Diskeeper 2007 freezes during analyze step of defraging

[Nuker43]

This has been happening to me a ton lately. When i go to defrag using diskeeper it never gets passed 20% and then just freezes. I formated the computer and then it was fine for a couple days and then one day i went to defrag and it got stuck at 12%. Every time i restart it gets stuck at the same percentage.

Can anyone help me out? im getting stressed out and pretty much fed up with this. My computer seriously needs a defrag.

 

[John]

Reboot to safe mode and run it.

 

[bruceb]

It might be a good idea to empty your Temp files
and the Prefetch files first

C:\Docs & Settings\User ID\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Windows\Prefetch

Note: I use Diskeeper 9 Pro .. it usually slows down a bit
at around 30% or so then after about 5 mins it moves along
This is on a 120GB Drive ... I think the new Diskeeper 10
may be more bloated .. Also, if you haven't defragged in a
while it will take longer ... Some AV Programs need to be
disabled for DK to run smoothly

 

[Nuker43]

tried all that. I don't know why it freezes at the same % every time. Something is up. Maybe one of my drives in the raid is dying? I'm about to give up lol

 

[Lemon law]

Have you tried running chkdsk /f---which will require a reboot to run? To see if you have some screwed up files.

 

[bruceb]

Just an idea, but Diskeeper offers a couple of options, both of which may be of help

1): Make sure your MBR is of a sufficient size .. Diskeeper can resize as desired

2): You may want to have Diskeeper run a Boot Time Defragment of the drives
If you do this, it is a good idea to Image the System with Ghost or TruImage first
just in case the boot time defrag messes something up

 

[Nuker43]

I've done the MBR thingy and it always says its unsufficient size and when i go to make it sufficient its some ridiculous amount of megabytes it needs. But after i defrag the health is always green.. and this is leaving the MBR the same size. I haven't tried the boot time and im afraid to. The checkdisk did come up with a lot of errors so maybe i do have to format again. Wierd how i just formated though.... i hope my drives are ok.

 

[Tegeril]

If you ran a check disk with /f and got a bunch of errors, I'd say go and do it again with the /r switch instead. The defrag software might be hanging up on a bad sector on the drive.

There's also the FIXMBR command which can be run from the windows recovery console if it is a MBR issue.

 

[John]

Run Spinrite or your HDD mfg's diag tools on your hard drives ASAP.

 

[Nuker43]

well at least we're getting somewhere now... i ran spinrite and after the first 10 minutes it found something and gave it a red U which means unrecovered. I'm guessing i got blad sectors... what should i do? Look for the serial number and see if my drives are on warranty or is there another program i can try?

Also im on raid so should i split the raid and run them seperate to find out which drive is dying?