the defrag operation but it keeps halting stating that some files cannot be defragmented, there are several files in 4000 fragments, heres the output that defrag gives:

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Volume (D:)
    Volume size                                = 145 GB
    Cluster size                               = 4 KB
    Used space                                 = 114 GB
    Free space                                 = 31.05 GB
    Percent free space                         = 21 %

Volume fragmentation
    Total fragmentation                        = 21 %
    File fragmentation                         = 43 %
    Free space fragmentation                   = 0 %

File fragmentation
    Total files                                = 5,669
    Average file size                          = 22 MB
    Total fragmented files                     = 146
    Total excess fragments                     = 212,438
    Average fragments per file                 = 38.47

Pagefile fragmentation
    Pagefile size                              = 0 bytes
    Total fragments                            = 0

Folder fragmentation
    Total folders                              = 294
    Fragmented folders                         = 1
    Excess folder fragments                    = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
    Total MFT size                             = 18 MB
    MFT record count                           = 7,994
    Percent MFT in use                         = 44 %
    Total MFT fragments                        = 2

Can anyone suggest how to get it to defrag short of moving the offending files off the partition temporarily?

J.B · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:31

Are there any open handles to the disk?

PiKe · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:41

basmic · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:52

Give PerfectDisk a go?

PiKe · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:52

Is that payware?

basmic · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:59

PiKe said:
Is that payware?

I can't remember if it has a free trial or not. If so, try it out and you might consider buying it.

Put it this way, I swear by it. :cool:

Curiosityx · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:20

If youve used 114Gb of space out of a total of 40Gb id say you have some very large files that cant be defragmented no matter which program you use.

PiKe · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:26

The fragmented files are 350mb in size.

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 18:04

tv episodes from torrents?

i think windows defrag likes to have over 30% of the drive free for defrag..

use powerdefrag, its free..

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Power_Defragmenter_GUI_d4647.html

you need to put this into c:\windows\system32 folder first..

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Contig.zip (extract the exe and put it in s32 folder, then run powerdefrag)

Curiosityx · 21 Dec 2006 at 18:06

PiKe said:
The fragmented files are 350mb in size.

I realy wouldnt worry about them.

Berserker · 21 Dec 2006 at 18:16

Do you have somewhere else to put the files? If so, move them elsewhere, defrag, move them back. Works more often than not.

osc89er · 24 Dec 2006 at 11:03

Berserker said:
Do you have somewhere else to put the files? If so, move them elsewhere, defrag, move them back. Works more often than not.

I second this. When I don't have enough space on a single partition for a proper defrag I use this to do a little manual defragging.

also if you look up winternals, they have a free utility called contig. it is a command line interface for the windows defrag that lets you defrag individual files/folders/wildcard selections.

[edit: I should have read the thread...]