[$BadClus:$Bad]

I am using defraggler v1.08.132.

 

The partition I am talking about here is 33,6GB. (both MS and Defraggler)

After analyzing a drive, in first block (which is red) there are file called $BadClus:$Bad. According to defraggler, this single file has 2 fragments and it is 35 214 448kB. The drive (partition) has 11% free space...

 

The results of different tests by different disk tools are all saying - no problems found. Neither are there any problems using a disk (this is a system partition - NTFS and Windows XP Home SP3).

 

Why does defraggler identify this file as big as whole partition? What is this file at all?

[Blue Shaded Blocks - 0 Files]

Can give us some more details, such as OS etc. A debug log would be very handy too.

MrRon

 

A debug log of what? Where can I see defraggler log?

 

anyway, this is my system:

OS: Windows XP Home SP3

processor: AMD Sempron 2400+ 1,67 GHz

RAM: 256 MB DDR SDRAM (32MB assigned for video)

 

or if you like in other format (java console log):

 

--------------- S Y S T E M ---------------

 

OS: Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 3

 

CPU:total 1 (1 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 6 model 8 stepping 1, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, mmxext, 3dnow, 3dnowext

 

Memory: 4k page, physical 228848k(73952k free), swap 1263968k(876632k free)

 

vm_info: Java HotSpot Client VM (11.3-b02) for windows-x86 JRE (1.6.0_13-b03), built on Mar 9 2009 01:15:24 by "java_re" with MS VC++ 7.1

 

time: Tue Apr 07 21:07:23 2009

elapsed time: 17852 seconds

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I am having same problem.

First I tought there are some bad sectors on my hard disk, but no programs could identify that.

Seems it is avoiding to store large files in one fragment too. Defraggler placed a 1GB file to the area of those empty blue blocks. There are 34% free space on disk(40GB), but file had 72 fragments after defrag! Any update in this matter coming out soon?