Disk Defragment
Mar 4, 2010Who makes a really good disk defragmenter at reasonable cost.
I used Vista's. It ran for more than 4 hours and never finished. My used disk space increased from 251 GB to 268 GB.
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Disk Defragment Not Completing
Jun 4, 2010Vista home premium SP2. In XP the disk defrag pushes CPU close to 100% and takes a few minutes to sort out the disk. My Vista defrag seems to get bored with defragging and goes to sleep. It does the following
* displays Analysing...
* Puts focus on button Defrag Now
Select the button
Select C: and deselected D: (a small partition)
Select Continue
* Button becomes Cancel Defrag
* displays Defraging hard disk
CPU rises to 75%+ for a few minutes and then falls to
Disk Defragment Does Not Work
Jun 21, 2008After contacting hp 5 times disk defrag still does not work on vista. i ran auslogic love it,, but after the $$$ i spent on my computer i want everything to work right. 16 hours and it was still defragging drive c. rann all the diag everything was fine. any ideas out there
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Sep 13, 2009Last night I defragged my HD using Auslogics defrag program. I've just turned on my PC and checked how much free space I now have and I've gone from having 54.2gb free space on one partition of the HD to 51.3gb after the defrag. How can this be? Surely there should be more empty clusters/free space on my HD now than was before? Would it best for me to run the defrag tool a few more times? This is the first time I've actually defragged the HD since getting this PC 2 years ago. I now know I should run the defrag tool more regularly.
View 9 Replies View RelatedDisk Defragment "No Need To Defrag At This Time"
Aug 31, 2009I check defragmenter regularly and each time it says my file performance is good...no need to defrag at this time. Should I defrag anyway? BTW, I'm running McAfee which has a disk defrag app. and it always gives me the same message...No need to defrag at this time.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow To Defragment Pagefile.sys?
Feb 18, 2010Windows' built-in defragmenter has not been doing too well. Tried running Defraggler http://www.piriform.com/defraggler This is working much better and gives a graphical window with the progress. What I see is that C:pagefile.sys is hugely fragmented (1.5G and 500 fragments). This file seems to not to be able to be defragmented. Sort of makes sense since it is an important system file. Is there a way to get the pagefile to defragment?
which has a boot mode operation that can be enabled to defrag system files before they are locked. This does not seem to be working properly. It does not seem to be doing anything with the pagefile (even though it is in the explicit file list). Perhaps I have not found the correct command line switches yet. Both Defraggler and UltraDefrag were recommended by Kim Komando in her newsletter
Defragment So Slow
Feb 9, 2009I thought I had asked this before but upon searching I found that I did'nt and could not find anyone else posting about this, so here I go again. I like using Auslogics Defrag, but its taking an absolute eternity to defrag, I tend to defrag after every install of a game and I installed another game this afternoon and its still defragging now, is this normal?? does'nt feel like it
My only thought is and I'm just guessing that would it be at all down to the fact that I have disabled index searching, or even the system restore being on? I'm annoyed at the fact that its taken almost all afternoon to defrag and counting
Cannot Defragment And Restore
Mar 23, 2008I cannot defrag. or restore. The Dell tech. said that he found a few files which cannot be repaired by SFC/Scannow. I told him I probably needed to take it into a PC shop, as he wanted me to reinstall Vista and I don't think I can do that. He said to tell the shop to perform CHKDSK/R. Is this something I can do at home, find and delete corrupt files, without uninstalling and reinstalling Vista? I just used defrag.
View 8 Replies View RelatedManually Or Auto Defragment?
Sep 17, 2009I am using Smart Defrag 1.20. The thing I would like to know is
1. Is it worth having your hard drive auto defragged?, or,
2. To manually defrag the hard drive, once a week?
As I think that running the auto defrag is using a bit to much in resources?
Auto Defragment And Norton 360
Apr 24, 2008I recently upgraded my Norton's Internet Security to Norton 360 - which contains a disk optimizer (defrag). Prior to upgrading Norton my Vista Defrag tool worked fine no problem and always on schedule. After the upgrade to Norton, I was setting up the program and the defrag tool in Norton said "pending" which I left alone, because I was comfortable using the native defrag utility. However, now the vista defrag does not work. I went into the the vista tool to look at the schedule and it gave the last run date ( I had it set to weekly on Wed at 1am).
The next scheduled defrag said "Never" despite the box checked "run automatically". I then unchecked the box and rechecked it, and then it gave the next scheduled date which I changed to that evening. I left it alone until the next morning and it not only did not defag per the schedule but the Vista tool said next scheduled defrag "never" and Norton was back to Pending again. I have to assume this has something to do with Norton. I am told that Norton's defrag tool is tied to Vista's tool.
Automatic Defragment Does Not Occur
Jun 7, 2009I'm running Vista Home Premium. I have the Vista defrag set to go automatically on the first day of each month at 9 PM. The settings are correct on screen. However, it says next scheduled defrag = never, and the automatic defrag does not occur. I have to start it manually each month. I do not know what is wrong, nor how to fix it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDefragment Doesn Working Properly
Nov 25, 2009After functioning properly since I got a new computer with 64-bit Vista nearly a year ago, the defragmenter now does its "spinning" for about 5 minutes and indicates: "Your file system performace can be improved. It is recommended that you defragment now." When I click on "Defragment now..." it spins again for about 5 minutes and repeats the same message. This repeats each time.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAuslogics Registry Defragment And System Restore Just Don't Play Well Together
Apr 22, 2008I know that few of you bother with Restore Points. It's something I play around with for the experience. But I have found out through two reinstalls and more BSODs than I can count that on "my" machine SP1, Auslogics reg. defrag and System Restore just don't play well together! The only way I could get my system to not crash on boot today was to start in safe, uninstall A.R.D. and restore to the only point I had left.
View 9 Replies View RelatedQuicksys Registry Cleaner: Not Recommended To Defragment Registry Across Drives
Feb 27, 2009WARNING: only for advanced users who like to clean the registry. Quicksys regcleaner normally $25 free - only 4hrs left from here: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
Win 7 compatible - have used this and deleted all 1200 entries it found. It makes a backup - been running for several hours and reboots with no probs. Also working fine so far on my Vista x64 and Win 7 x86 installs. After cleaning you need to shut the app. and reopen it for it to find it's backups. (Easy to find them by hand - it can compress them to.7z files, too ). Have used their regdefrag a lot - identical scans and results to the Auslogics and Glary versions- so use whichever defragger you already have. WARNING: not recommended to defrag registry across drives.
"defragment Now" : Started Reduce Speed
Sep 27, 2008I click the "defragment now" and instead of freeing up a few Gbt of HD, I have now 3G Less. As soon as I hit the "defrag now" (I have always had it run as scheduled) , my HD started to reduce by alarming speed before my eyes. The defrag took hours, 4 hours, by the end, i ended up less than 10G, 7 of which came back out of nowhere the next day, but 3 did not. So I did defrag and ended up 3G Less HDS than before.
View 7 Replies View Related"F: Is Not Accesible" After Defragment
Oct 30, 2009To improve my laptop's (ASUS F3Jc - Vista Home Premium) performance, I used chkdsk and defrag on each drive. After I'd used the chkdsk and defrag respectively on my USB HDD (Maxtor 750GB) then I couldn't reach my portable HDD. It says "F: is not accesible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." When I right click to open the properties of the driver, It just shows me an empty HDD with no label. As you can guess there was a huge amount of effort stored in that HDD. How can I recover them? Even though I don't have the secret formula of Coca Cola in that HDD, it matters a lot to me.
View 9 Replies View RelatedDisk Defragmenter: Stopped Defragmenting And The Information Changed To 'Analyzing Disk
Nov 23, 2009Is it normal for Disk Defragmenter to Analyze the disk AFTER it defragments? I know it does it before and then I click 'Defrag Now' and it proceeds to defrag my hard drive. But today I was watching it and noticed that all of a sudden it stopped defragmenting and the info changed to 'Analyzing disk...'.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSafely Remove Hard Disk, Enable Write Cashing On The Disk?
Dec 28, 2008I have four (4) hard disks C: D: E: F: all are connected with sata cable and power cable.(of course) The F: is outside from the pc and connected via external SATA and power cable (like usb NOT usb) I know,with USB external hard disk i can use the safely remove option.
Is there any option to safely remove SATA hard disk without Shut Down the pc?
1) Start-Control Panel-Device Manager-Disk Drives-Right Click on hard disk-Properties-Policies-UntikDisable the Enable write cashing on the disk??
2) Start-Control Panel-Device Manager-Disk Drives-Right Click on hard disk-Disable??
Virtual Disk Programs Made 2 Disk Drives: Delete?
Mar 22, 2008i was messing around with virtual disk programs and made 2 disk drives that are not really there. I can't seem to be able to delete them and its really getting annoying. How can i do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedDisk Cleanup Show Me 257gb Delete 80gb Disk
Apr 9, 2008Is this normal? My disk cleanup shown me a 257GB of files to delete on my 80GB disk. I haven't local network and no external disk. I am using vista home premium with sp1, but this problem was without sp1 too. I attached link (for better understanding) to picture of cleanup.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWindows Disk Fragmenter Easting A LOT Of Disk Space
Jun 17, 2008I am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home premium at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that occassionaly my disk space would drop dramatically without me doing anything. 100s of mbs would just disappear for no reason, so probably being stupid i decided to run the disk fragmenter to try and fix the problem. BUT to my horror i was shocked to find that the disk fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk space big style. I went from 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour. What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space back? i thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer not rob it. does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im kinda desparate, i cant believe it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedRe-partition Disk: Disk Is Split Into 2 Partitions, Vista (C:)
Mar 29, 2008My Disk is split into 2 partitions, Vista (C: ) and Data (E, each is about 70 Gb. I do not use the Data partition. I want to delete it and allow Vista(C to use all 140 Gb. The Help pages suggest that if I delete (or reduce the size of) "Data", the free space becomes unallocated? Can I repartition the disk to allow Vista C: to acces all 140 Gb?
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Jun 20, 2008When I try to open a disk, the driver ejects it and it says please insert a disk into drive. I tried uninstalling and installing the CD RW DRIVER, but it still doesn't work.
View 5 Replies View RelatedStata Disk And Installed Vista Upgrade Top Xp Disk
Mar 13, 2009I need to replace my wife's motherboard, and I am trying to minimize the amount of change. She is currently running XP, but the hardware is old enough that I cannot simply swap the MBs, because a new board will need a different HAL. I was thinking about installing XP and migrating applications. I was wondering what would happen if I cloned her disk to a SATA disk and installed a Vista upgrade on top of the XP disk. I would run setup and provide the appropriate drivers at the F6 prompt. She has used Vista on occasion when we are out-of-town. I have a separate userID on my laptop that is configured to look as much as possible like XP. The question is whether a Vista upgrade would work on top of an XP image that used a lot of older hardware.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSystem Disk Automatically Bumped Disk O Position
Sep 21, 2009I have an HP DV7 notebook that I recently added a second SATA 500 GB hard drive in the expansion bay. The purpose of the drive is to serve as a data drive. I also intend to store an image of my system disk on this internal expansion drive so that I can restore my system and apps when I am in the field. For most purposes the drive seems to be functioning normally. However, I recently noticed that, without my instructions, HP Updates were installing suipport files on my expansion disk rather than on my system disk and I have become concerned that Windows Updates may also end up on the expansion drive (so far they appear not to have done this). On further inspection in Computer Management - Disk Managment I discovered that when I put the expansion drive into the 2nd bay, my original system disk was automatically bumped from the Disk 0 position to the Disk 1 position and my expansion disk became the new Disk 0.
In Computer Managment - Disk Management the system currently looks like
Disk 0 - F: Expansion Drive - Healthy, Primary Partition
Disk 1 - C: - Healthy, System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump,Primary Partition.
If I physically pull out the F: drive from the machine the C: drive returns to the Disk 0 position. I am concerned that my system and application updates are going to get splattered across two drives when I want them to remain on the original C: drive. I can find no way in BIOS or Computer Management - Disk Management to assign the Disk and physically swapping the drives makes the system disk unbootable. Am I at risk of splattering my Window updates across two drives? Should I instruct Vista to regard my system disk C: as Disk 0 and how to I do this?
Can 'cache' The System Disk In A RAM Disk?
Feb 17, 2008I've persuaded my boss that I need 16 gig of RAM. The purpose being, of course, to make Vista fly. Is a RAM disk the best way to do this? Can I 'cache' the system disk in a RAM disk? Or is there a better way to make use of my new endownment.
View 6 Replies View RelatedDisk Partitioning Via Disk Management?
Jun 19, 2009I was under the impression that it was possible to partition a hard disk via Disk Management. I want to split the existing C drive into two drives but when I right click the drive in Disk Management there is no option to do this. Is this not possible in Vista?
View 7 Replies View RelatedDisk Boot Failure "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
May 9, 2009I changed the Boot sequence to CD first, then HDD. Everything ran fine and vista seemingly loaded perfectly. After moving some files from my backup drive back onto my main one and installing some drivers, I was asked to restart my computer (for the drivers) so I did. Remembering that the boot sequence was still set on CD first, and since my driver CD was still in the drive, I decided to set the boot sequence back to the way I had it with XP: HDD and then CD. After doing this I quit BIOS and tried to boot, but I kept getting a message saying: DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
So I restarted the computer again, this time with my Vista CD in the drive, and again, the computer wouldn't boot and told me to enter a boot disk. Not knowing what to do, I went back into BIOS and changed the boot sequence back to CD first, then HD. After doing this, and restarting with the Vista CD in the drive, my computer booted up with no problems whatsoever. I tried reinstalling Vista (twice), reformatting the target hard drive, changing the boot sequence around, pretty much everything I could think of......
Turned It Off The Wrong Way And Now Its Broke: "Disk Boot Failure, Please Insert Boot Disk And Press Enter"
Jul 29, 2009The other night I was in a rush and I held down the power button until it shut off. the next day I tryed turning it on and after the MB homepage came up for 3 secs on the top left hand corner of the screen it said "Disk boot failure, please insert boot disk and press enter" so i fooled around with the priority settings a little bit and nothing worked. I then inserted the windows vista CD and it would say "Loading windows files" then the loading bar came up and it would always freeze at the same point and after about a minute a blue screen came up saying a problem occured and is shutting off the computer to prevent further damage. Iv tryed everything. could my hard drive be damaged or something? Please someone help me. I cant work with much because i cant even get into windows! :-( All i can work with is the Setup menu
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Feb 8, 2009I have an external hard disk where I backup my files and system backups. Yesterday, I purchased a larger external hard disk and want to transfer everything to the new disk. The only command I have noticed is DISKCOPY which might do this. Will this copy everything from the source disk to destination disk? Will the Vista backup directories and shadow (backup) files be copied too? Is there any other tool (preferably freeware) that will do this for me?
View 9 Replies View Related"boot Disk" Or Recovery Disk
Jul 29, 2009When I had XP, I had a startup problem so I rebooted with a Windows XP CD that came with the computer. It fixed it.
I'm not sure if this is called a boot or recovery disk, or both.
I was hoping to make a similar disk for my new Vista (Gateway)computer but I'm not sure how to do it. I read something about an emergency thing that takes up 3 DVDs!