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Hi Bronco, If you click Help then click Drive Map Legend, it will show you what all those colored blocks mean. (You can leave it open while defragging, too) As far as your Auslogics defragmenter, it's the "lite" version ? which is the same as Windows Defragmenter: That's why it's quicker; it doesn't defrag in as much detail as DeFraggler does. And, the size of your drive, space used and free space are important to consider, also. Make sure you first completely clean your drive of all temp, cookies, cache, trash, etc., files first and try Defraggler in SafeMode. You may have to defrag more than once to speed up the time.

Hi Dennis, I did as I said and uninstalled v1.15 and reinstalled v1.12: There were no red blocks. I used the computer for a couple of weeks and Defraggled again: And again, no red blocks. I uninstalled 1.12 and reinstalled 1.15 (I didn't defrag after reinstall) and used the computer for a couple of weeks and reran 1.15. Well, the red blocks showed up again! According to the info in your link, "$BadClus marks the sector as bad. . . it does not mean that the sector is bad, only that the NTFS file system thinks it is." Is there any way to get Defraggler to behave and ignore the $BadClus, or get Windows to "unthink" it's bad?

Hi Jaelani, I'll second that! I know in the previous versions of DF the same block at the beginning of the UI it was blue. Hmmm, maybe I'll uninstall this version and use the previous one and see if makes any difference. I'll post back if it does.

Hi Aethec, It's a brand-new drive. Plus, it works flawlessly ? I have no problems opening, nor running, all my apps. When I formatted the drive, I used the 512 byte cluster size instead of the default 4kb size. Do you think that might be the problem with this drive? I have several other drives with the 512 cluster size and no problems. No. My C partition is 8GB and only 2.5GB are used. Also, my pagefile is on my D partition.

Hi all, I know this has probably been answered before, but I don't know what search term(s) to use. Anyway, I've been using DeFraggler since about two weeks after dirt was invented and I've noticed some discrepancies between hard drives after defrag. The one that has me puzzled is a "new" clean install of XP w\SP2. When I ran DeFraggler there was one red block at the beginning of the GUI window: 4 Files $Boot 1 fragment 8kb $MFT 2 fragments 20,368kb MSTWEB.CAT 1 fragment 8kb $BadClus:$Bad 1 fragment 8,401,963kb Since it's a new drive, I ran CHKDSK anyway. There were no problems or bad anything or recovered anything; according to Event Viewer\Application\Winlogon. Do I have a problem? Why is it showing a Bad Cluster of 8GB? Or am I reading it wrong? Also, what's wrong with the Master File Table? I have other drives I use DeFraggler on and there's no red blocks anywhere. TIA.