Defrag would not finish overnight?

[jkac123]

I have a 60 GIG HD and I have defraged this thing before in like 3 hours. I have tried two days in a row now and left it running all night . When I woke up it was at 70%

The night before it only went to 55% and had some kind of error message. I did run scan disk before running defrag.

Anyone ever see this problem? Is it just something that will take longer?


I have Win ME OS.

[Andy72]

Hi jkac123

Make sure you have no programs running on backround while you defrag ... screensavers are worse but also other programs can interfere defragging progress and make it start over again.

Large HD like yours will take many many hours but shouldn't take that long.


Andy

[dmoltrup]

It could be a couple of things. The most likely of causes are:

Your drive isn't fragmented, it's FRACTURED.
Sorry, not as bad as it sounds. This probably isn't the case, but it could be that you have a severely fragmented drive. It could also be that there are very large files on the drive that it cannot move. You may want to temporarily install another hard drive as your scratch disk before attempting to defrag a drive like this.

Other programs are running.
This is quite common. You could have another program accessing the hard drive and forcing defrag to reset. I had a computer like this. The only thing I could do was a complete reinstall, because I simply could not find the aberrant program. It was a Dell, and I was leasing it, so it had all the administration **** on it, which I think was at fault. Removing everything and starting over worked. Then again, after reinstalling, I really didn't need to defrag did I?

You could also check with the Microsoft Knowledge Base

[jkac123]

I did shut off the screen saver, and far as I know anything else running?

[nadine]

Hiry Running derag in safe mode
for me defrag will took about 1 to 2 minutes
coz am using
voptMe
and it is Really fast than the ms defrag .
laters,nadine

[Andy72]

You can check it with pressing once ctrl+alt+del. You dont need anything else than explorer to run disk defragment.

Also some powersaving options might interefere defreg. Not sure about this though. Does ME have hypernation?

Andy.

[posthumous_GRIN]

Originally posted by jkac123
I have a 60 GIG HD and I have defraged this thing before in like 3 hours. I have tried two days in a row now and left it running all night . When I woke up it was at 70%

The night before it only went to 55% and had some kind of error message. I did run scan disk before running defrag.

Anyone ever see this problem? Is it just something that will take longer?


I have Win ME OS.

safe mode is the way to go...

[Philip1952]

Also on the defrag page. Click on the settings button. Uncheck the box that says to move programs for a faster start. You don't need to move programs around all the time. The faster start might only mean a few mls. So it isn't worth the longer defrag times.

[shark_megabyte]

If your Windows swap file is too small, it could be changing often and forcing defrag to start over again ('Drive contents changed, restarting...'). Check your Virtual Memory settings.

[G]

Why don’t you download Diskeeper V7 trial, let it do all the hard work. If Diskeeper does not work then it should pinpoint a problem with your system. In all probability it will sort your fragmentation problem out once and for all.

G

[RayH]

I used to have some program running that would force my defragmenter to continually reset. I turned off every known program I knew. But the thing would keep resetting. I ran Evidence Eliminator. I don't know what it found. But it put a stop to that!

[mr.cicada]

I had a computer with a MSI board, Duron chip and Win98 and the only way I could ever get defrag to work was to hit ctrl-alt-delete and close everything except explorer.

[G]

If deleting some file(s) or folder(s), as intimated by RayH, can do the trick then this may be a good way to go. However, with all due respect to RayH I would go with an alternative to Evidence Eliminator. That is Eraser 2002 Professional Edition. I beta test all East Technologies products and I can whole heatedly recommend Erasure. It’s the dogs. Go to www.east-tec.com

Have a go with Diskeeper V7.0 before or after though deleting or even Speed Disk if you have any Norton/Symantec Utilities or its equivalent with Speed Disk included.

G