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
    2010-11-10T16:56:03+00:00

    it looks like an error with the analization read out of defrag

    1. analize reads out 1%
    2. after defrag is ran completely
    3. analize still will read 1%

    This is not the case depending it is an error

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-10T16:31:27+00:00

    Did you clean up the drive before attempting defragmentation?

    I use cCleaner followed by Disk CleanUp to remove restore Points before running Defraggler. You can get a better idea of what is going on with the two third party freeware utilities. Also neither interfere with the utilities provided with Windows.

    http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

    http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

    Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-10T16:22:16+00:00

     files are still fragmented?

    I understand it this way.

    "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-10T13:49:52+00:00

    Maybe I missunderstood, are you saying Defrag can't run to completion befor it gets stuck or that 14% of you files are still fragmented?

    JS

    http://www.pagestart.com

    Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.

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