I have tried to defrag my c drive (showing 33.6% fragmented) but after several hours (all day today) nothing happens and the system hangs. I end up having to crash the system to reboot. Clearly not good. Tried to run defrag from both within windows (Accessories/System Tools) and from DOS (command prompt run as adminstrator - defrag c: -r). Same result everytime. Can someone please help. BTW I switched off screen saver and adjusted the power settings to keep everything going all the time.
Cannot defrag
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Welcome
Try with this. You may get your degrag done, and we can pinpoint the problem a little more easily.
Defraggler - File and Disk Defragmentation - Free Download
Try with this. You may get your degrag done, and we can pinpoint the problem a little more easily.
Defraggler - File and Disk Defragmentation - Free Download
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS420
- Memory
- 6 gig
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
- Sound Card
- Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
- Hard Drives
- 640 gb
- Cooling
- Fan
- Mouse
- Dell USB 4 button optical
- Keyboard
- Dell USB
- Other Info
- DSL provided by ATT
I always use defrag.exe C: -W
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo Thinkpad T400
- CPU
- Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz
- Motherboard
- LENOVO 64734VM
- Memory
- 2.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- Intel Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
- Sound Card
- Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 15 inch
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 800
- Hard Drives
- 1x 180GB Intel 530 series SSD 1 x 120GB Hitachi 5400rmp 1 x 650GB Western Digital Elements 5400rpm 1x 1Tb Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
- Internet Speed
- Medium for New Zealand
- Other Info
- Weakest part of my computer is the graphics chipset. Only ever used a laptop. Also use USB Freeview TV Card Lenovo Docking Station External Speakers Other bits a pieces as needed
If you can use the program that I suggested then the problem is with the OS defrag. If it does not work the problem would be with the OS.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS420
- Memory
- 6 gig
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
- Sound Card
- Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
- Hard Drives
- 640 gb
- Cooling
- Fan
- Mouse
- Dell USB 4 button optical
- Keyboard
- Dell USB
- Other Info
- DSL provided by ATT
Try this. Run several times if errors are found. Then try to defrag, again
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS420
- Memory
- 6 gig
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
- Sound Card
- Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
- Hard Drives
- 640 gb
- Cooling
- Fan
- Mouse
- Dell USB 4 button optical
- Keyboard
- Dell USB
- Other Info
- DSL provided by ATT
niemiro
Banned
Hello,
I do not know if this is your cause, but this is a common cause for deframentation problems if you use the basic Windows defragmenter. Therefore, I would recommend that you always use Defraggler as suggested above, or the free Auslogics Disk Deframent
The problem is that if a system file becomes fragmented, it sometimes get mislabelled as moveable, and then when the deframenter tries to move it, it can't, it decides not move on until it becomes available (which it never will), and gets stuck, just as yours did. A good deframenter would not get into this sticky situation, and would move on, but unfortunatly, not for the Windows Defragmenter.
The other time this can occur is when you try to re-size a partition using the Windows Disk Manager, and then you end up with a big corruption when you turn it off, and your data gone, and so, I would not recommend using Windows to re-size a partition (or any operation where you expect the data to remain - any operation involving a format is fine)
This is the likeliest cause, because heaven forbid if you use a file that the Windows Defragmenter wants to move! (It does not have to be a system file, if you are running a program in background, a good defragmenter would just move on)
Richard
I do not know if this is your cause, but this is a common cause for deframentation problems if you use the basic Windows defragmenter. Therefore, I would recommend that you always use Defraggler as suggested above, or the free Auslogics Disk Deframent
The problem is that if a system file becomes fragmented, it sometimes get mislabelled as moveable, and then when the deframenter tries to move it, it can't, it decides not move on until it becomes available (which it never will), and gets stuck, just as yours did. A good deframenter would not get into this sticky situation, and would move on, but unfortunatly, not for the Windows Defragmenter.
The other time this can occur is when you try to re-size a partition using the Windows Disk Manager, and then you end up with a big corruption when you turn it off, and your data gone, and so, I would not recommend using Windows to re-size a partition (or any operation where you expect the data to remain - any operation involving a format is fine)
This is the likeliest cause, because heaven forbid if you use a file that the Windows Defragmenter wants to move! (It does not have to be a system file, if you are running a program in background, a good defragmenter would just move on)
Richard
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS 420
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
- Motherboard
- Stock Dell 0TP406
- Memory
- 4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
- Screen Resolution
- 1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 640Gb (SATA 300) Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 1 x 1Tb (SATA 600) Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
- PSU
- Stock PSU - 375W
- Case
- Dell XPS 420
- Cooling
- Stock Fan
- Mouse
- Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
- Keyboard
- Dell Bluetooth
- Internet Speed
- 120 kb/s
- Other Info
- ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
OK finally got a result. Ran the SFC scan. No problems found. Ran Defraggler again but this time defragmented the files a few at a time. Ran the full defrag after and no problems 
Thanks for all the help. Hope this thread helps others with same problem...
Thanks for all the help. Hope this thread helps others with same problem...