i recently picked up the habit of defragging my windows 7 laptop my brother, however, is not a computer person and has a vista home premium 32 bit laptop.
i used defraggler and analyzed the computer and it was 22% fragmented i'm all ready to hit the defrag button but there is only 1 gb free.
btw this is on the main drive with WINDOWS on it and all main files
so with 1 GB free, can i defrag the C: Drive?
I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up space and make my computer perform the best it can?
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I agree with all of the others. With no way to verify, or manually select,
the individual drives I can see where we will be having data loss without
even seeing any warnings.
Isn't there a way to open a Management Control Panel for some kind of control over this "foolproof" application?
I have tried O&O defrag and the vista disk defragmenter. My hard drive won't defrag below 30%, is this normal?
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This may be the cause for me not being able to run downloaded files from the internet & files from an external source (CD Drive). I have tried the usual methods of defreg, disk clean up, resize shadow storge & running Windows Defender (Which is now giving error messages too) & none of these seem to have fixed the problem. There are a few other things I've tried too, but wondered if anyone has come across this before.
I have a full copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Since I'm old school I am going to wipe the drive and upgrade it from scratch. Before I do that I would like to back up the entire drive in case something goes wrong and I have to go back to Vista. What is the best free Drive imager out there? My plan is to back up the entire drive onto a network drive or external USB2/Firewire/esata drive. I would rather not have to install the OS to restore but if I have to I'll do it.
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P.S. I did a custom install when I installed Home premium upgrade and I want to leave the past behind and start with a clean computer slate. I only have 77gb/225gb free. That's why I'm trying to delete it
I was just looking on my hard drive and i noticed that it says 256gb free for 451gb. Im not sure why this is because all my files including the hidden files and everything, comes to 112GB only and its telling me i have 200gb of used space when i dont. Does anyone know why this is happening? Ive cleared the recycle bin.
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i then got myself a big dose of malware in april and again i got rid of this, while doing this i noticed that when i try to boot in safe mode of any kind (safe,network,prompt) i freeze on the crc drive. im not sure if this is a result of the install i done or the malware i had, but did find some info that it may have been the result of a bad install of SP1 done through the updates feature.........
Is it safe, or possible to compress the Programs folder in my C drive??.
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This drive plugs in and works fine from XP on two different computers but it crashes my Vista machine every time. It also crashes in Safe-Mode. Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 I have removed all data from the drive on the XP machine and formatted the drive replaced data and tried again without success. Format was done in a CMD prompt. I am not sure what else to try, posting here because it works fine in XP so assume its a Vista thing.
Windows Home Premium 32bit. the capacity indicator show the "D" drive to have about 4GB free space out of 10GB. Yet, when I explore the drive, there is nothing there. I had previously been backing up to that drive but deleted those backup files. Yes, i have "view hidden files" turned on and still nothing except for a MediaID.bin file which consumes a whopping 1KB. Have no idea what is using 6GB of D drive space.
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A) Defragment or not to Defragment?
B) Defragment manually or scheduled Defragment?
my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes for my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..i am running vista home premium
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Windows analyzed and suggests defragging but should I defrag the backups? The suggestion to defrag is not for my primary hard drive.
I just tryed this out on my xp machine, and wonderd if they are ok to use PageDefrag. Can this be used in vista also.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have run Defrag several times on this computer and watched it finish. Is there a way to get the defrag tool in Vista to report the file fragmentation? Why doesn't Vista defragment the volume fully when it is run? When I switch over to the XP side on dual boot, I run XP's defrag tool. XP's Defrag tool always reports that "I need to defrag this disk". Is it OK to defrag the Vista Volume with Windows XP Defrag? What up with this? Why doesn't Vista work as well as XP?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to defragment offline (not in the windows operating system), similar to the way chkdsk /r is done to the operating system's partition/HDD offline(right before windows boots)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe Updated Free Version 2.1.1.30 of Auslogics Disk Defrag was released 27 July, and is available for download through CNet Download Center here;
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I installed o&o defrag x64 but the program's service which is /system32/oodag.exe didnt work. I tried to reinstall or start the service manually didnt work either. I use the latest installer. Has anyone had a problem like this??
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View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen i ask it to defrag (Vista), it starts and never quits. little circle just keeps on rotating happily. left it going a couple of times for, say, 10 hours maybe. since it doesn't show percentages anymore (or I can't find them) not sure where we are getting hung up. I've done lots of video editing and having some problems lately in those programs so think I really need a good defragment...or I at least need to see if fragmentation might be the cause (if there is somewhere I can look to determine this please let me know...if not fragmented then problem is probably with video programs,
View 6 Replies View RelatedI located an old hard drive stored on a shelf the other day and connected it to my Vista machine with a USB dongle. I decided to defrag it (350Gb). Now, I already know that Vista's defrag provides NO indication of progress other than that pretty lame statement that "this may take a few minutes to a few hours". I've seen mention of other defraggers here in this NG and am wondering if any of them provide visual progress indications. Previous OS's used either marching colored blocks, or slowly moving vertical bands in a window. Vista's, on the other hand, simply does nothing to indicate progress. Do any of the others provide any performance boost (i.e. faster) as well as any indication of progress?
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