Darryl

Very similar issue here as well. After installing MS Office on a fresh (and previously defragged - with Defraggler) Windows XP SP3 installation with all the latest from Windows Update, I tried to defrag with Defraggler. All seemed to go well until reaching 38% completion, then it appears that it was caught in some type of loop of endless defragging attempts, which actually causeed the number of fragmented files to slowly grow continuously. I started and stopped it three times last evening and let it try to defrag all night. I CHKDSK'ed through XP disk management and am defragging with the built-in XP defragger now. Looking forward to any progress you make with this issue. PM me if you feel I can be of more help in identifying the problem. I am not sure if the defrag loop will be replicable for me again.