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

2011-01-21T19:03:04+00:00

If neither Auslogics or Windows Defrag, defrag the page file then why did Auslogics defrag the C: drive to 0% but Windows Defrag only defrag the C: drive to 1%?
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Anonymous

2011-01-21T18:54:43+00:00

No my point was after Auslogics Defrag there were more fragmented files according to the verbos analysis command line switch but the total fragmented space was 0% and with Windows Defrag there was less fragmented files according to the verbos analysis command line but the total fragmented space was 1%
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Anonymous

2011-01-21T18:44:43+00:00

Try MyDefrag: http://www.mydefrag.com/ and see if you get better results.

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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Anonymous

2011-01-21T18:25:24+00:00

I just ran Auslogics Disk Defrag and it seemed to do more than Windows Defrag does but the strange thing is now here is the Windows Defrag analysis data:

Total fragmented space: 0%

Fragmented files: 376

Total file fragments: 1533

So now Windows Defrag is back to zero as it should be after defragging but the number of fragmented files and total file fragments is higher than it was when before I ran Auslogics Disk Defrag and the total fragmented space was 0%.

Before Auslogics Disk Defrag, & and dozens of Windows Defrags:

Total fragmented space: 1%

Fragmeneted files: 68

Total file fragments: 134

After Auslogics Disk Defrag:

Total fragmented space: 0%

Fragmented files: 376

Total file fragments: 1533

I don't really know what contributes to the Total fragmented space percentage data but it seems like either Windows Defrag does a terrible job of defraging or Auslogics Disk Defrag just found some files that Windows Defrag didn't and solved the problem?
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