Vista32 install fragments

digitaldreams · 12 Sep 2007 at 09:16

Hi

The last couple of Vista32 installs have left large fragments on the HD's. Drive defragmenters won't touch them, 'error checking' finds nothing. On examination the fragments hold "C:\System Volume Information\" then a load of letters and numbers in curly brackets ??.

What is this and how can it be corrected ?. Vista64 had no similar problem.

Regards

digitaldreams · 13 Sep 2007 at 10:32

Anyone ?

Two completely different machines....approx 23% permanently fragmented. I've thought of putting the drives in yet another machine and trying to defrag from that...

Regards

marc2003 · 13 Sep 2007 at 11:42

that'll be system restore. if you don't use it, you could disable it and free up the space altogether.

otherwise get a defragger that supports an "offline" routine - basically it will reboot the pc into a sort of windows safe mode so it has full access to the drive. perfect disk is one. i'm sure there are others.

digitaldreams · 19 Sep 2007 at 22:34

marc2003 said:
that'll be system restore. if you don't use it, you could disable it and free up the space altogether.

Spot on !, thanks....