Another Defrag Issue

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On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and drive
D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes and
showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about a
minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?

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"Jerold Schulman" wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:04:06 -0800, "jkf1024" <jkf1024@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
> >partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and drive
> >D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
> >cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
> >several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes and
> >showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about a
> >minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
> >something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?
>
> You can temporyarily move some of the folders from one drive to the other.
> Then defrag the drive that now has more freespace.
> When done, move the folders back.
>
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows: General MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com
>

I tried that. I got drive C: to go from 30% free space to 37%. Still the
same result.

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Get a list of the files that won't defrag. I suspect they are all under one
account. To fix this, you need to create a new local admin account and
defrag from that account. No defragger can defragment the currently logged
user's hive files.

BTW, The windows defragger is Diskeeper "Really" Lite.

Mike Ober.

"jkf1024" <jkf1024@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Jerold Schulman" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:04:06 -0800, "jkf1024"
<jkf1024@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > >On a Win2K server, running SP4 and the latest updates, the C: and D:
> > >partitions are severely fragmented. Drive C: shows 30% free space and
drive
> > >D: shows 23% free space. I have stopped all non-essential services and
> > >cleaned up temp files, etc., before running the defrag. I have run it
> > >several times on each partition. At first, it ran for several minutes
and
> > >showed only a very slight improvement. Subsequent runs finish in about
a
> > >minute and make no change to the fragmentation of the drive. Is there
> > >something I can do to work around this and get the drive defragmented?
> >
> > You can temporyarily move some of the folders from one drive to the
other.
> > Then defrag the drive that now has more freespace.
> > When done, move the folders back.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerold Schulman
> > Windows: General MVP
> > JSI, Inc.
> > http://www.jsiinc.com
> >
>
> I tried that. I got drive C: to go from 30% free space to 37%. Still the
> same result.
>