Defrag question

[DaviDaVinci]

I'm trying to defrag my windows partition. it's 9.6 gigs with 21% free space. I ran the analyze and after the defrag, it looks almost like it did before i defraged. There are red bars all across the analyze chart. What's going on?

Thanks

 

[John]

I had a similar issue until I reformatted (XP Pro). I was even using Diskeeper 7 workstation.....

I have no idea why I had so much red (fragmented) space that could not be fixed.

 

[IcedCpu]

I dont know if this helps much but i had the same problem with my hd untill i got a third party defrag. I use norton speed disk and it works great for me you might try that.

 

[WhoDeeny]

what file system are you using: NTFS or FAT32?

 

[Smilin]

Sometimes it takes more than one pass. You should also check into boot-time defragging (see helpfiles). It will let you defrag some things that otherwise can't be moved.

Diskeeper generally sucks. There are one-pass defrag utils out there that are better.

 

[corkyg]

I have tried most all of them - Norton SpeedDisk just can't do much with NTFS - slower than molasses in January. DiskKeeper 7.0 is OK - but the best I have found is PerfectDisk by Raxco. It does off line defragging of system files - the real bear for defraggers in NTFS is the MFT reserved zone. It is usually quite large and places itself in the middle of a drive when Windows is loaded. It's presence actually causes a lot of fragmentation. P/D deals with that very well.

PD

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Just tried PerfectDisk. it pretty much moved all the red bars to one side. windows analyze still says for me to defrag.
BTW, NTFS, on XP. It's just driving me nuts.!!