Defraggler, 13% fragmentation remains!

Defraggler
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I think the problem here is the fact that Defraggler can't find enough contiguous free space to defrag your big files.

Please do the following :

  • Move all your big files (i.e. > 1GB) on an external disk
  • Defrag free space allowing fragmentation
  • Do a normal defrag
  • Move your big files back
  • In Defraggler's Options, in the Defrag tab, check the "Move large files to end of drive" checkbox, and select 1024 as the limit.
  • Defrag again.

The last two steps are here to make sure those big, rarely used files (you don't watch all your movies everyday) will not slow your computer down since hard drives are faster at the beginning ;)

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I think the problem here is the fact that Defraggler can't find enough contiguous free space to defrag your big files.

Please do the following :

  • Move all your big files (i.e. > 1GB) on an external disk
  • Defrag free space allowing fragmentation
  • Do a normal defrag
  • Move your big files back
  • In Defraggler's Options, in the Defrag tab, check the "Move large files to end of drive" checkbox, and select 1024 as the limit.
  • Defrag again.

The last two steps are here to make sure those big, rarely used files (you don't watch all your movies everyday) will not slow your computer down since hard drives are faster at the beginning ;)

Thanks.. I will go and try that.. Should I do all of the defragging while in safe mode?

I will let you know how it turns out.

23

If you don't mind having to boot in Safe Mode, yes, it might be a good idea if Defraggler wants to move some system files that are normally locked.

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Please do the following :

  • Hit Windows key + Pause/Break key on your keyboard.
  • Choose "Advanced system settings"
  • Click the button in the "Performance" category
  • In the "Advanced" tab, click the "Change" button
  • Select "No paging file"
  • Click the "Set" button, and click OK
  • Reboot
  • Go back to the dialog you just quit, and chose "Custom size"
  • For both the "Initial size" and "Maximum size", type 1024
  • Click the "Set" button, and click OK
  • Reboot

That will defrag the pagefile.

Then :

  • In the Control Panel, select Power Options
  • In the Hibernate tab, uncheck the Enable Hibernation checkbox.
  • Reboot
  • If you are using a laptop or netbook, enable it again by checking the checkbox mentionned above and rebooting

That will defrag/delete the hiberfile.

Then

That should defrag the rest of the files.

Follow the above procedure BUT change it up alittle

1: disable hibernate and pagefile

reboot

2: run defraggler (thereby defragging only the main system files)

** On a side note, I'll usually shutdown everything running in my system tray, the idea is less running process's = faster defrag, as well as not having to worry about some files not getting defragmented due to being in use. (whether or not this is accurate I can't say for sure, it's just a theory of mine and I do it ...lol)

when defrag is complete enable hibernate and pagefile (your choice on which one you want directly after system files)

reboot

run defraggler and see the results

I did do this, while typing this out on my laptop, defraggler didn't appear to be any slower without the pagefile

results on 24.gb

initial fragmentation Before 49%

fragmentation after 0%

seems to work :)

**EDIT: I just did this on my laptop as well with the same results 0% when complete

I'd like to add (may or may not be relevant to my findings)

under defraggler/settings/options/defrag

I have "move large files to end of drive" and "move only selected files types" both checked with their default settings

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Isn't it bad to defrag too much?