defragmentation problem.

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Hi. I'm having trouble to defrag one of my partitions. The partition is a 10 GB large and this is the picture of the defrag, 2,69GB are free that is 26-27%.

I've tried many things to defrag the system, but everytime it's completed, and I analyze the drive, defragmentation says I should do a defrag. I currently have a dual boot of xp MCE and XP MCE, and have tried to defrag the same partition from both boot. I've made a defrag from safe boot, a defrag after removing paging file. I have also made a complete full disk check using scandisk, and no errors were present. I don't have any virus or spyware, say AVG and Windows Defender.

What more should I do?

Message Edited by muhboy on 04-29-2007 05:09 PM

muhboy · Answer

And here is the defrag report:

Volume XP MCE (D:)
    Volume size                                = 10,00 GB
    Cluster size                               = 4 KB
    Used space                                 = 7,31 GB
    Free space                                 = 2,69 GB
    Percent free space                         = 26 %

Volume fragmentation
    Total fragmentation                        = 13 %
    File fragmentation                         = 27 %
    Free space fragmentation                   = 0 %

File fragmentation
    Total files                                = 32.713
    Average file size                          = 277 KB
    Total fragmented files                     = 2
    Total excess fragments                     = 22
    Average fragments per file                 = 1,00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

Folder fragmentation
    Total folders                              = 3.551
    Fragmented folders                         = 1
    Excess folder fragments                    = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
    Total MFT size                             = 41 MB
    MFT record count                           = 36.328
    Percent MFT in use                         = 87 %
    Total MFT fragments                        = 2

mombodog · Answer

Try a third party defrag utility.   http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/defragmentation.shtml Also do a disk cleanup on that drive. Message Edited by mombodog on 04-29-2007 09:08 PM

simpswr · Answer

You have a dual boot of the same operating system twice? . . Why is that??

muhboy · Answer

Well I found out. It's the pagefile, and it has 2 fragment's. I've tried to defrag using other software, and deleting pagefile, and then defrag, but the fragments don't go away. But thanks for you help. 2 fragments shouldn't be that big of a deal, right?   And I have dual boot of XP MCE, because I'm going to upgrade the other, so I don't have to install drivers, and everything. At the moment I don't have all the CD, so I chose to install a second partition with XP, that could be my backup system, if printers or software won't work!

mombodog · Answer

Try this utility to defrag the pagefile   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

simpswr · Answer

My 'less than elegant' method of defraging the Page File.  Set the Page file size to 0 . . reboot into safe mode and defrag . . then reboot to normal mode and reset the Page File size . .

muhboy · Answer

mombodog wrote:

Try this utility to defrag the pagefile

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

I have. Twice. Didn't defrag the fragments. But thanks anyway.

But perhaps 2 fragment's in a file that's 2GB isn't that bad?

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