Defrag Stuck at 1% No Matter How Many Time I Run It

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Defrag is stuck at one percent even though I have ran it a dozen times completely, this was the case with my system reserve partition too a while ago it was stuck at 14%, now my system reserve partition when it is defraged returns to 0% but my system partition is stuck at 1% no matter how many times I run defrag it seems can that be solved anyhow?

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Neither the Auslogics or Microsoft Disk Defragmenters defragment the pagefile. If you allow Windows to manage the pagefile and the free disk space is less than 50% of the volume in which the pagefile resides, the pagefile fragments.

The way to avoid this problem is to place the pagefile in it's own partition or to have a fixed minimum = maximum pagefile created before the free disk space reduces below 50%.

This Article tells you how to get round the problem using the Auslogics utility

http://www.auslogics.com/en/articles/how-to-defrag/

Whther the Auslogics solution always works is questionable. To recreate the pagefile you have to restart the computer. The shutdown causes entries to be written to files so that if there was already limited free disk space these entries start the fragmentation process once again. The new pagefile is created early in the boot process but the files and free disk space have already started to fragment. The Auslogics solution will certainly improve the situation but less so if the free disk space is say only 20% of the drive.

Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

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Anonymous

2010-11-11T08:28:48+00:00

The reports by the Defragmenter provided with Windows are not always helpful. I just checked this computer. The defragmenter provided with Windows reported 0% fragmentation. This was confirmed by Defraggler but there were at the same time 765 fragmented files. Reporting by these tools is misleading because they are selective as to what they report. Another user has told you "the buildin tool skips by default files which are larger than 64MB".

The user interface of the Defragmenter provided with Windows has long been criticised for providing poor information. The interface was better in XP, and awful in Vista. It is marginally better in Windows 7 compared to Vista and not so good as XP. This is one reason for using a third party defragmenter as better information puts the user more in control rather than having to rely on global assumptions made by those who devised the Windows Defragmenter.

You will not detect file corruption by reading defragmenter reports. This is better detected by reading Error reports generated by the System.

Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell
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Anonymous

2010-11-11T00:22:17+00:00

Run the SFC /SCANNOW command. This will check and repair if necessary any critical Windows system files.

Click on Start/All programs/Accessories then

Right click on Command Prompt option and select 'Run as administrator'.

At the command prompt enter: SFC /SCANNOW

Windows 7 - SFC SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program generates in Windows Vista:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228

Open a command Prompt by right clicking and select 'Run as Administrator' and then at the command prompt type: chkdsk /f /r then press the enter key.

Also if you know the manufacture of your hard drive you can download their diagnostic software.

**Hard drive Testing - Bootable CD:**If you have a new Seagate hard drive the very next thing would be to download Seagate's Seatools (the bootable CD) and check for bad sectors:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

For Western Digital drives use WdDiag: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=en

Fujitsu's Utilities: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/utilities.html

Samsung's Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html

Samsung's Disk manager software: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Another utility: SpeedFan has an online health analysis feature

(SMART tab) for hard drives. It will show how your drives

compares with other drives of the same make and model.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

JS

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Anonymous

2010-11-11T00:07:38+00:00

Issue not resolved in my opinion there are probably corrupt files some where causing Windows Defrag to say that there is an amount fragmented even when it is completely defragmented.
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Anonymous

2010-11-10T22:31:56+00:00

The only way to totally defragment each and every file on the Windows partition is to have a Dual Boot system where you use one version of Windows to defrag the other Windows partition (which not currently in use) OR boot from a CD/DVD and use some type of third part ultility as the utility operates totally in memory and no files are locked or in use on the Windows partition.

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