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

Anonymous
2010-11-10T13:11:29+00:00

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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Anonymous
2011-01-21T18:58:19+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-29T06:08:36+00:00

    Get Diskeeper 2010! It's worked for me in almost every situation for defragmentation in Windows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-22T19:37:17+00:00

    What could I have done with Windows Defrag that would have brought the total fragmented space down to 0%? I left out the /x switch from my tests and defraging from a mount point. Would there have been a way to bring the total fragmented space from 1% to 0% with Windows Defrag?

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-21T19:46:46+00:00

    I am telling you with this command line "defrag C: /a /v" total fragmented space is 0% now after Auslogics Defrag and was 1% after well over dozens of Windows Defrags.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-21T19:43:54+00:00

    What is 0% and what is 1%? Unless you have a precise definition of what is measured you cannot get a definitive answer. One problem is what is included and what is excluded. Are measurements rounded up or rounded down to the nearest whole number or are numbers to right of the decimal point simply ignored? Thus if the actual fragmentation was exactly 0.5% one could round up and one round down.

    It is possible in your case that the pagefile is not fragmented. If you read the Auslogic statement it is clear that the pagefile is not defragmented by their utilitity. No utilities defragment the pagefile unless they run at the very start of the boot process. There are some that do but obviously not the Auslogics tool. If it did there would no point in their article containing the advice about the pagefile.

    Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

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