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
    2010-11-21T21:57:21+00:00

    Windows Defrag is supposed to defrag all of the files on my hard drive or at least until the software itself says 0% fragmented files but after running Windows Defrag a dozen times it still says 1% fragmented, and after running anylize.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-21T21:54:18+00:00

    What is the status of this problem? As far as I know I am the only person that is bothered by this problem, there really isn't very much results on this if I run a search myself.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-13T18:52:44+00:00

    I don't think this forum is for angry banter back and forth telling people that they aren't doing anything right, if you want to be effective in troubleshooting this issue for me and you think you already said something rephrase what you already wrote in a way that you think I would better understand rather than say that I can't read, you're not submiting replies into empty space; a human being is reading them.

    As I understand you think that defrag is missing some files because the built in Windows Defrag does not defrag as effectively as other software.

    I am saying the Windows Defrag has been inconsistant with each Windows installation I have done so it is difficult to belive that is the problem. (inconsitant meaning it has worked to my satisfaction in the past then other times does not)

    I really have no interest in the details of how Windows or any Defrag operates or works really all Windows Defrag has to do is go back to 0% after I run it because that is what it is supposed to do otherwise Windows Defrag is not operating correctly which is why I am contacting this forum.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-13T18:42:22+00:00

    I gave it up. The blog entry explains everything. Read it!

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

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