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
    2010-11-23T17:53:38+00:00

    Hi bmxjumperc,

    Have you tried the methods suggested in the previous post on Monday, November 22, 2010 2:14 PM?

    Regards

    Debleena S

    Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-23T18:08:40+00:00

    Debleena,

    What happend to my alerts, no longer receiving any email alerts such as you post a few minutes ago?

    JS

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

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-23T20:52:05+00:00

    I don't know where the link to the blog post is?

    in your last topic.

    Here is the link to the blog post:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/01/25/disk-defragmentation-background-and-engineering-the-windows-7-improvements.aspx

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

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-01T18:55:52+00:00

    Well it says that best practice using win7 defrag is to not use it at all and do nothing instead let windows handle it so i'll leave it alone I still don't see any reason why it should ever have a difficult time defragging better than 1% left over still needing to be defragmented after running defrag manually.

    It's not like my computer's slow or I am bothered to the point of being unable to use my computer, I just thought it would be best if defrag was working right.

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