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"The external hard drive is connected to my network via a router, no USB. I'm not sure what a NAS is." A NAS is "Network Attached Storage" which it is. I'm not sure if you would be able to defrag it by using software on your pc? Most NAS devices have some type of maintenance UI where you could probably defrag it.

Yes, it is the latest build. I was using 1.13 and the UI wouldn't even start to load, before I posted I noticed 1.14 and now it seems to get a little bit farther (it at least looks like it is trying to load before stopping). The issue only happens with Defraggler. The server has no issues other than extreme fragmentation (the sql server backs up to a files in a shared folder and then deletes the old one and causes the drive to get extremely fragmented very fast, slowing down the backup times) I can do a defrag with Windows built in tools and it does a somewhat better of a job, but if I could do a de-frag whitespace I am sure that it would help the write performance and help from it getting fragmented so quickly.

I have been using defraggler to take care of all my defragmentation needs and I am very pleased with the product. But I can not get it to work on 2 servers. At start up the interface looks like it is going to come up, and then it fails and a Dr. Watson error report comes up asking if I want to send the report to the Microsoft gods. I have attatched a screen shot and a debug log. Random info for troubleshooting? This is on a Dell Power Edge 750. I have the iscsi initiator installed, but there are no connected LUNS. I also have a scsi tape drive hooked up to do the backups. I also have an external USB drive attatched. I am also having trouble running it on another Dell Power Edge 2800 that is my Exchange server (I inherited the server with 4 different mail stores on the same partition that have gotten very fragmented), but I have a feeling that may be related to the size of the files (120GB+). Any help would be much appreciated. defraggler.exe._1_14_159__2009_10_06_10_15_.txt defraggler.exe._1_14_159__2009_10_06_10_15_.txt