It Says I Have 20% Fragmentation And Not Much I Can Do About It

[persianpower]

I just defragmented my hdd. It says I have 20% fragmentation and not much I can do about it. I used Windows

Defragger. Is there another free defragger I should be using that could better help with my fragmentation problem?

I've included the test report, if that helps. By the way, I cannot delete the fragmented files. They are crucial

and I cannot even modify them. Is there another way to solve the fragmentation dilema?

Volume (C:)

Volume size = 27.95 GB

Cluster size = 4 KB

Used space = 22.50 GB

Free space = 5.45 GB

Percent free space = 19 %

Volume fragmentation

Total fragmentation = 20 %

File fragmentation = 41 %

Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation

Total files = 33,714

Average file size = 789 KB

Total fragmented files = 18

Total excess fragments = 4,616

Average fragments per file = 1.13

Pagefile fragmentation

Pagefile size = 336 MB

Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation

Total folders = 2,375

Fragmented folders = 1

Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation

Total MFT size = 43 MB

MFT record count = 36,253

Percent MFT in use = 82 %

Total MFT fragments = 3

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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented

3 347 MB The following 9 files are current Bitcomet downloads.

6 350 MB

13 350 MB

4 350 MB

10 350 MB

8 350 MB

4 350 MB

5 636 MB

43 700 MB

3,607 1.15 GB The following 3 files are large archives I'm sharing on DC++

56 1.15 GB

859 1.24 GB

[Tywais]

One thing is that you should do the defrag in "Safe Mode" with no applications running. This will allow the Bitcomet files to defrag since windows will not defrag any open files (generally). Since the hdd you have is quite small the number of open bitcomet files is what is keeping the fragmentation % high. Do what I said above and you should be OK.

[h5n1]

run in safe

dump internet temp files, temp files, etc....

remove all unnec programs

run program to remove unwanted files

the message you aer getting may very well be there is not enough free space to defrag the drive - not that it cannot be done.

run in safe -surely

[katana]

...Is there another free defragger I should be using that could better help with my fragmentation problem?

I've used Diskeeper Lite on Win 9X/XP.

Seems to work ok (and faster than Windows' native defragger).

http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe.

[cnxpat]

...Is there another free defragger I should be using that could better help with my fragmentation problem?

I've used Diskeeper Lite on Win 9X/XP.

Seems to work ok (and faster than Windows' native defragger).

http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe.

Hi, I use O&O Defrag 2000 Freeware Edition and am happy with it, does it in a fraction of the time the XP defragger takes. Also has the nice pre-XP graphics that you can watch, the coloured moving around :-). XP made it soooo boring!

It's freeware, (maybe one for the list on the top?)

if interested, do a search on "O&O Defrag 2000 Freeware Edition".

[Khun Jean]

There is also another solution.

And that is just leave it like it is.

Nothing to worry about.

Actually deframenting uses a lot of harddisk head movements.

It shortens the life of your harddisk. But not as much as using in in high humid climates like in Thailand.

I guess when you finish the downloads of those files you will copy them to a cd or dvd. After that you can do a defrag. The windows one works just fine.

You need to defragment files only when it is getting too fragmentated.

You will notice this when your computer is getting slower and the harddisk activity led is on longer than it used to be.

If you create, copy and delete a lot of files you can use it more often. About once a month should be more than enough.

[astral]

Diskeeper is my tool of choice.

It does need some elbow room to work, but 20% should suffice.